The Phoenix Song - Brossura

Sinclair, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0864738250 ISBN 13: 9780864738257

Casa editrice: Victoria Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

A young violin prodigy grows up in Harbin and Shanghai amidst the absurd and often deadly politics of mid-century China. Under the dual influences of her revolutionary parents and her White Russian intellectual tutors (who provide her with a link—personal and tragic—to the composer Dmitri Shostakovich), she is drawn into a precarious world of ideology and espionage where music must serve not only “the masses,” but also the unpredictable whims and grand strategies of great leaders. Moving between China, Europe, and New Zealand, the young protagonist learns how music and its artifacts link individuals across time in a chain alternately transcendent and tragic. She also encounters the compromises that talent, fate, and family force upon her.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

John Sinclair has worked as a political speechwriter, a treasury official, and roving public policy consultant. He is a former visiting fellow at the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences in Harbin, China.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Victoria Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0864738250
• ISBN 13: 9780864738257
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 383