The Noise of Time
Descriere: 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.
Page dim. 198 x 135 x 14
Weight: 168 grams
Autori: Barnes Julian | Editura: Vintage Publishing | Anul aparitiei: 2017 | ISBN: 9781784703325 | Numar de pagini: 192 | Categorie: Fiction
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