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02224aam a2200277Ii 4500 001 0BDD420A6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150909s2016 enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 1910702609 020 $a 9781910702604 035 $a (OCoLC)920736294 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d NLE $d NZWPM $d OCLCO $d ZNS $d OCLCO $d QGK $d COO $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d NLGGC $d OCLCO $d OBE $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-ur--- 100 1 $a Barnes, Julian, $e author. 245 14 $a The noise of time / $c Julian Barnes. 264 1 $a London : $b Jonathan Cape, $c 2016. 300 $a 183 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Shostakovich, Dmitriâ¯Æ¯ Dmitrievich, $d 1906-1975 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Composers $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Soviet Union $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203070334.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0BDD420A6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search