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  • Kingdom of Twilight

  • By: Steven Uhly
  • Narrated by: Peter Noble
  • Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Kingdom of Twilight

By: Steven Uhly
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Publisher's summary

One night in autumn 1944, a gunshot echoes through the alleyways of a small town in occupied Poland. An SS officer is shot dead by a young Polish Jew, Margarita Ejzenstain. In retaliation, his commander orders the execution of 37 Poles - one for every year of the dead man's life. First hidden by a sympathetic German couple, Margarita must then flee the brutal advance of the Soviet army with her newborn baby.

So begins a thrilling panorama of intermingled destinies and events that reverberate from that single act of defiance. Kingdom of Twilight follows the lives of Jewish refugees and a German family resettled from Bukovina, as well as a former SS officer, chronicling the geographical and psychological dislocation generated by war. A quest for identity and truth takes them from refugee camps to Lübeck, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York, as they try to make sense of a changed world, and of their place in it.

Hypnotically lyrical and intensely moving, Steven Uhly's epic novel is a finely nuanced yet shattering exploration of universal themes: love, hatred, doubt, survival, guilt, humanity, and redemption.

©2018 Steven Uhly (P)2018 Hachette Audio
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Critic reviews

"One of the most important and powerful novels of recent German literature." ( Deutschlandradio Kultur)
"A novel about the aftermath of the war, the tribulations of uneasy peace and the violent birth of Israel... Kingdom of Twilight is powerful and original." (Antonia Senior, The Times)
"Uhly skillfully unrolls an epic canvas yet rarely loses sight of the individual details that bring his characters to life." (Nick Rennison, Sunday Times)

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