A BOOKSELLER IN MADRID

This audiobook takes place in 1930s Madrid, where Barbara opens a bookstore that serves to defend beloved literature from the rising Nazi censorship spreading across Europe and the effects of the Spanish Civil War. Narrator Lauren Ezzo's crisp diction makes the story's digressions into complex historical politics easy to understand. In an era-appropriate touch, her narration has hints of the artificial Transatlantic accent employed by 1930s American actors in early "talkie" films like THE WIZARD OF OZ. However, some of the accents she employs in dialogue--for characters from the Soviet Union, Germany, and Spain--sound slightly cartoonish, even in context. V.E.G. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2025]