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The latest novel from the acclaimed author of }Flaubert's Parrot, Arthur & George{ and }The Sense Of An Ending{, which won the Man Booker Prize. Begins in 1937 in Leningrad as a man expects to be taken away to the Big House, from where few return. A story about the collision of Art and Power, and human compromise
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
