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THE HIDDEN LETTERS OF VELTA B

by | Read by Hillary Huber

Fiction • 13 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2016

Using a quiet, fluid voice, Hillary Huber narrates this convoluted tale of Maris, who heard the secrets of the dead when he was a boy. Maris was born into a family of gravediggers in Latvia, a family that often hid things in the ground, where they were safe from prying eyes. Ochsner's descriptions of Latvian life before and after WWII follow the ebb and flow of the story. When Maris unearths his great-grandmother Velta's letters, he learns more about his past and that of his city. The novel peels away the veneer of idyllic life in small-town Latvia, revealing bigoted and viciously anti-Semitic attitudes toward non-Latvians in the twentieth century jarringly contrasted with lyrical descriptions of the countryside. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2016]

Trade Ed. • HighBridge Audio • 2016

CD ISBN 9781681682143 $34.99 • Nine CDs

DD ISBN 9781681682150 $24.49

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