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June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. Most of the cultural elite escape, 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 organize a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony.
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5 editions- Other · English · 2017ConductorRandom House New Zealand · 368 pages · 9780143771272
- Other · English · 2014Harper Perennial · 9781443413107
- Other · English · 2013Head of Zeus · 303 pages · 9781908800428
- Other · English · 2012303 pages · 9781443413091
- Other · English · 2012Head of Zeus · 303 pages · 9781908800022
FictionRomans, nouvellesHistoireHistoryFiction, historicalSaint petersburg (russia), fictionFiction, biographicalWorld war, 1939-1945, fiction