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Introduction to Keller, the first music lesson. Initial meeting between Paul Crabbe and Eduard Keller.
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Paul is annoyed that he is not allowed to play anything. Keller’s teaching methods are quite bizarre.
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Paul is getting increasingly frustrated with Keller’s teaching,
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Paul falls in love with Megan Murray. His interest in Megan is sexual.
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Keller goes to dinner at their house to celebrate Paul's A+ result on the piano exam. Everyone praises Paul except for Keller.
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Paul and his parents go to Adelaide for a vacation. Paul visits the library to look up information on Keller and witnesses a couple having sex in the library stacks.
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Rosie Zolla moves to Darwin and is attracted to Paul.
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Paul’s parents organise a performance by the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra. Keller arrives very drunk . Rosie sits with Paul and during the performance they become aware of their mutual sexual attraction.
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Paul makes love to Megan Murray who he finds limited as a partner. He then makes love to Rosie starting a lifelong passionate relationship.
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Keller enters him in a piano competition. Keller goes with him as his accompanist.
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Keller and Paul have returned to Darwin. Keller has started drinking again and Paul decides what to do after he leaves school.
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Paul searches for the real Keller. While travelling in Austria, Paul remembers the last conversation with Keller and begins to piece together the fragments of Keller’s life.
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Henisch tells Paul that Keller played for the Nazis in 1938 and what happened to Mathilde and Eric. He believes Keller is dead because he was imprisoned in Auschwitz.
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Paul sits with the dying Keller. The novel ends with a nostalgic yearning for the past.