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|author=Julian Barnes
|title=The Noise of Time
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Julian Barnes's first novel since he won the Booker Prize for [[The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes]] is a fictionalised biography of Russian composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906–75). Knowing Barnes's penchant for stylistic experimentation, though, this was never going to be a straightforward, chronological life story. Instead, as Barnes so often does, he sets up a tripartite structure, focussing on three moments in Shostakovich's life when he has a reckoning with Power (always capitalised here). The title phrase helpfully spells out what the book is all about: 'Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.'
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910702609</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Danielle McLaughlin
|summary= This is a beautifully written book, located both in England and Australia, about adulthood, changing responsibilities, and the universal desire for identity and belonging. This theme is also reflected in the search for union and fulfilment in the marriage of Henry and Charlotte, struggling with the changes imposed on them by parenthood and family life across two continents.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472230612</amazonuk>
}}
