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The Conductor

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#433846-XZ27
Titel	The Conductor
Auteur	Quigley, Sarah
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Vintage
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	1869795067
ISBN13	9781869795061
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	A best-selling, compelling and evocatively realised novel based on real events and figures. It has now sold into eight different countries around the world. In June 1941, Nazi troops march on Leningrad and surround it. Hitler's plan is to shell, bomb, and starve the city into submission. Most of the cultural elite are evacuated early in the siege, but Dmitri Shostakovich, the most famous composer in Russia, stays on to defend his city, digging ditches and fire-watching. At night he composes a new work. But after Shostakovich and his family are forced to evacuate, only Karl Eliasberg - a shy and difficult man, conductor of the second-rate Radio Orchestra - and an assortment of musicians are left behind in Leningrad to face an unendurable winter and start rehearsing the finished score of Sho... (Lees verder)stakovich's Leningrad Symphony.
Pagina's	303
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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