Cilka's Journey Cilka's Journey

Cilka's Journey

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Publisher Description

"Louise Brealey is an excellent reader who gives Cilka a thoughtful, sympathetic voice." -- Jersey's Best

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience.

Her beauty saved her — and condemned her.

Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival.

When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child?

In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.

Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.

From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit—and the will we have to survive.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
LB
Louise Brealey
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:03
hr min
RELEASED
2019
October 1
PUBLISHER
Macmillan Audio
SIZE
536
MB

Customer Reviews

Southern Hillbilly Girl ,

Wonderful book!

This was an absolutely fascinating book! I cannot image how horrific it must have been to live through a concentration camp and then be imprisoned in Siberia. Such horrible conditions to work and live in. I loved every minute of the book and the narrator was excellent!

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