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About the Book

‘I come from Leningrad. With my bare hands, I have killed one man. I was born on
August 15, 1896, and at that instant I became an object moving through space toward
you…’
Locked in a cabin, on a ship bound for Leningrad, Lev Termen types a letter to Clara, his
‘one true love’ and remembers his early years as a brilliant young scientist. Inventor of
the ethereal, musical theremin, Termen performed in the gilded concert halls of Russia
and Europe to rapturous applause. The toast of the Soviet Union, he was sent to New
York with a plan to infiltrate capitalism itself, to win its heart and capture its secrets.
But instead, Manhattan infiltrates Termen and in the city of dreams he rubs shoulders
with Gershwin and Rachmaninoff, the Rockefellers and the Astors, Charlie Chaplin and
Glenn Miller, and dances night after night with the beautiful young violinist Clara
Rockmore. But when his spy games fall apart and he is forced to return home, he finds
the Motherland not quite as he left it.
Exiled to a Siberian Gulag, with nothing but his wits to keep him alive, Termen is drawn
ever deeper into the labyrinth of Stalin’s Russia, where only his feelings for Clara,
passing through the ether like the theremin’s song, seem to show a way out.
Sales and Marketing Highlights
A captivating cross between Any Human Heart and The Amazing Adventures
of Kavalier & Clay, Us Conductors is a powerful tale of love and science
sweeping across continents and generations
Us Conductors is only the second debut to win the prestigious Giller Prize,
Canada’s Booker. As well as being a Canadian bestseller before the Giller,
the book has garnered prizes and praise both there and in the US, being
picked by a number of publications as one of their best books of 2014

About the Author

Montreal’s Sean Michaels is a writer, critic and founder of the pioneering music blog ‘Said the Gramophone’. Born in Stirling, Scotland, in 1982, he has toured with rock bands, scoured the Paris catacombs and contributed to publications including the Guardian, McSweeney’s, Pitchfork and Plan B.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781408868676
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Depth: 22
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1408868679
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Weight: 381 gr

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