Play Audiobook Sample
Adam Resurrected Audiobook
Play Audiobook Sample
(3.09) - 68 listener ratings
Quick Stats About this Audiobook
Total Audiobook Chapters:
Longest Chapter Length:
Shortest Chapter Length:
Average Chapter Length:
Audiobooks by this Author:
Publisher Description
The crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Adam Resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of Holocaust fiction ever written.
A former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths, Adam is now the ringleader at an asylum populated solely by Holocaust survivors. Alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients, Adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred.
With the biting irony of Catch-22, the intellectual vigor of Saul Bellow, and the pathos and humanity that are Kaniuk's hallmarks, Adam Resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption.
Download and start listening now!
"Take one: I didn't finish this book. It is very well written but too disturbing and depressing for my taste. I don't know how to rate it... Take two: I had to go back and finish this book. Despite the sadness and horror. This is an amazing book. Bravo!"
— Elazar (5 out of 5 stars)
Quotes
-
“Stefan Rudnicki’s narration…[is] as if he alone were born to read these words…[Listeners] won’t want to miss a word and more than likely will listen more than once. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile -
“Whether it is due to the originality of his broken style, or the sensitivity of his characters…or his implacable lucidity, Kaniuk must be considered one of the great writers of our time.”
— Le Monde (Paris)
Awards
-
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Adam Resurrected Listener Reviews
-
" The surreal style of this book hooked me right off, but I kept waiting for it to build and never felt like it did. This is an angry rant of a book about how God abandoned the Jews during the Holocaust. Interesting, but not for the classroom. "
— Charles, 10/22/2013 -
" This is one of the strangest books I've ever read. "
— Constance, 4/25/2013 -
" Sontag was right, he's one of the world's greatest writers, possibly a genius. "
— Peter, 2/25/2012 -
" Must be too deep for me! I just don't seem to get it. Stopped reading at 31%. "
— Courtney, 7/5/2011 -
" Este libro te permite entender porque pueden estar, sufrir o mejorar los llamados " Locos " "
— Rafael, 5/17/2011 -
" Sontag was right, he's one of the world's greatest writers, possibly a genius. "
— Peter, 2/11/2011 -
" The surreal style of this book hooked me right off, but I kept waiting for it to build and never felt like it did. This is an angry rant of a book about how God abandoned the Jews during the Holocaust. Interesting, but not for the classroom. "
— Charles, 6/16/2010
About Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk was born in Tel Aviv in 1930 and took part in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. A painter, journalist, and theater critic, he is best known as a novelist. His books have been translated to great acclaim into more than twenty languages and have earned him the Bialik Prize, the French Prix de Droits de l’Homme, and the Israeli President’s Prize.
About Stefan Rudnicki
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.