Sounded ID: 9781667927374
ISBN: 9781667927374
Publication Date: October 21, 2021
Publisher: Alison Larkin Presents
Language: English
Author Name: Roberta Silman
Narrator Name: Carrington MacDuffie
Berlin.
Wartime.
A city of secrets, secrets that destroyed Paul Bertram’s once-idyllic marriage, secrets that have threatened to consume him, secrets that almost destroyed his very life.
When the Berlin Wall falls in 1989, Paul is finally compelled to confront his past. Seeking one last chance at redemption, he is pulled back to the city where he and his family almost perished.
But how? With whom?
In his anguish Paul turns to his former wife, Eve, and together they embark on a journey they never could have envisioned, a journey during which he is able — at last — to re...
Berlin.
Wartime.
A city of secrets, secrets that destroyed Paul Bertram’s once-idyllic marriage, secrets that have threatened to consume him, secrets that almost destroyed his very life.
When the Berlin Wall falls in 1989, Paul is finally compelled to confront his past. Seeking one last chance at redemption, he is pulled back to the city where he and his family almost perished.
But how? With whom?
In his anguish Paul turns to his former wife, Eve, and together they embark on a journey they never could have envisioned, a journey during which he is able — at last — to reveal the awful truths he has lived with for so long. A journey where she is able to face her own fears and flaws.
In spare, compassionate prose, Roberta Silman has created vivid, resilient characters who learn that friendship and love can also mean humiliation and betrayal, that kind intentions can lead to unimagined evil. Her portrayal of the growing tension and terror in Berlin leading up to and during the Second World War is unforgettable. She not only explores the many twists and turns of fate; she also shows how the atrocities of the Second World War can reverberate far into the future, long after actual events.
Past and present coalesce in this novel in mysterious, yet inexorable ways. As Eve and Paul face who they really were and now are, we see them accepting each other in entirely new ways. Despite the shocking denouement, both Eve and Paul realize that one of the most important aspects of being human is our ability to forgive. Beautifully narrated by award-winning narrator Carrington MacDuffie.
“Silman’s moving, intricate family saga delves into horrific childhood trauma and how it reverberates for years. Readers looking for the intersection of the historical and the personal will be rewarded.”
—Publishers Weekly
"A harrowing story that readers will find compelling to the very end.”
—Starred Review, Kirkus
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0 mins 30 secs |
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29 mins 35 secs |
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11 mins 35 secs |
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26 mins 31 secs |
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9 mins 41 secs |
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14 mins 10 secs |
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33 mins 05 secs |
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25 mins 12 secs |
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18 mins 56 secs |
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34 mins 28 secs |
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30 mins 03 secs |
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41 mins 48 secs |
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20 mins 28 secs |
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26 mins 56 secs |
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36 mins 35 secs |
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36 mins 16 secs |
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34 mins 01 secs |
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16 mins 01 secs |
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57 mins 52 secs |
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21 mins 48 secs |
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20 mins 13 secs |
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16 mins 25 secs |
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24 mins 00 secs |
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0 mins 58 secs |
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