Phoenix Song, The

Phoenix Song, The
John Sinclair
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Paperback
h210 x 140mm - 383pg
1 Oct 2012 NZ
Locally sourced in NZ eta 5-15 days
9780864738257
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A sweeping historical novel set in mid-twentieth-century China, about a young violin prodigy growing 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 transcendant and tragic, and encounters the compromises that talent, fate and family force upon her.
John Sinclair was born in 1962 and lives in Wellington. This is his first novel.
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ISBN-13: 9780864738257
Published: 1 Oct 2012
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Victoria University Press
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 383
Dewey: 823.3

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