Sudhir Jain, "Isolde's Dream" (2007)

Jain Sadhir's "Isolde's Dream" tells the story of the love affair between the – married – composer Richard Wagner and Mathilde Wesendonck, herself a poet and author, as well as the wife of Wagner's Zurich patron Otto Wesendonck. The story is told from Mathilde's perspective.

Before meeting Richard Wagner, the Wesendoncks are told that "he was a member of the group that had tried to overthrow the king of Saxony and was now sheltering in Zurich" (185):