{"product_id":"sixteen-9780998750842","title":"Sixteen","description":"A few hours after the death of Stalin is announced on the radio, spreading panic and bereavement throughout the Soviet Union, Pyotr Rabinovich - Russia's most cherished composer, a famously reclusive man and lifelong Party pet - is found dead on a park bench in the heart of wintry Moscow, the victim of an apparent suicide. At the same time, a recording of his swansong symphony, Sixteen, has been smuggled in an unknown number of copies across several Eastern-bloc borders and is broadcasted nonstop by illegally-operating stations, causing a bizarre, and possibly ruinous, outbreak: the en masse defection of its audience, a rapidly-growing crowd of people who, moments after listening to Rabinovich's parting musical conundrum, drop everything and abandon their homes and homelands in a state of blind frenzy. As the mystery of this widespread wave of civil disobedience threatens to destabilize the orphaned USSR, Alexei Samoilenko, Rabinovich's disciple, prot g , and closest friend, is ordered by the Party to investigate the inexplicable phenomenon, along with what truly lies in the heart of Sixteen - an answer to the riddle of the music's potentially destructive power. Thus begins a quest that will set Alexei on a journey across the continents, in order to trace Rabinovich's steps while he worked, in utter secrecy, on his final work - an adventure which in turn will uncover a deeper mystery that dates from the composer's little-known youth and the bloody days of the Revolution. A playful tale of alternative history, a frantically-paced whodunit and a harrowing fable on the riddle that is music, Sixteen is a story for all the people who would give up their lives for what they hold dear in a heartbeat - an epic lovesong of a book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Etruscan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780998750842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Auguste Corteau","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41521068703925,"sku":"9780998750842","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6e633f3f-e062-4999-869b-15068e3201d5.jpg?v=1641914701","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sixteen-9780998750842","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}