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Remote Sympathy
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson, Sophie Roberts, Mark Elstob
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn't nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind and life in Buchenwald would appear to be idyllic. Lying just beyond the forest that surrounds them is the looming presence of a work camp. Frau Hahn's husband, SS SturmbannfUhrer Dietrich Hahn, has been assigned as the camp's administrator.
When Frau Hahn's poor health leads her into an unlikely and poignant friendship with one of Buchenwald's prisoners, Dr Lenard Weber, her naIve ignorance about what is going on so nearby is challenged. A decade earlier, Dr Weber had invented a machine believed that its subtle resonances might cure cancer. But does it really work? One way or another, it might save a life.
A tour de force about the evils of obliviousness, Remote Sympathy compels us to question our continuing and wilful ability to look the other way in a world that is in thrall to the idea that everything—even facts and morals—is relative.
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- kls
- 23-09-23
Harrowing
Harrowing but not over sentimental
Narrated well
Told from multiple points of view
Highly recommend
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- Kirsty
- 09-02-23
Beautifully realised and compelling
Historical fiction at its finest. Inventively told through intertwining narratives. As heartbreaking and harrowing as it is sensitive. Laboriously researched, by all accounts it does justice to one of the darkest periods of Western Twentieth century history. It will stay with me.
Narration is also excellent.
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- Michaela Anchan
- 12-12-22
Excellent and engrossing audiobook.
Really recommend. The narration was quite slow and I could listen to it comfortably at 1.4 speed which shortened the book considerably! An engrossing, beautiful, awful, devastating book with depth and emotion. We must continue to read and learn about these stories. It can’t be forgotten.
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