The conductor
By: Sarah Quigley
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781443413091
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Fiction; Romans, nouvelles; Histoire; Siege of Saint Petersburg (Russia : 1941-1944) fast (OCoLC)fst01354921; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "Originally published by Random House New Zealand: 2011"--Title page verso.