Paperback edition of the latest novel from the acclaimed author who won the Man Booker Prize for }The Sense Of An Ending{. Reimagines the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich as he struggles to adapt to life under Stalin, and avoid being deonounced by the state. 'Undoubtedly one of Barnes's best novels,' }Sunday Times 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. 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.
