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Title: Shadow and Light
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Jonathan Rabb
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-04-09
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 70 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Shadow and Light is brilliant and atmospheric, and hard to put down or shake off. Like Joseph Kanon or Alan Furst, Rabb magically fuses a smart, energetic narrative with layers of fascinating, vividly documented history. The result is a stunning historical thriller, created by a writer to celebrate---and contend with.
Editorial Reviews:
There's a persistent mournfulness in Simon Prebble's narration. Whether it's directed toward a doomed Berlin of the 1920s or to the wreckage of the life of Rabb's protagonist, Nikolai Hoffner, the half-German, half-Russian-Jew detective, hardly matters. The dolefulness is richly appropriate, for Berlin is sliding inexorably toward the abyss of Nazism, and Hoffner finds himself increasingly isolated from any meaningful human connection and from an ethical code that makes sense amid the rising corruption. He is investigating the death of a film studio accountant, a case that will eventually touch on plans to secretly rearm Germany and strengthen the Brown Shirts. The plot may become convoluted, but what stays true, thanks to Prebble, is the sense of despair for Berlin and for Rabb's hero.
