A young violin prodigy grows up in Harbin and Shanghai amidst the absurd and often deadly politics of mid-century China. Under the dual influences of her revolutionary parents and the White Russian intellectuals who are her tutors (and who provide her with a link, personal and tragic, to the composer Dmitri Shostakovich) she is drawn into a precarious world of ideology and espionage where music must serve not only ‘the masses’, but also the unpredictable whims and grand strategies of great leaders. Moving between China, Europe and New Zealand, the young protagonist learns how music and its artefacts link individuals across time in a chain alternately transcendent and tragic, and encounters the compromises that talent, fate and family force upon her.
John Sinclair
Phoenix Song [EPUB ebook]
Phoenix Song [EPUB ebook]
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 383 ● ISBN 9780864738745 ● Editorial Victoria University Press ● Publicado 2013 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5851368 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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