The Phoenix Song

By:

John Sinclair

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Paperback / softback

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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.

Author Biography:

John Sinclair was born in 1962 and lives in Wellington. This is his first novel.

Release date NZ

May 10th, 2012

Author

John Sinclair

Collection

New Zealand

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

383

Dimensions

140x210x33

ISBN-13

9780864738257

Product ID

20835917

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