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The noise of time

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The noise of time
9.99 €
For the first time in Russian, the newest work by Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes, author of such international bestsellers as England, England, Flaubert's Parrot, Love and So On, The Foreboding of the End, and many others. This time "unequivocally the most elegant stylist and the most unpredictable master of all conceivable literary forms" turns to the life of Dmitri Shostakovich, and in an anniversary year: in September 2016 the whole world will celebrate 110 years since the birth of the great Russian composer. However, writing a fiction biography is the least of Barnes's worries, and he aims much higher: having as an artist a license for any fantasy, in love with Russian literature and having an excellent grasp of the context, he builds his construction on the shaky ground of Soviet history, full of silences and half-truths....
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