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Let It Destroy You audiobook

  • By: Harriet Alida Lye
  • Narrator: Harriet Alida Lye
  • Category: Biographical, Fiction
  • Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • Publish date: January 01, 2023
  • Language: English
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Let It Destroy You Audiobook Summary

Inspired by the true story of a dangerous atomic weapon and the man who designed it, here is a stunning novel of morality, creation, and loss from the acclaimed author of The Honey Farm and Natural Killer.

It is August 12, 1945. Tomorrow, August Snow will be tried at the International War Crimes Court for patenting a more lethal variation on the atomic bomb. He invented a radiation machine to cure his young daughter’s cancer, despite knowing that the very same technology was capable of great destruction, and inevitably profited from disaster. But are his intentions relevant when the fate of the world is at stake?

August’s former wife, June, will also attend the hearing. Restless in her Hague hotel room the night before, she keeps watch over their daughter and reflects on the events that brought them here. She had nothing to do with making the bomb. But is she innocent? Wouldn’t any wife and mother have done the same thing in her shoes? And now, will it cost her everything?

Inspired by the physicist Leó Szilárd and the letters he wrote his wife, Gertrud “Trude” Weiss, Let It Destroy You is told in parallel narratives and ventures from Budapest to Berlin to Colorado, and back to Europe. It is a love story about two people whose destinies are bound by everything they share, and all that they’ve kept from one another. Above all, it is a testament to the logic-defying love of a parent who will stop at nothing to protect their child.

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Narrator Harriet Alida Lye
Length 6 hours 23 minutes
Author Harriet Alida Lye
Category
Publisher McClelland & Stewart
Release date April 27, 2024
ISBN 9780771000454

Subjects

The publisher of the Let It Destroy You is McClelland & Stewart. includes the following subjects: alternate history, divorce, august snow, nuclear bomb, manhattan project, antisemitism, cancer, radiation, atomic bomb, physicist, physics, hungarian, jewish, biographical, ww2 books historical fiction, wwii books, ww2 books, world war 2 books, novels, historical fiction books, historical fiction, literary fiction, wwii, world war ii, world war 2, ww2, historical, fiction, fiction books, historical novels, ww2 historical fiction, world war 2 historical fiction, wwii historical fiction, literature, books fiction, Fiction, Biographical, Fiction, Literary The BISAC Subject Code is Biographical, Fiction

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The publisher of the Let It Destroy You is McClelland & Stewart. The imprint is McClelland & Stewart. It is supplied by McClelland & Stewart. The ISBN-13 is 9780771000454.

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