The Children's Dream

Name: The Children's Dream
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Roberta Kagan
ISBN: 9798765046708

Author: Roberta Kagan

Series: Auschwitz Twins #1

Narrator: Shaina Summerville

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/25/2022

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Jewish Fiction

Synopsis

Sometimes Dreams Come True . . .

And so do nightmares.

When Naomi's daughter, Perle, starts to have nightmares about smokestacks and creepy doctors, Naomi is struck with terror—the terror of a mother who fears her daughter is in mortal danger. Naomi believes dreams are glimpses into the future. She, too, has had dreams of foreign soldiers with a strange flag invading her tiny village. She knows in her heart that evil is brewing.

Real-life has already been a living hell for Naomi. She must navigate the treacherous path of her unhappy arranged marriage with Hershel while keeping a scandalous love affair secret. And now something is coming. Her dreams—the dreams Hershel laughs at—tell her so. And the thing that is coming will make the hell she has been living seem ordinary and almost peaceful.

The noose is tightening, and not even her nightmares can prepare Naomi, or her sleepy little village, from the sweeping scythe of the Nazi death machine.

About Roberta Kagan

Roberta Kagan is an American novelist who primarily writes historical fiction, most notably set during World War II and the Holocaust, although she has featured other time periods and settings. Her fans have a particular fondness and appreciation for her World War II period books, such as All My Love Detrick and A Flicker of Light, which are inspirational stories of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances.

Her father was of Romany descent, and her mother was Jewish. Her childhood was quite unusual, as the family was wealthy until she was thirteen years old, when her father suffered a reversal of fortune in his business. The family went from being privileged to being poor in a matter of months, and Roberta learned some valuable lessons about true friendship and what really matters in life that have carried over into her books and short stories. The Romany teachings she received from her father have also had a significant impact on her writing, and several of her books feature Romany characters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Keri on April 01, 2022

I always find books set during WWII and the holocaust interesting even though difficult to read at times. Considering the cover I was expecting this story to take place at Auschwitz or another concentration camp. This book mainly takes place in Poland about 15 years before the Nazi takeover. It does......more

Goodreads review by Shirley on February 13, 2022

The Premonition In a Jewish neighborhood in Poland the Aizenberg family lives with Herschel, his wife Naomi and their three girls Shoshana, Perle and Bluma. Perle and Bluma are twins and Shoshana is the eldest daughter. Naomi has dreams that are premonitions of things to come, it runs in her family. T......more

Goodreads review by Pam on May 21, 2022

The Children’s Dream is by Roberta Kagan. This is the first book in a series of three. I am waiting on book two which comes out in a little over a week. Like all her books, Roberta Kagan keeps you interested in the story all the way through. You feel like you know the characters very well. The story......more

Goodreads review by Pancha on February 13, 2022

An orthodox Jewish family living in Poland before WW2. A mother raising her 3 daughters while facing that she´ll never have a good relationship with the man she had to marry. A gift or curse of prophetic dreams that is in her blood. And horrible nightmares about soldiers and nazi flaggs hunting her......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 07, 2022

I have to admit that by the book cover and title we would be reading about the two on the cover and their dreams at Auschwitz. However, it technically is about children's dreams but in different generations of this family. It is also set in the early 1930's before the invasion. The Aizenberg family,......more