The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes

ISBN 10: 1784703338 / ISBN 13: 9781784703332

Published by Random House UK Ltd Jan 2017, 2017

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Neuware -'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE' - OBSERVERIn 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 the Big House ever return.'Stunning' Sunday Times'A profound meditation on power and the relationship of art and power. It is a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding. I don't think Barnes has written a finer, more truthful or more profound book' Scotsman'A tour de force by a master novelist at the top of his game' Daily Express 183 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Noise of Time
• Publisher: Random House UK Ltd Jan 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784703338
• ISBN 13: 9781784703332
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 172W x 112H x 20D millimeters 172 millimeters width by 112 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 132 grams

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Synopsis

'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE' - OBSERVER

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 the Big House ever return.

‘Stunning’ Sunday Times

‘A profound meditation on power and the relationship of art and power… It is a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding… I don’t think Barnes has written a finer, more truthful or more profound book’ Scotsman

‘A tour de force by a master novelist at the top of his game’ Daily Express

About the Author

Julian Barnes is the author of thirteen novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Sunday Times bestsellers The Noise of Time and The Only Story. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and three books of non-fiction, including the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life and Nothing To Be Frightened Of, which won the 2021 Yasnaya Polyana Prize in Russia. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.