The conductor
by Sarah Quigley
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June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. The famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to organize a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, a haunting, defiant new piece that will be relayed by loudspeakers to the front lines.
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Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921, History, Fiction, historical, Saint petersburg (russia), fiction, Fiction, biographical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general| Edition | Availability |
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"Originally published by Random House New Zealand: 2011"--Title page verso.
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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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