02195cam a2200253 i 4500 PH-MaWHO ost 20241108112741.0 151120s2016 nyu 000 1 eng 9781784703325 DLC eng WPRO Library rda DLC Barnes, Julian. 675162 The noise of time / London : Vintage, 2017. [180] pages ; 20 cm "A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), he reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his children 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, for years to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party, and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music. Barnes elegantly guides us through the trajectory of Shostakovich's career, at the same time illuminating the tumultuous evolution of the Soviet Union. The result is both a stunning portrait of a relentlessly fascinating man and a brilliant meditation on the meaning of art and its place in society"-- Provided by publisher. Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 Fiction. 675163 Composers Soviet Union Fiction. 675164 Nationalism and communism Fiction. 675165 Communism and society History 20th century Fiction. 675166 Soviet Union Politics and government 20th century Fiction. 675167 Biographical fiction. gsafd 674589 Historical fiction. gsafd 674578 17894 17894 0 0 nml 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 0 FIC BARj Noise FIC0095 2024-06-03 00:00:00 0000-00-00 MONO