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Maestro and tidldibab
Maestro and Tidldibab is a novel seven years in the making — a story of perseverance, doubt, and the search for the perfect tone.
Although the manuscript was almost finished after three years, the author kept returning to it, again and again.
Only after 2025, when she began competing in cycling marathons and achieved 2nd and 4th places in international races, did she find the inner strength to complete the book.
As in sport, so in writing — perseverance is what truly matters.
About the book
A novel seven years in the making — about music, memory, and the invisible thread that binds all human voices across time.
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.
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?
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.
What Readers Will Find
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A deeply emotional story that fuses human drama with a cultural mystery.
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A rediscovery of the world’s oldest instrument — and what it tells us about who we are.
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A bridge between science and art, history and imagination.
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A reflection on continuity, mortality, and meaning — and the music that connects them.
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