The Noise Of Time Av Julian Barnes

Barnes's Masterpiece (Observer). In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. <br/> <br/>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. Stunning. (Sunday Times). <br/> <br/>A profound meditation on power and the relationship of art and power...It is a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding...I don't think Barnes has written a finer, more truthful or more profound book. (Scotsman). A tour de force by a master novelist at the top of his game. (Daily Express).