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ISBN: 9780143771272
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2017
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE NZ
Pages: 368
Description:
A best-selling, compelling and evocatively realised novel based on real events and figures. It has now sold into eight different countries around the world.
In June 1941, Nazi troops march on Leningrad and surround it. Hitler's plan is to shell, bomb, and starve the city into submission. Most of the cultural elite are evacuated early in the siege, but Dmitri Shostakovich, the most famous composer in Russia, stays on to defend his city, digging ditches and fire-watching. At night he composes a new work.
But after Shostakovich and his family are forced to evacuate, only Karl Eliasberg - a shy and difficult man, conductor of the second-rate Radio Orchestra - and an assortment of musicians are left behind in Leningrad to face an unendurable winter and start rehearsing the finished score of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
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ISBN: 9780143771272
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2017
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE NZ
Pages: 368
Description:
A best-selling, compelling and evocatively realised novel based on real events and figures. It has now sold into eight different countries around the world.
In June 1941, Nazi troops march on Leningrad and surround it. Hitler's plan is to shell, bomb, and starve the city into submission. Most of the cultural elite are evacuated early in the siege, but Dmitri Shostakovich, the most famous composer in Russia, stays on to defend his city, digging ditches and fire-watching. At night he composes a new work.
But after Shostakovich and his family are forced to evacuate, only Karl Eliasberg - a shy and difficult man, conductor of the second-rate Radio Orchestra - and an assortment of musicians are left behind in Leningrad to face an unendurable winter and start rehearsing the finished score of Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
This product has FREE shipping however combined shipping for other products is not available with this item. Please allow up to 10 days for shipping.
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