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** The Sunday Times Number One bestseller ** A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year 'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVER 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. 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.
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- Title
- The noise of time
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Julian Barnes
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 1784703338
- ISBN13
- 9781784703332
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Music Theme, Politics, 20th century, Gifts for grandpa, British Literature, Literary Fiction, Russia, English Literature, New York, Violence, Fear, Communism, Freedom, Artists, Soviet Union, Persecution, Irony, Music Composers, Dictatorship, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, 1879-1953, Stalinism, Oppression, Dmitri Shostakovich, 1906-1975
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- The Noise of Time
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
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- ** The Sunday Times Number One bestseller ** A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times / New Statesman / Observer Book of the Year 'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVER 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. 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.