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Author: Barnes, Julian
Russia
Published on 5 January 2017 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 192 pages
198 x 135 x 14 | 156g
'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE' - OBSERVERIn 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. 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 TimesA profound meditation on power and the relationship of art and power It is a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding I dont think Barnes has written a finer, more truthful or more profound book ScotsmanA tour de force by a master novelist at the top of his game Daily Express
