"The Noise of Time" by Julian Barnes It's an account of the life of Dmitri Shostakovitch during the eras of Stalin and Krushchev. It's fantastic at evoking the

"The Noise of Time" by Julian Barnes It's an account of the life of Dmitri Shostakovitch during the eras of Stalin and Krushchev. It's fantastic at evoking the sense of suffocation of living under absolute all-seeing power and the terror found in ordinary life. At one point, Shostakovitch is a weekend away from being taken off and "disappeared", only to find on Monday that the same has happened to his interrogator and he is let off. Highly recommended.