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Seller: Raven's Roost, Milltimber, United KingdomRaven's Roost
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Fine first British edition, first printing in near fine dust jacket. First published in New Zealand in 2011. Dust jacket with the slightest bit of shelf wear to top edge. Unread. Award winning novel about Leningrad in 1941 and a plan to broadcast a live performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony to the front lines. Received rave reviews and was the bestselling novel in New Zealand in 2011.
Seller Inventory # 000935
- Title
- The Conductor
- Author
- Quigley, Sarah
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus, London
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 190880002X
- ISBN 13
- 9781908800022
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 530 grams
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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.
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