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Julian Barnes - The Noise of Time (2nd Hand Softback)
ISBN / GTIN-13 : 9781784703325
Synopsis
. . . In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return . . .
So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.
The Noise of Time is a profound and impressive novel about Soviet composer Dimitri Shostakovich's life under communism in the USSR. Relying on source material from a number of biographies and memoirs about him, author Julian Barnes has written a sombre, serious book about how the composer coped with living under totalitarian terror and how he wrestled with his conscience as he tried to keep his Marxist Leninist political masters happy while being true to his art.
This is a story about the collision of Art and Power, about human compromise, human cowardice and human courage, it is the work of a true master.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Softback with French Fold Sleeves
- Condition : Very Good
- Category : Fiction - Modern Classics
- Published : 2016 (This Edition 2017 - Vintage)
- ISBN : 9781784703325
- SKU : B003281
- PPC : SP300gm
- RRP : £7.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
‘Stunning’ - Sunday Times.
‘A profound meditation on power and the relationship of art and power. It is a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding . . . I don’t think Barnes has written a finer, more truthful or more profound book’ - The Scotsman.
‘A tour de force by a master novelist at the top of his game’ - Daily Express.
'The skilled novelist here brings alive not just the political turmoil that surrounded Shostakovich, but his love for his wives, his love for his children, a vivid counterpoint of artistic freedom and political oppression - the eloquent conjuring of one glass of vodka clinking against another.' - The Economist.
'A great novel, Barnes’s masterpiece . . . Exquisite, intimate detail. He has given us a novel that is powerfully affecting, a condensed masterpiece that traces the lifelong battle of one man’s conscience, one man’s art, with the insupportable exigencies of totalitarianism.' - Alex Preston, The Observer.
The Author
Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, including Metroland, Flaubert's Parrot, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters, England, England and Arthur and George, and two collections of short stories, Cross Channel and The Lemon Table.
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