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In the First Circle
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 31 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state - or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps, and almost certain death.
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One of the five finest novels written in the 20th Century
- By Ellis D Vener on 04-08-19
- In the First Circle
- By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Excellent!
Reviewed: 01-28-23
I love Russian authors who are/were willing to tell stories that represented the regime in the light of truth.
The narrator had the perfect voice for this book, albeit lacking what I suppose to be the quality that makes Russian voices recognizable.
The story line was flowing but made effective detours when necessary to enhance the readers knowledge of some person or event.
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The Sugar Men
- By: Ray Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away. For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession - one she has hidden from her family, and about which her heart is torn. Because for all the pain and the cruelty of those terrible years, she harbours sweet memories too, of unexpected friends who risked their own lives in order to save hers.
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Concentration Camp and Lifelong Scars
- By Debbie on 03-07-20
- The Sugar Men
- By: Ray Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
We can never let history die.
Reviewed: 01-06-23
The pain of history comes to life in this story, as well as the joy of life.
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