The Conductor - Couverture souple

Quigley, Sarah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908800038 ISBN 13 : 9781908800039

Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2012

Synopsis

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve the people into submission. Most of the cultural elite is evacuated, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in Russian history, the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to prepare for the task of a lifetime. He is to conduct a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony - a haunting, defiant new piece, which will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines. Eliasberg's musicians are starving, and scarcely have the strength to carry their instruments. But for five freezing months the conductor stubbornly drives on his musicians, depriving those who falter of their bread rations. Slowly the music begins to dissolve the nagging hunger, the exploding streets, the slow deaths... but at what cost? Eliasberg's relationships are strained, obsession takes hold, and his orchestra is growing weaker. Now, it's a struggle not just to perform but to stay alive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Quigley is a New Zealand-born novelist, poet and critic. She has a D.Phil. in Literature from the University of Oxford, and has won several awards for her writing. Since winning the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000, Quigley has been based in Berlin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Head of Zeus
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908800038
• ISBN 13: 9781908800039
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible