The Conductor

Author: Sarah Quigley

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Price : $39.99 NZD
ISBN : 9781869795061
Publisher : Random House
Imprint : Vintage
Contained items : Audio CD
Weight (g) : 0.432
Publication date : 01 March 2011
Dimensions : 325mm x 155mm
Produced in : New Zealand
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Dewey classification : 823.2
Reading Level : Very Good
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Description

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 Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.

Awards

Winner of Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award 2012.

Author description

Sarah Quigley is a fiction writer, poet, non-fiction writer and reviewer. She has received and been short-listed for several high profile awards and has been published in anthologies in New Zealand and the UK. Having been the recipient of the Berlin Writers' Residency, she now lives in Berlin.