This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In the shadow of the Nazi regime, one woman fights to shield her daughter from the talons of evil.Paris, 1941. Sarah, a Jewish woman, finds herself trapped in the city with her five-year-old daughter, Rebecca, as World War II rages on. Desperate to escape the tightening grip of Nazi oppression, they attempt to flee to neutral Spain. However, their hopes are shattered as they are captured by the French police and...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A short story companion to The Girl Under the Flag.For months now, Monique has been the mistress of a German officer. For months now, she no longer knows who she is.Living under a false identity in German-occupied Paris, Monique hides a deadly secret: she is Jewish.Since last summer, she has shared her life with Herr Ernest, a German officer. She knows that if anyone discovers the truth,...

Where has my husband gone?Kyiv, Ukraine 2021, Anuchka, a young Ukrainian student, finds an old photo of a woman standing beside a motorcycle, but her grandmother refuses to tell her who that woman is.Italy 1940, Francesca, a young Italian woman who opposes the fascists, meets a handsome man and marries him, but a few months later, he is drafted into the Italian army, fighting alongside the Germans. Two years later, he’s sent to Russia to the Battle of Stali...

Running for her life from the Nazis, Monique, a seventeen-year-old Jewish girl, escapes through the streets of Paris, searching for a place to hide.In a dark basement deep within the city, Philip, a man of the Resistance, offers her a deal in order to save her life by changing her identity. In return, she needs to provide information about the Germans by becoming acquainted with them.Torn between her feelings for Philip and her fear of Herr Ernest, a German officer who show...

The last time Monique laughed was September 12, 1940.Although the Germans arrived a few months ago and occupied Paris, so far nothing has changed in the life of Monique, a fifteen-year-old Jewish girl. But in recent days the Germans have begun to hang orders on billboards, instructing all Jews to mark themselves with a yellow badge on their clothes.Now, with the yellow badge, everyone is starting to walk away from her and treat her with suspicion. Did thing...

It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle, Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in London for nearly three decades. Odysseus Abroad follows them on one of their weekly, familiar forays about town. The narrative surface has the se...