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Title: The Listener
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Shira Nayman
Narrator: Jefferson Mays
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-16-10
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Critically acclaimed author Shira Nayman has been praised by School Library Journal for her breathtaking storytelling and her ability to write with stunning clarity. Naymans debut novel, The Listener is a tale of madness and passion set in a psychiatric hospital just after the end of WWII.
Members Reviews:
A remarkable look into the human condition...
Nayman's grasp of the human condition is overwhelming. In "The Listener," a psychiatrist, his nurses, and the soldiers they treat, are forever scarred physically and emotionally. Each character must examine a world they would rather forget. A world embattled by personal loss, World War II, and their roles - real and imagined - in the Holocaust. Nayman is expert in how she depicts these horrors, and the impact upon the psyches of individuals and their relationships. In another of her books, "Awake in the Dark: Stories," she uses each character's nightmares, horrifying realities, and insecurities to examine their lives, and the lives of their loved ones. Another example of a book that digs deeply into the emotional impact of the Holocaust is Jerry Marcus'Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Zev, which examines the Holocaust from another perspective - from the responsibilities and decisions made by someone who did not personally experience these tragedies, but is haunted by them nonetheless. For both Nayman and Marcus' characters, no one really escapes - not those who lived through it, not their friends and lovers, and not those of a later generation whose heritages are forever intertwined with history.
What an interesting book!
It's been a good while since I read this book, but it is definitely one worth reading. It was interesting and kept me reading. I would recommend this book.
Worst book I have ever read
One of the worst books I have ever read! The writing was poor, the characters were detestable, there wasn't a story to be found. I absolutely hated this book.
Just Couldn't Finish
Tossing a book on your DNF pile after 191 page is akin to giving up on a 20 year marriage. On the one had, you've already been through so much with the book that it's a shame
to give up on it within 100ish pages of the end. On the other, there's no point in losing any more of your life to the book if you're not happy. Sadly, but not regretfully, I decided to divorce myself from Shira Nayman's novel about a the lead doctor at a mental institution in post WWII New York and an odd patient who seems to know so much about him and one of his former patients.
I had high hopes for the book. It caught my eye in a copy of BookPage. I love to read Gothic fiction, and what's more Gothic than an insane asylum - well, other than a spooky British mansion? I didn't have any expectations that it would be as wonderful as Patrick McGrath's Asylum, but I was expecting it to be interesting. I found this book rather boring. Even the scenes where Dr. Harrison is spying on others having sex weren't enough to make me want to continue. I'm sure that it was headed somewhere, but I just didn't care.
I am still on the search for a new fabulous Gothic read. I think Kate Morton might be my next best choice. In the meantime, I cannot recommend The Listener.
A deep undertow in a dazzlingly literate sea.....
Shira Nayman is a brilliant and impassioned explorer of the bright darkness within.
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Title: The Listener
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Shira Nayman
Narrator: Jefferson Mays
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-16-10
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 15 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Critically acclaimed author Shira Nayman has been praised by School Library Journal for her breathtaking storytelling and her ability to write with stunning clarity. Naymans debut novel, The Listener is a tale of madness and passion set in a psychiatric hospital just after the end of WWII.
Members Reviews:
A remarkable look into the human condition...
Nayman's grasp of the human condition is overwhelming. In "The Listener," a psychiatrist, his nurses, and the soldiers they treat, are forever scarred physically and emotionally. Each character must examine a world they would rather forget. A world embattled by personal loss, World War II, and their roles - real and imagined - in the Holocaust. Nayman is expert in how she depicts these horrors, and the impact upon the psyches of individuals and their relationships. In another of her books, "Awake in the Dark: Stories," she uses each character's nightmares, horrifying realities, and insecurities to examine their lives, and the lives of their loved ones. Another example of a book that digs deeply into the emotional impact of the Holocaust is Jerry Marcus'Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Zev, which examines the Holocaust from another perspective - from the responsibilities and decisions made by someone who did not personally experience these tragedies, but is haunted by them nonetheless. For both Nayman and Marcus' characters, no one really escapes - not those who lived through it, not their friends and lovers, and not those of a later generation whose heritages are forever intertwined with history.
What an interesting book!
It's been a good while since I read this book, but it is definitely one worth reading. It was interesting and kept me reading. I would recommend this book.
Worst book I have ever read
One of the worst books I have ever read! The writing was poor, the characters were detestable, there wasn't a story to be found. I absolutely hated this book.
Just Couldn't Finish
Tossing a book on your DNF pile after 191 page is akin to giving up on a 20 year marriage. On the one had, you've already been through so much with the book that it's a shame
to give up on it within 100ish pages of the end. On the other, there's no point in losing any more of your life to the book if you're not happy. Sadly, but not regretfully, I decided to divorce myself from Shira Nayman's novel about a the lead doctor at a mental institution in post WWII New York and an odd patient who seems to know so much about him and one of his former patients.
I had high hopes for the book. It caught my eye in a copy of BookPage. I love to read Gothic fiction, and what's more Gothic than an insane asylum - well, other than a spooky British mansion? I didn't have any expectations that it would be as wonderful as Patrick McGrath's Asylum, but I was expecting it to be interesting. I found this book rather boring. Even the scenes where Dr. Harrison is spying on others having sex weren't enough to make me want to continue. I'm sure that it was headed somewhere, but I just didn't care.
I am still on the search for a new fabulous Gothic read. I think Kate Morton might be my next best choice. In the meantime, I cannot recommend The Listener.
A deep undertow in a dazzlingly literate sea.....
Shira Nayman is a brilliant and impassioned explorer of the bright darkness within.