Address Unknown, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Address Unknown, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
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Address Unknown
A Novel

Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Narrator: Rob Shapiro, George Newbern

Unabridged: 1 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/29/2021


Synopsis

A rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany In this searing novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco, and Martin, his friend and former business partner who has returned to Germany in 1932, just as Hitler is coming to power.Originally published in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an international sensation. Credited with exposing the dangers of Nazism to American readers early on, it is also a scathing indictment of fascist movements around the world and a harrowing exposé of the power of the pen as a weapon.A powerful and eloquent tale about the consequences of a friendship—and society—poisoned by extremism, Address Unknown remains hauntingly and painfully relevant today. 

About Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Kathrinek Ressmannt Taylor was an American author best remembered for Address Unknown, originally published in Story magazine in 1938. She was also the author of Day of No Return, and a professor of creative writing and journalism at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania for nineteen years. Kressmann Taylor died in Minnesota in 1996.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ilse

Reading this article in The Guardian last week, which praises Address unknown as an anti-Nazi-novel that saw into the future, I admit I am frightened that the author is right concluding that the novel’s prescience is not confined to its time and saw into our own future too. In hindsight, it is this......more

Goodreads review by Jaline

Words have power. We readers know that as we find ourselves moved to tears, beside ourselves with outrage, or smiling at the foibles of our fellow humans – and ourselves. Spoken words have power, too. Charismatic leaders and fanatic leaders know this, and know exactly how to put their words across to......more