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What happens when the dream of your life no longer belongs to you?

Daniel learnt to play the piano before he understood that talent could also become a debt.

As a child, music was a refuge. Something intimate, free and almost secret. But when he enters the conservatoire, everything changes: extreme discipline, comparisons, competitions, ruthless teachers, and one unquestioned belief - if he has talent, then he has to go far.

Very far.

For years, Daniel has carried one goal that is both a dream and a sentence: to reach the Chopin Competition in Warsaw and prove that every sacrifice has been worth it.

As he struggles to become the person everyone expects him to be, cracks begin to appear in his life. Anxiety. Back pain. Insomnia. Precarious jobs. Relationships under strain. Friendships poisoned by ambition. Teachers who mistake cruelty for excellence. Brilliant rivals who are hiding fears of their own.

And, above all, a family that wants the best for him, even if they do not always know the difference between supporting him and choosing his life for him.

Over the years, Daniel will travel, fall in love, spend time abroad on Erasmus, enter competitions, take jobs he never imagined himself doing, and meet musicians who have walked away from success as well as others still chasing a career they are no longer sure they want. He will also discover that some of the people who appear most certain are just as lost as he is.

Then something unexpected happens.

An imperfect performance begins to spread online.

Daniel hates it.

To him, it is full of mistakes.

To everyone else, it contains something true.

And for the first time, he is forced to confront a question far more difficult than any exam, audition or competition:

Does he really want to become the pianist everyone expects him to be... or has he spent years simply trying not to disappoint anyone?

Off the Programme is a realistic novel about the price of talent, the obsession with excellence, anxiety, family, friendship, love and the fear of choosing a different life.

A story about musicians, yes.

But above all, a story for anyone who has ever confused what they truly wanted with what other people expected of them.

Because sometimes leaving the path that was planned for you does not mean failing.
Sometimes it means finally beginning to live.

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• Plný název: Off the programme
• Autor: Sergio Sánchez Herrero, Sergio Sánchez Herrero
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 240
• EAN: 9798191503387
• ID: 53492924
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 328 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Datum vydání: 08. August 2026

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