The Noise of Time
“[An] ambitious Orwellian allegory about the plight of artists in totalitarian societies—and a Kafkaesque parable about a fearful man’s efforts to wrestle with a surreal reality, even as he questions his complicity with the system. . . . Barnes’s book internalizes these debates, turning them into conversations within Shostakovich’s own head. On one hand, defending […]
The Sense of an Ending
“Elegant, playful, and remarkable.†—The New Yorker
Arthur & George
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. As all Sherlockians know, in 1906 Arthur Conan Doyle took on the case of George Edalji, a reserved young lawyer, half Scottish and half Indian, who was wrongly accused of mutilating animals?and in the process helped set up Britain's Court of Appeals. Perhaps it is not so surprising that the […]