Weiser Dawidek

8 hrs. 49 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Paweł Huelle

Narrator Svetlana Repina

Description

This novel, translated into many languages, has been called a “masterpiece,” a “literary triumph,” and a “book of the decade.” Stylistically and thematically drawing on the work of Günter Grass, Hülle builds the narrative around the figure of a teenager, Weiser Dawidek, who has almost magical abilities and mysteriously disappears in the summer of 1957 near Gdańsk. The storyteller is one of the witnesses of this disappearance—trying to make sense of what he saw with his own eyes, conducting his investigation for more than twenty years…