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Title: The Wall Between

Author: Jesper Bugge Kold, K. E. Semmel - translator

Narrator: Michael Page

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Why would someone want to murder the father he never knew?

After Peter Körber is stabbed to death in Berlin, his son, Andreas, leaves Denmark, where he was raised by his mother and stepfather, and travels to that once-divided city to uncover the brutal truth. In his search to know this complete stranger, Andreas hopes to come to grips with his own identity crisis, stalled academic career, and failed relationship.

But what kind of man was his father? A complicated portrait begins to emerge concerning Peter's role in the German Democratic Republic before reunification. As Andreas struggles to find a chink in the wall of secrets and lies that obscures the real Peter Körber, he brings to light disturbing revelations that open fresh wounds and have devastating consequences.

Gripping and profoundly moving, The Wall Between is a haunting novel of the harsh realities of living under a repressive regime, the price of blind allegiance to ideology, and the moral complexity of personal culpability.

Members Reviews:

Tragic but beautifully written and translated. Recommend!

***I won this book via the Goodreads Giveaway program. This has not influenced my opinion.***

This is an incredible translation. It is so smooth and elegant that the reader would never know it was not originally in English. Well done!

The story itself is so tragic. I love the title as it is apropos but also a theme. The walls that exist in families to protect and hide and shield are all explored throughout the story.

The author creates a tale of a father who never knows his son and weaves with the story of a son who never knows his father. There is a tertiary tale of a man who has lost everything. All three men are alone, hurting, and have felt tremendous loss in their lives. All three men are suffering day to day and feel little purpose to their lives.

I imagine the author had to do a lot of research in preparing to write this book. The descriptions of emotion, color, and feelings were quite vivid. While the actual story is not relatable for me, I did feel connected to the characters because the author gave them all such complexity. I felt I understood each character's motivation.

In the end, each character was always trying to do the right thing even if it really wasn't the right thing in hindsight. How sad that doing the right thing set into motion terrible loss, pain, suffering, and a web of lies. I was definitely drawn into the story, mostly by the alternating storylines and time periods. This kept the pace of the book even and flowing.

Readers who enjoy historical fiction (though this is a bit more recent), stories with depth, and excellent prose will appreciate this book.

interesting story

Interesting to see East Germany from the perspective of those living in it and the various wide reaching effects of repressing a people . The reader develops a better understanding of those times around the fall of the Berlin wall

This book gives one a lot of insight to life ...

This book gives one a lot of insight to life in East Germany and how the population adapted after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Five Stars

Tour de Force

A very interesting book. It gives a very informative ...

A very interesting book. It gives a very informative idea on the effects the Berlin Wall had on people in East Germany.