The Noise of Time

By: Julian Barnes

Narrated by: Daniel Philpott

In May 1937, a man in his early 30s 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.

©2016 Julian Barnes (P)2016 W F Howes Ltd

And I'm in a story for our time

Yes I listen to this I heard two themes:
The terrible power of fear,
Resonance with what is starting to happen in America now. Immigrants and Muslims feel it now, and who will be next?
No wasted words in this short book. It is beautifully written and the performance is excellent.
This is creative nonfiction at its best.

The slow destruction of people is so sad.

the magic of Julian Barnes

An amazing bringing to life of a famous (infamous?) personality. The only thing missing is the music.

I loved it!

“The Noise of Time” is a brilliant novel of a gifted composer who lived his entire life in Soviet Russia. The philosophical implications are only undermined by the moral standards of an artist who had to compromise his integrity and sell his soul against his will.
The story reverberates long after it ends. Bravo Mr Barnes!

USA

overwrought

Not an easy read, often tedious and often confusing. throughput the book I kept getting confused about Stalin's state,at one point I believed he was dead only to discover he wasn't. this happened several times! To many digressions and rambling psycho babel. there we're moments of interest to be sure but the style might be more associated by an English major or an academic

Where is the story?

Brilliantly written, this book struggles to keep the reader motivated to read on. The irresolvable tension between the ideal of integrity and courage art should live up to and the reality of the all too human fearfulness of the protagonist cannot be elaborated on for so many pages (or hours of reading) without begging the question: where is the story? The performance of the reader is superb