Fever

10 hrs. 13 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Toby Lloyd

Narrator Georgy Arsenyev

Description

Toby Lloyd’s novel “Ember” is an engaging, expertly written story about how family traumas—especially those that haven’t been worked through—tend to reproduce themselves in future generations, forming in the souls of descendants an existential void through which everything seeps. A few years ago, we might have said that a story about a Jew who survived the Holocaust, his children and grandchildren, is more historically instructive. But after October 7, 2023—and after the wave of antisemitism that has surged around the world, including allegedly progressive university campuses in America and Europe—it becomes obvious: this novel isn’t just about what happened. It’s about what’s happening now.