Maestro and tidldibab

 A novel seven years in the making — about music, memory, and the invisible thread that binds all human voices across time.
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When a dying musician nicknamed Maestro revives a 60,000-year-old flute carved by Neanderthals, he doesn’t just rediscover the sound of our ancestors — he awakens something deeper: the memory of humanity itself.

What begins as a scientific experiment turns into a metaphysical journey through time — from prehistoric caves and Balkan villages to the silence between two breaths.
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Structured like a symphony — Overture, Four Movements, Requiem — the novel weaves together the lives of Maestro, a passionate researcher and musician, and a narrator drawn into his orbit. Their conversations unravel questions that science cannot answer: What does music remember when history forgets? Can art outlast the body?
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Through poetic storytelling, Maestro and Tidldibab bridges archaeology, anthropology, and the art of listening. The flute becomes both evidence and metaphor — proof that creativity is older than civilization, and that the first music humans ever made still resonates within us.
This is a novel for readers who crave beauty anchored in truth — a story of courage, obsession, and the search for perfection, written in the tradition of Sebald, Pamuk, and Eco.
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What Readers Will Find

• A deeply emotional story that fuses human drama with a cultural mystery.

• A rediscovery of the world’s oldest instrument — and what it tells us about who we are.

• A bridge between science and art, history and imagination.

• A reflection on continuity, mortality, and meaning — and the music that connects them.