The Archived

11 hrs. 2 min.

Language Russian

Author Victoria Schwab

Narrator Elena Korostenskaya

Description

Every body has its own story, a life in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast space where they rest is called the Archive. Mackenzie Bishop’s father first brought her here four years ago, when she was twelve.
She was frightened, but she wanted to prove to herself that she could do it. Now her father is dead, and Mac has become what he once was: a ruthless Keeper whose task is to make sure that the Histories, often cruel, do not wake up and try to get out. Because of her work, she has to lie to the people she loves, and she knows the value of fear — a useful tool for staying alive.
Being a Keeper is not just dangerous; it is also a constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Her father’s death was hard enough in itself, but now, after the death of her younger brother, Mac begins to wonder about the boundary between life and death, sleep and waking. The dead in the Archive must not be disturbed. And yet someone is deliberately altering the Histories, erasing important chapters. If Mac cannot piece together what remains, the Archive itself will collapse.
In this mesmerizing novel born of a rich imagination, Victoria Schwab reveals the delicate lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hard-won redemption.