Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in World War II & Holocaust

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A daring story of adventure, friendship, and love in the shadow of WWII” (Harper’s Bazaar) from the renowned author of Ape House and Water for Elephants “Gripping, compelling . . . Gruen’s characters are vividly drawn and her scenes are perfectly paced...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review “Superb . . . This emotional, informative, and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (Best...

Paris, 1989: Alone in her luminous apartment on Île Saint-Louis, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover Julien’s possessions, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of the Second World War. She is unaware that she is watched...

“Sarah Jio weaves past and present in this eminently readable novel about love, gratitude, and forgiveness. I tore through the pages!”—New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and...

A USA Today Best Mystery of All Time Steeped in the folklore of Eastern Europe, and set in the shadow of Nazi darkness erupting just beyond the Czech border, this bone-chilling, richly imagined novel is propulsively entertaining, and impossible to put down. "A wildly entertaining story...

An entirely original novel in which a book—Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion—narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery. “A powerful, powerful piece of work.” —Colum McCann, best-selling author of Apeirogon One...

A dazzling novel spanning two continents—and six decades of secrets—Who is Mr. Satoshi? is a “quietly masterful” (The Independent) work of fiction from the author of High Dive and The Great Mistake. When his mother dies, Rob “Foss” Fossick—a fortysomething photographer whose best...

From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir comes an unforgettable novel of a BBC-sponsored wartime cooking competition and the four women who enter for a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses: The Nazis have won battles, the...

An "immensely satisfying” story (The Guardian) of family, war, art, and betrayal set around an ancient, ancestral home in the Tuscan countryside from the bestselling, award-winning author of Property. When Jan Vidor, an American writer and academic, rents an apartment in a Tuscan villa for the...

An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home On a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and...

The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi...

Two women from different generations connect over their shared need to recover from trauma as they attempt to heal and begin their lives anew, from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker's Gift and The Beekeeper's Promise.“Sisters of the Midnight Sun takes us to extraordinary places, while...

Der große Roman zum 80. Jahrestag der Nürnberger Prozesse. Asta arbeitet als Dolmetscherin im Kurhotel "Palace" in Mondorf-les-Bains, wo die US-Armee gefangengenommene Nazi-Größen interniert. Am 20. Mai 1945 reist ein neuer Gast an. Er bringt 16 Koffer, eine rote Hutschachtel und seinen Kammerdiener mit. Es ist Hermann Göring, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe und Hitlers designierter Nachfolger.

Asta arbeitet als Dolmetscherin im Kurhotel »Palace« in Mondorf-les-Bains, wo die US-Armee gefangengenommene Nazi-Größen interniert. Am 20. Mai 1945 reist ein neuer Gast an. Er bringt 16 Koffer, eine rote Hutschachtel und seinen Kammerdiener mit. Es ist Hermann Göring, Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe und Hitlers designierter Nachfolger.