

The Quiet Twin
Author: Dan Vyleta
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/15/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction
Author: Dan Vyleta
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Unabridged: 12 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/15/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction
Dan Vyleta is the son of Czech refugees who emigrated to Germany in the late 1960s. He holds a PhD in history from King’s College, Cambridge. Vyleta is the author of several novels, including Pavel & I; The Quiet Twin, which was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; and The Crooked Maid, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the J. I. Segal Award. An inveterate migrant, Vyleta has lived in Germany, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He currently resides in Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
From the Author's Note at the end of The Quiet Twin, Dan Vyleta states: My primary interest in this book belonged with the army of opportunists whose crimes at times were as grave in their consequences as those perpetrated by the true believers. Sixty-five years after the Second World War it is ea......more
Set in an apparently ordinary apartment complex in 1939 Vienna 'The Quiet Twin' gives an interesting insight in to the growing menace of National Socialism within the country at the time. The tenants a microcosm for the terrifying realities which are to come. The apartments are inhabited by an weird......more
As I will have a full FBC rv close to its publication next year (I read an earc of the US edition, though the UK edition is out) only some points: - a very dark novel written in a somewhat whimsical tone that most of the time tones down the horrors - excellent atmosphere and memorable characters mostl......more