“The book's richness is in its tangents… wonderful book.” - The Financial Times
“An exploration of tragic echoes, harmonious transience and persistent mysteries at the edges of the world.” - The Times Literary Supplement 'An absolutely extraordinary and unique book' - Diário de Notícias, Portugal “A book that surpasses many a novel in terms of bizarre and surprising turns. ” - Der Bund, Switzerland This is a wonderful book.” - Sunday Times “The joy of this book lies in the contrast that exists between an icy backdrop and what a grand piano implies.” - Le Figaro, France These pages sing like a symphony.” - Wall Street Journal “ The Lost Pianos of Siberia, Sophy Roberts's melodious first book, reveals a story inextricably linked to the drama of Russia itself. It survives in the pianos that everyday people have done everything to protect. Belief in music's comfort survives in muffled notes from broken hammers, in beautiful harmonies describing unspeakable things that words can't touch. Yet there are also pianos that have managed to withstand the furtive cold forever trying to creep into their strings.
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Often all that is left of a piano's backstory can be gleaned from the serial number hidden inside an instrument - stories that reach back through more than two hundred years of Russian history. Then with the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, numerous instruments were left to rot when funding ran out. Piano culture continued to thrive after the Second World War. They were brought by governors, exiles and adventurers before the roads and railways opened up Siberia at the turn of the twentieth century.Īfter the 1917 Revolution, pianos were again distributed all over Siberia, benefitting Russians who had never before had access to a musical education.
But scattered through this expanse are extraordinary pianos. This story has been updated with further information.Siberia may be a vast, hostile landscape with a bloody past. Might be worth a go-the more we show GR we're aware of it, the faster it'll be fixed.- Helen Corcoran June 10, 2021 Within a few hours, my ratings were back to normal. While the issue continues to persists, some authors have reported success in having their ratings and reviews reinstated on Goodreads after contacting the company.Īuthors, I contacted GR through their form with my book link and politely asked what was going on. This is a priority for the team and we are focused on resolving this as quickly as possible." In an email to PW, a representative of Goodreads said that the site is "currently experiencing technical issues in how the stats about overall ratings and reviews show on a book page," stressing that "no reviews or ratings have been deleted." The representative added: "Our team is actively working on a fix for this and stats should repopulate shortly. The bug will likely prove especially harmful, at least in the short term, to authors with books that have just recently been released and have fewer ratings. Losing reviews skews a book’s rating, and, as a result, places an entirely different emphasis on the book’s implied quality. Authors took to Twitter with their worries, because for authors, the loss of reviews and ratings is no minor issue, as the platform is a powerful tool for book discoverability and promotion. The number of ratings per book lost seem, without any further information, to be random.
It’s unknown how many books are affected by the bug. “While there’s no confirmed fix date yet to share,” the email read, “this bug is prioritized in our development team’s backlog-we hope to fix this soon.” Authors who filed a complaint with Goodreads, which was acquired by Amazon in 2013, have received a statement from the “Goodreads Experts Team,” which said that it is aware of the issue and working on a fix.
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