The List, Martin Fletcher
The List, Martin Fletcher
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The List

Author: Martin Fletcher

Narrator: David Thorn

Unabridged: 14 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Jewish Fiction


Synopsis

Winner of a Jewish National Book Award for his previous book, Walking Israel, NBC Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher uses meticulous research and his own family’s history in this stunning novel.
 
 Dramatizing explosive events in London and Palestine in the years directly following World War II, The List follows the lives of Edith and Georg, Austrian refugees who are expecting their first baby in a world unfriendly to Jews. Anti-Semitism sweeps across the streets of London even as the world learns of the atrocities of the Holocaust. As Edith and Georg desperately search for surviving family members, they struggle to stay afloat in a world riddled with terrorism, assassination attempts, and fear.

About Martin Fletcher

Martin Fletcher is one of the most highly respected foreign correspondents in television news. He has covered almost every conflict and natural disaster in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East for thirty-five years, winning five Emmy Awards, a Columbia University Dupont Award, several Overseas Press Club Awards, and a cameraman's award from Britain's Royal Society of television. Fletcher and his wife, Hagar, have raised three sons. He is currently based in Israel, where he is NBC News bureau chief in Tel Aviv.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sondra

I disagree with those reviewers who think this novel is poorly written. While the style is rather dry and journalistic in places, I think the style is well-suited to the subject matter which, according to the author himself, is a fictionalized account of his own parents' struggle to survive and then......more

This novel sounded so intriguing in the blurb, but it was such a disappointment to read. There are two story lines. First there are Georg and Edith, Austrian refugees living in London and expecting their first child. The other story line doesn't focus on one person, but several Jewish operatives in......more

Goodreads review by Mal

A SUSPENSEFUL TALE OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS IN POST-WAR LONDON One of the lessons I learned very early in my three-decade-long career writing and editing fundraising appeals was that statistics numb the brain while a gripping tale of one individual can unlock torrents of emotion in the reader. So it wa......more