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The suffering of a sensitive, and diffident man in a totalitarian regime. The musical talent of Dmitri Shostakovich could not find full play under Stalin's regime for one reason, and for quite another reason it was stunted under the freer regime of Nikita Krushchev. This novel is about the sad unraveling of a musical genius who was not allowed to be himself, or left alone against all his desire to be left alone!