Lost Pianos Siberia Sunday Times Paperback 2021

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize A criticallyacclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020 Now with colour photography by Michael TurekRichly absorbing... An impressive exploration of Siberias terrifying past. GuardianEvocative and wonderfully original. Colin ThubronSiberias expansive history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote and beautiful landscape are pianos created during the boom years of the nineteenth century. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos made the journey into this snowbound wilderness in the first place is remarkable. That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile landscape feels like a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an absorbing story about a piano hunt a quixotic quest through two centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across an eleventh of the worlds land surface. It reveals not only an unexpected musical legacy, but profound and brave humanity in the last place on earth you might expect to find it. What readers are saying about The Lost Pianos of Siberia You know a books good when, on finishing it, you just want to start again. Beautifully written, full of compelling anecdotes celebrating... | Sophy Roberts The Lost Pianos of Siberia : A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021