Only his wits can save him, but they will also plunge him even deeper toward the dark heart of Stalin's Russia. Amid ghostly sonatas, kung-fu tussles, brushes with Chaplin and Rockefeller, a mission to Alcatraz, the novel builds to a crescendo: Termen's spy games fall apart and he is forced to return home, where he's soon consigned to a Siberian gulag. Instead, New York infiltrated Termen he fell in love with the city's dance clubs and speakeasies, with the students learning his strange instrument, and with Clara, a beautiful young violinist. Imprisoned in his cabin, he recalls his early years as a scientist, inventing the theremin and other electric marvels, and the Kremlin's dream that these inventions could be used to infiltrate capitalism itself. On a ship steaming its way from Manhattan back to Leningrad, Lev Termen writes a letter to his ?one true love?, Clara Rockmore, telling her the story of his life. Us Conductors takes us from the glamour of Jazz Age New York to the gulags and science prisons of the Soviet Union. Synopsis: Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize A BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING NOVEL INSPIRED BY THE TRUE LIFE AND LOVES OF THE FAMED RUSSIAN SCIENTIST, INVENTOR AND SPY LEV TERMEN CREATOR OF THE THEREMIN.
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