The Wall, John Hersey
The Wall, John Hersey
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The Wall

Author: John Hersey

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 29 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2019


Synopsis

Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral story, impossible to put down.

About The Author

John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.Mark Bramhall has performed off-Broadway, at venues nationwide, and extensively in film and television. He holds numerous honors for his narrations and has repeatedly been featured among AudioFile Magazine’s best readers of the year.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Violet

In the Warsaw Ghetto there was an underground group of archivists known as the Oyneg Shabbes. Their function was to chronicle the Nazi atrocities for posterity. These journals were famously buried in parts of the ghetto. Some were later discovered; others weren't. John Hersey writes this novel in th......more

Goodreads review by Emily

I am not surprised if you have not heard of this book, but please, please read it. It's one of the most incredible pieces of literature I have ever picked up. It is the archives of a man named Noach Levinson who lived through the Warsaw ghetto and chronicled in minute detail his experiences and the......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

Author John Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, best known for his small first person account of the aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima, called Hiroshima. And when he writes historical fiction, as he does in The Wall, it is very close to actual events. Based on the real documents found bur......more

Goodreads review by Old Man

This is not an easy read, not just because of the subject matter, but also because of the disjointed way it is written. In spite of this it is an extraordinary book. The book is written from daily entries that were entered into journals kept by Noach Levinson for several years while living in a Wars......more


Quotes

"Only a true novelist could breathe warmth, compassion, humor, into what a historian would necessarily have pictured as a stark, hopeless, tragic series of events. Only a sensitive novelist could compel us to embark upon such a fearful adventure as this and remain until the end." -- The New York Times

"A searching, heroic story." -- The Atlantic


Awards

  • Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
  • Sidney Hillman Prize