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Edith Eger
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Tovah Feldshuh
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Edith Eger
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author.
Edith Eger was a gymnast and ballerina when she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. There, she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Her heroic actions helped her sister to survive, and her bunkmates to save her life, during a death march, after which she was found in a pile of bodies, barely alive. She recovered and moved to America, going on to become an eminent psychologist, and giving the keynote address at Viktor Frankl's 90th birthday party.
Like Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Dr Edith Eger's important book, The Choice, could change your life. Eger shares stories of the Holocaust and the experiences of her clients, who range from survivors of abuse to soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering. Warm, wise and compassionate, The Choice offers profound insights into the nature of human suffering, and our capacity to heal.
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- HellyBelly
- 07-17-19
Incredible read.
This is one of THE best books I have read in ages. It's not just a biography of survival, it really gives an incredible perspective on trauma, it's impacts and how she personally walked through her own triggers with such courage. Because she is a clinical psychologist she is also able to articulate how our minds are our prisons.
I am SO glad I read it.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-20
life changing is an understatement
This book is incredible it should be a mandatory read and on everyone's set list!
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- Antoinette
- 06-12-20
Wonderful performance
What a beautiful story - one that changes you and leaves you with a wonderful warmth and the knowledge that forgiveness ultimately sets you free!!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-28-21
Power
This is truth revealed in words, not of religion but of learned experience. Choice is certainly a classic I would recommend to anyone who cares for positive living and good success in life.
As a faith based life coach, I couldn't have said it better. Only to add that this was always the Father's will for us, something our fallen evil nature has not and indeed cannot take away from us; the power of the will.
As it is written in the holy writ: "choose this day..."
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- ShelleySkudowitz
- 05-08-19
Life changing
I listened to The Choice a year ago and
remembered it to be life changing
but one forgets.
This time i stopped to make notes, to keep me on track.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-28-21
Life changing book simply powerful
As a brain cancer survivor this was a truly life changing book! Dr Eger’s story is inspiring and so profound!
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- Joanne Ball
- 03-18-23
Exceptional Timeless Message of Hope
This moving and inspiring record of history's most tragic events is a masterpiece. I can't more highly recommend it. Thank you for your bravery, your beautiful vulnerability, your incredible gift, and message of hope. Freedom from prison surely is possible for everyone!
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- Mrs D Sher
- 12-30-18
Most profound book
A recount of a life so well lived
All our lives are stories .. this one stands out ...
A lesson from start to finish ...many lessons
A solution to the troubles of the 21st century - emotionally healthy individuals leads to an emotionally healthy society
Reason for hope thank you Edith Eger
Governments should consult you !
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- lynn madeley
- 06-28-18
Wow
This book is incredible. It creates pictures in your mind of an ordeal that be impossible thanks survive for most. It takes you on a journey that demonstrates throughout how the choices we make make our lives. Brilliant, harrowing at times but brilliant.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-17-22
What an amazing book
A must read!!! Wow I needed to read this how freeing how uplifting how beautiful
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