The Noise of Time

By: Julian Barnes

Narrated by: Daniel Philpott

In May 1937, a man in his early 30s waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now, and few who are taken to the Big House ever return.

©2016 Julian Barnes (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd

And I'm in a story for our time

Yes I listen to this I heard two themes:
The terrible power of fear,
Resonance with what is starting to happen in America now. Immigrants and Muslims feel it now, and who will be next?
No wasted words in this short book. It is beautifully written and the performance is excellent.
This is creative nonfiction at its best.

The slow destruction of people is so sad.

the magic of Julian Barnes

An amazing bringing to life of a famous (infamous?) personality. The only thing missing is the music.

I loved it!

“The Noise of Time” is a brilliant novel of a gifted composer who lived his entire life in Soviet Russia. The philosophical implications are only undermined by the moral standards of an artist who had to compromise his integrity and sell his soul against his will.
The story reverberates long after it ends. Bravo Mr Barnes!

USA

But remember, it's fiction!

Tight, wonderfully crafted story of life under Stalin and Kruschev. Love the clarity of Barnes' language and his characters.

Excellent novel shedding light on an amazing life

As a huge Shostakovich fan, it was very interesting to liste to this docu-fiction about an amazing life.
Highly recommended. For anybody enjoying this composer's music, it will shed some light on some obscure slices of life.
For those who don't know him, it still sheds some light about a time period of History hard to believe was actually true for many citizens in the USSR.