Keep saying their names : a novel

Resource Information

The work Keep saying their names : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

Keep saying their names : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Simon Stranger

Creator

• Stranger, Simon, 1976-

Contributor

• Ballerini, Edoardo, 1970-

Author

• Stranger, Simon, 1976-

Narrator

• Ballerini, Edoardo, 1970-

Subject

• Downloadable audio books
• Germany, Geheime Staatspolizei | Sonderabteilung Lola -- Fiction
• Norway -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• Rinnan, Henry Oliver, 1915-1947 -- Fiction
• War criminals -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Norway -- Fiction
• Audiobooks

Genre

• Downloadable audio books
• Fiction
• Audiobooks

Language

• eng
• nor
• eng

Summary

An extraordinary work of fiction, inspired by historical events--an exquisitely crafted double portrait of a Nazi war criminal and a family savaged by World War II, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called homeOn a street in modern-day Norway, a writer kneels with his son and tells him that according to Jewish tradition, a person dies twice: first when their heart stops beating, and then again the last time their name is read or thought or said. Before them is a stone engraved with the name Hirsch Komissar, the boy's great-great-grandfather who was murdered by Nazis.The man who sent Komissar to his death was one of Norway's vilest traitors, Henry Oliver Rinnan, a Nazi double agent who set up headquarters in an unspectacular suburban house and transformed the cellar into a torture chamber for resisters, a place to be avoided and feared.That is until Komissar's own son, Gerson, and his young wife, Ellen, take up residence in the house after the war. While their daughters spend a happy childhood playing in the same rooms where some of the most heinous acts of the occupation occurred, the weight of history threatens to pull the couple apart.In Keep Saying Their Names, Simon Stranger uses this unusual twist of fate to probe five generations of intimate and global history, seamlessly melding fact and fiction, creating a brilliant lexicon of light and dark. The resulting novel reveals how evil is born in some and courage in others--and seeks to keep alive the names of those lost

Member of

• Leksikon om iys og mørke

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

839.823/8

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

LC call number

PT8952.29.T8

Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Read by Edoardo Ballerini

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable