The conductor

Sarah Quigley

earliest edition we have, 2012 Random House New Zealand, 2017 368 pages

June 1941: Nazi troops surround the city of Leningrad, planning to shell and starve its people into submission. Most of the cultural elite escape, but the famous composer Shostakovich stays behind to defend his city. That winter, the bleakest in Russian history, the Party orders Karl Eliasberg, the shy, difficult conductor of a second-rate orchestra, to prepare for the task of a lifetime: he is to organize a performa...

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Conductor edition · 2017 · Random House New Zealand · 368 pages · 9780143771272
The Conductor edition · 2014 · Harper Perennial · 9781443413107
The conductor edition · 2013 · Head of Zeus · 303 pages · 9781908800428
The conductor edition · 2012 · 303 pages · 9781443413091
The conductor edition · 2012 · Head of Zeus · 303 pages · 9781908800022

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