The noise of time : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780345816580
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Physical Description:
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xi, 201 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2017.
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General Note: | Originally published: 2016. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Kaslo and District Public Library | AF BAR (Text) | 35134000420139 | Argenta Library (offsite collection) | Not holdable | Onsite consultation | - |
Kitimat Public Library | Bar (Text) | 32665002100644 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Summary:
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 things 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 spectoer of power against the integrity of his music.