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The Noise of Time

97 Ratings

4.1

Duration
5H 41min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

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 ever return.

© 2016 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781510022201

Release date

Audiobook: 28 January 2016

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