Client: Pegasus Books
Added: September 09, 2008
Updated: June 28, 2010
Views: 1370
Discipline: Book Cover Design
Tags: book cover, book design, dust jacket
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Description:
Jacketed Hardcover // Nonfiction
by Greg Dawson // Pegasus Books
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Girl Photo: Jaqueline Butler, Millenium Images
Page 1: Approved Cover
Page 2: Alternate Comp
Synopsis: Zhanna, a spunky young Jewish girl from the Ukraine, is a gifted piano prodigy--she was giving concerts by the age of six. When the Nazis invade her hometown and her family is condemned to exile and execution in the killing fields of Drobitsky Yar, Zhanna manages to escape the death march and uses her rare musical gift to help her survive. Performing for the occupying Nazi troops, and never unaware of the cruel irony of her situation, Zhanna keeps her true identity a secret until a young American soldier with ties to Julliard adopts her. Upon her emigration to America, Zhanna’s gift flourishes and she becomes one of the first Jewish refugees to enter Juilliard.
greg dawson said on November 18, 2008
Nate - a great leap of imagination; a real touch of genius in showing only the lower face. thank you - Greg Dawson (the author)
The Book Designers, Ian Shimkoviak & Alan Hebel said on February 11, 2009
Great cover. The alternate is a wonderful design but a tad like it's trying to be silly. Really wonderful work through and through...
Nate Salciccioli said on February 11, 2009
Thanks, Ian. Now that I look back at the other design, I tend to agree with you...this book is more a biopic than the alternate cover would suggest, and is very much about it's human characters, and not necessarily the music aspect.
Niall O'Leary said on September 25, 2008