Noise of the era

Author Name: Julian Barnes

The year is 1937, and a man in his early thirties is waiting for the elevator next to his apartment door. He waits all night, believing that he will be arrested at any moment and taken to the "Big House," the house from which no one has ever entered or left. This is the first of three "conversations" that took place between Dmitri and the authorities. Stalin heard one of his pieces, did not like its performance, and condemned it to misery through the official gazette. Thus, his life changed forever. A literary masterpiece that addresses the struggle between the famous Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and the party authority in its attempts to co-opt and reshape creativity to suit the politician and his tastes. "The Noise of the Age" deeply contemplates the relationship between the arts and power and how they can live together... Can they?