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The Girl from Berlin
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
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The Girl from Berlin
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Publisher's Summary
In the newest audiobook from internationally best-selling author Ronald H. Balson, Liam and Catherine come to the aid of an old friend and are drawn into a property dispute in Tuscany that unearths long-buried secrets.
An old friend calls Catherine Lockhart and Liam Taggart to his famous Italian restaurant to enlist their help. His aunt is being evicted from her home in the Tuscan hills by a powerful corporation claiming they own the deeds, even though she can produce her own set of deeds to her land. Catherine and Liam’s only clue is a bound, handwritten manuscript, entirely in German, and hidden in its pages is a story long-forgotten....
Ada Baumgarten was born in Berlin in 1918, at the end of the war. The daughter of an accomplished first-chair violinist in the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic and herself a violin prodigy, Ada’s life was full of the rich culture of Berlin’s interwar society. She formed a deep attachment to her childhood friend Kurt, but they were torn apart by the growing unrest as her Jewish family came under suspicion. As the tides of history turned, it was her extraordinary talent that would carry her through an unraveling society turned to war and make her a target even as it saved her, allowing her to move to Bologna - though Italy was not the haven her family had hoped, and further heartache awaited.
What became of Ada? How is she connected to the conflicting land deeds of a small Italian villa? As they dig through the layers of lies, corruption, and human evil, Catherine and Liam uncover an unfinished story of heart, redemption, and hope - the ending of which is yet to be written.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-09-09
Couldn’t Put it Down
This was an engaging listen because of the story and the narration! Finished in a little over 24 hours - just couldn’t stop listening. The switch in time frame is clear and carries the story well. Excellent!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-08-26
Gripping
The story and the performance are both gripping! Be prepared to spend time with this narrated story because you will find it hard to take breaks. Also, have tissues at the ready. I loved this book!
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- nadine
- 2021-02-01
Hard to put down
This book is so interesting, I found myself unable to stop listening. It is of course a heartbreaking story due to its subject matter, but overall, I think it constitutes a happy ending. Well written, engaging and great narrator
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- Dallas
- 2020-04-05
Spellbinding
I did not want this story to end. The way in which the modern era was entwined with the past is seamless. Parts had me laughing out loud and other tearing up. An emotional masterpiece.
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- Mary
- 2020-08-08
Really like this story
An amazing story, made me cry at the end. I never wanted to be finished.
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- Amazon customer
- 2021-03-12
A must-read for Balson fans
A touching and captivating story, perhaps one of Balson's best so far. Extremely accurate musically and historically. Fans of the Taggart-Lockhart series will love it. Narrator Fred Berman portraits vividly all of the characters in this story, he is really talented!
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- Anne F.
- 2021-08-11
Heart breaking beautiful story !
Sad happy suspenseful story . I wondered if it was a true story as the characters and events were so real . At times it was very hard to listen to eg when it showed the virulent antisemitism and horrible attacks on Jews that Hitler incited and so many Germans bought. It showed well how life in Berlin for Jews 10 yrs before the war was as for all its people , and the huge cultural contributions of its Jewish musicians , painters , writers abd scholars. It showed how this family resisted leaving Germany until it was too late : while my heart broke for every time this family chose to stay, as I knew the almost certain outcomes. My only criticism is that sometimes the narrator went over the top in some of his characters , and also that he for the most part played the female heroine , and it was hard to reconcile his male voice to her. I would have suggested that the narration be instead by a woman. A narrator whom I love is Maggie Glynehall . Her wonderful narration of Anna Karenina left me missing the novel and her voice when it was over !
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- Ida Linehan Young
- 2020-12-31
Orchestra rich, story not so rich
I enjoyed the book starting out, then it just became repeat after repeat. Father and daughter following the same trap of duty to their violin before self. In my opinion, the story was way too long and drawn out unnecessarily. There were a lot of opera references and a lot of coincidences for the sake of the storyline. Ada fell in like with a boy when she was a teen, saw him again years later and discovered she loved him, two years later kissed him, two years later they were bedfellows. It took the detective and lawyer so much longer than it did me to read a manuscript that had clues to the finale. They were weeks and weeks at it. The mother fell into a depression and couldn't function for what seemed like years, then she was sacrificing herself without a peep and a complete turnaround from her character at the beginning without real character arc development, it was more of a switch for convenience. The plot fell flat and the book was way too long. A condensed version would have been more enjoyable. The narrator did a good job, especially with introducing foreign language inserts. He probably saved me from not finishing.
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