AudioFile - Find your next great audiobook
Get our Newsletter

SASHENKA

by | Read by Anne Flosnik

Fiction • 20.5 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2008

Beautiful teenaged Sashenka joins the Marxist underground in tzarist St. Petersburg. A true believer, she survives the revolution and even the terror that follows, enjoying a privileged life with her party-leader husband—until the Stalinist tiger turns on her, as it did on so many. Montefiore uses his knowledge of the Soviet period to shattering effect when, 50 years later, a young researcher navigates the secret archives to learn what happened to Sashenka, her husband, and her children. Anne Flosnik is a fine actor who could have hit this out of the park, but she chooses to render everyone's speech in a stagey faux-Russian accent. Why? These characters were speaking Russian—in Russia. Somehow, the power of the story survives the insult. B.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2009]

Trade Ed. • Tantor Media • 2008

CD ISBN 9781400110070 $49.99 • Sixteen CDs

MP3-CD ISBN 9781400160075 $34.99 • Two MP3-CDs

DD ISBN multiple sources

 

Library Ed. • Tantor Media • 2008

CD ISBN 9781400140077 $99.99 • Sixteen CDs

Advertisement Advertisement
The latest audiobook reviews, right in your inbox.

Get our FREE Newsletter and discover a world of audiobooks.

envelope

AudioFile Newsletter

Let us recommend your next great audiobook!

No algorithms here!
We pick great audiobooks for you.
Sign up for our free newsletter with audiobook love from AudioFile editors.

If you are already with us, thank you! Just click X above.

×

Thank you for signing up.

×

Thanks!

Thank you for contacting us!

Our group will review and follow up within 72 hours.
Thanks for your interest!

Back Home ×

Thanks!

Thank you for signing up!

Our group will review and follow up soon.

Back Home ×