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"A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Julian Barnes
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 183
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage Books, Vintage
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101971185
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“All he knew was that this was the worst time.”
Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book *The Sense of an Ending* (2011). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. - Wikipedia
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