The Noise of Time The Noise of Time

The Noise of Time

A novel

    • 3.9 • 42 Ratings
    • $7.99
    • $7.99

Publisher Description

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending comes an extraordinary fictional portrait of the relentlessly fascinating Russian musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich and a stunning meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society. • “Brilliant…. As elegantly constructed as a concerto.” —NPR

1936: Dmitri Shostakovich, just thirty years old, reckons with the first of three conversations with power that will irrevocably shape his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has suddenly denounced the young composer’s latest opera. Certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), Shostakovich reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, his daughter—all of those hanging in the balance of his fate. And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, he will twice more be swept up by the forces of despotism: coerced into praising the Soviet state at a cultural conference in New York in 1948, and finally bullied into joining the Party in 1960. All the while, he is compelled to constantly weigh the specter of power against the integrity of his music.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
May 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
8.5
MB

Customer Reviews

👊❤️😎🌪 ,

Interesting

I’m going to read my first novel by this author. Looking forward to it.

Strawberryshortcake5476577 ,

The Noise of Time

$12.99 for 224 pages?

More Books Like This

The Man Without Qualities The Man Without Qualities
2012
The Magic Mountain The Magic Mountain
2020
The Gift The Gift
1991
Siegfried Siegfried
2003
Dream of Scipio Dream of Scipio
2002
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay) The Death of Ivan Ilych (Annotated with Biography and Critical Essay)
2011

More Books by Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending The Sense of an Ending
2011
The Only Story The Only Story
2018
Levels of Life Levels of Life
2013
Flaubert's Parrot Flaubert's Parrot
1985
The Man in the Red Coat The Man in the Red Coat
2020
A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
1989

Customers Also Bought

The Innocent The Innocent
1990
Wagnerism Wagnerism
2020
The Children Act The Children Act
2014
The Master The Master
2010
Speak, Memory Speak, Memory
1989
Trio Trio
2021