
The Space Between Words
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2017
نویسنده
Simona Chitescu-Weikناشر
Thomas Nelsonشابک
9780718086404
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

September 1, 2017
After surviving a terrorist bombing at a Paris nightclub, Jessica feels as though her life is over. It is only through encouragement from her friend Patrick that she is able to continue on their trip to the south of France. At a flea market, she finds a document hidden in an antique that details the life of Adeline Baillard, a young woman who managed to endure during the persecution of the Huguenots, French Protestants. Needing to focus on something other than the horror of the attack, Jessica begins researching the Baillard family and their amazing tale of survival amidst awful loss. Adeline's story helps Jessica reframe her own terrible experience. VERDICT Phoenix's (Of Stillness and Storm) powerful and compelling novel reflects how the past can give us hope for the future. A surprising plot twist adds a bittersweet flavor. Fluid writing and seamless transitions from history to the present make this the author's best book yet.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Narrator Simona Chitescu-Weik has the complex task of melding two chaotic time periods in France in this compelling audiobook. Chitescu-Weik portrays Jessica, an American living in contemporary France, as a vague and indecisive woman. On a whim Jessica attends a rock concert on the night that terrorists attack the concert hall, and Jessica is wounded. Upon recovering, Jessica takes a trip to the French countryside, where she finds some hidden papers written by Adeline Baillard, a Huguenot teenager from seventeenth-century France, a period of religious persecution. Chitescu-Weik's portrayal of Adeline is quite different; she releases the French woman's passion and her conviction to endure her fate "with courage." Chitescu-Weik gives listeners a convincing portrait of what terrorism looks in different eras. E.E.S. � AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
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