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The Crooked Maid audiobook
- By: Dan Vyleta
- Narrator: Kate Reading
- Category: Fiction, General
- Length: 15 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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The Crooked Maid Audiobook Summary
Graham Greene meets Dostoevsky in a thrilling and atmospheric story of guilt and restitution set in postwar Vienna.
Vienna, 1948. The war is over, and as the initial phase of de-Nazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble.
Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier after discovering her husband’s infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Traveling on the same train from Switzerland is eighteen-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather’s sickbed and the secrets of his family’s past.
As Anna and Robert navigate an unrecognizable city, they cross paths with a war-widowed American journalist, a hunchbacked young servant girl, and a former POW whose primary purpose is to survive by any means–and to forget. Meanwhile, in the shells of burned-out houses and beneath the bombed-out ruins, a ghost of a man, his head wrapped in a red scarf, battles demons from his past and hides from a future deeply uncertain for all.
In The Crooked Maid, Dan Vyleta returns to the shadows of war-darkened Vienna, proving himself once again “a magical storyteller, master of the macabre” (David Park).
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The Crooked Maid Audiobook Narrator
Kate Reading is the narrator of The Crooked Maid audiobook that was written by Dan Vyleta
Kate Reading is the recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been named by AudioFile magazine as a “Voice of the Century,” as well as the Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy in 2008 and 2009 and Best Voice in Biography & Culture in 2010. She has narrated works by such authors as Jane Austen, Robert Jordan, Edith Wharton, and Sophie Kinsella. Reading has performed at numerous theaters in Washington D.C. and received a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in Aunt Dan and Lemon. AudioFile magazine reports that, “With subtle control of characters and sense of pacing, Kate’s performances are a consistent pleasure.”
About the Author(s) of The Crooked Maid
Dan Vyleta is the author of The Crooked Maid
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The Crooked Maid Full Details
| Narrator | Kate Reading |
| Length | 15 hours 44 minutes |
| Author | Dan Vyleta |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 25, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781483062853 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Crooked Maid is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781483062853.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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