Title: The Magic String of Frankie
Presto
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: November 10, 2015
Pages: 512p
ISBN: 9780062294418
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“Everyone joins a band in this life. You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a founding member, and if he surfaces one day, you will have to make a room for him. As life goes on, you will join other bands, some through friendship, some through romance, some through neighbourhoods, school and army. Maybe you will all dress the same, or laugh at your own private vocabulary. Maybe you will flop on couches backstage, or share a boardroom table, or crowd around a gallery inside a ship. But in each band you join, you will play a distinct part, and it will affect you as much as you affect it” – p19
Musik
menceritakan kisah ini. Musik memberikan dirinya kepada Frankie Presto dan
melihat perkembangan dirinya lewat hidup Frankie Presto. Albom tidak pernah
jauh-jauh dari kematian, seperti bukunya yang lain, Albom pun berangkat dari
kematian. Frankie Presto meninggal diawal buku, lalu Albom, lewat kata-kata
Musik membawa pembaca menyimak perjalanan hidup Frankie Presto, sejak ia
dilahirkan sampai ia mencapai usia tua, maju dan mundur, pembaca perlu mengikuti
plot yang dibangun oleh Albom. Fransisco Tarrega dan karyanya Lagrima menjadi
perkenalan pertama Frankie Presto dengan musik meskipun ia belum bisa mengingat
setiap melodinya. Carmencita humming
Lagrima disela-sela napas terakhirnya ketika melahirkan Frankie Presto didalam
tekanan Gereja yang sedang dibakar dan disaksikan oleh seorang suster yang
kemudian ia percayai untuk menjaga anaknya.