The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes

ISBN 10: 1510025057 ISBN 13: 9781510025059

Casa editrice: Whole Story Audio Books, 2016

Riassunto

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 ever return.

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Recensione:

"Densely written, masterfully told tale." (Esquire)

"Moving and often genuinely tense." (Reader's Digest)

"Disturbing, darkly comical and an ideal intellectual palate-cleanser to kick off the new year." (Saga Magazine) --Reviews

Undoubtedly one of Barnes s best novels, and a great way to start the literary year." (Sunday Times) --Reviews

"A new, short, highly concentrated novel...meditating in brief paragraphs on the art and compromise with power over 50 years in the life of the composer Shostakovich." (David Sexton Evening Standard) --Reviews

L'autore:

Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, Cross Channel, The Lemon Table and Pulse; four collections of essays; and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Levels of Life. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Whole Story Audio Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1510025057
• ISBN 13: 9781510025059
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Numero di pagine: 5