Us Conductors

Winner of Canada's Booker, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, 'Us Conductors' is a hauntingly beautiful novel of longing and electricity that tells the true story of Russian inventor and spy Lev Termen. Locked in a cabin, on a ship bound for Leningrad, Termen types a letter to Clara, his 'one true love' and remembers his early years as a brilliant young scientist. Inventor of the ethereal, musicial 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...