The Noise of Time
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Compact discs.
Narrated by Daniel Philpott.
Russian composer Dmitri 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.
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PUBLISHED
Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by Recorded Books, p2016.
Year Published: 2016
Description: 5 sound discs (330 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781501936807
1501936808
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Philpott, Daniel.
W.F. Howes, Ltd.
Recorded Books, Inc.
SUBJECTS
Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, -- 1906-1975 -- Fiction.
Composers -- Soviet Union -- Fiction.
Nationalism and communism -- Fiction.
Communism and society -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.