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Cilka's Journey: A Novel Audiobook
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"Louise Brealey is an excellent reader who gives Cilka a thoughtful, sympathetic voice." -- Jersey's Best
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a new novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience.
Her beauty saved her — and condemned her.
Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in 1942, where the commandant immediately notices how beautiful she is. Forcibly separated from the other women prisoners, Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly taken, equals survival.
When the war is over and the camp is liberated, freedom is not granted to Cilka: She is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to a Siberian prison camp. But did she really have a choice? And where do the lines of morality lie for Cilka, who was send to Auschwitz when she was still a child?
In Siberia, Cilka faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she meets a kind female doctor, Cilka is taken under her wing and begins to tend to the ill in the camp, struggling to care for them under brutal conditions.
Confronting death and terror daily, Cilka discovers a strength she never knew she had. And when she begins to tentatively form bonds and relationships in this harsh, new reality, Cilka finds that despite everything that has happened to her, there is room in her heart for love.
From child to woman, from woman to healer, Cilka's journey illuminates the resilience of the human spirit—and the will we have to survive.
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"An engrossing, shocking and unsettling extension of this series. I read and loved The Tattooist of Auschwitz last year and was eagerly anticipating getting my hands on a copy of Cilka’s Journey in Audio. Although a very difficult novel to listen to due to the atrocities detailed within these pages, I found this book to be even more intriguing and informative than the first one. The writing is honest, brutal at times, but so important to read so we can honour those that lived through these devastating wartimes. Their voices cannot be forgotten. "
— Ian (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Based on real events, Morris’s sophomore novel follows a brave young Czech woman from Auschwitz-Birkenau to the gulag at Vorkuta…As Cilka’s responsibility grows, from the maternity ward, the infectious disease ward, and the ambulance, she feels purpose and contentment despite the horrors of the gulag…[An] incredible story of bravery and love.”
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“In the stirring follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz…Morris weaves a fast-paced story that captures the immediacy of Cilka’s duties…Morris’s propulsive tale shows the goodness that can be found even inside the gulag.”
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“Narrator Louise Brealey impressively conveys the horror in this controversial sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz….Brealey excels with the many accents and diverse personalities of the prisoners, their relationships, and the demands of their heartless captors. The repetitious and overly graphic descriptions of injuries and Cilka’s unrealistic medical skills are somewhat ameliorated by Brealey’s measured delivery.”
— AudioFile -
Based on a true story, the wrenching yet riveting tale of Lale’s determination to survive the camp with Gita is a moving testament to the power of kindness, ingenuity, and hope.
— People -
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is the story of hope and survival against incredible odds and the power of love.
— PopSugar -
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is an extraordinary document..I find it hard to imagine anyone who would not be drawn in, confronted and moved. I would recommend it unreservedly to anyone, whether they’d read a hundred Holocaust stories or none.
— Graeme Simsion, internationally-bestselling author of The Rosie Project
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An October 2019 LibraryReads Pick
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New York Times bestseller
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A 2020 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narration
Cilka's Journey Listener Reviews
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" This was the first audiobook i ever listened to and it was a recommendation from a friend. I really enjoyed the book and finished it so much quicker than i imagined i would. As soon as i finished this book i went and purchased another one from the same author. Great book, great story, and i highly recommend! "
— OGreads, 2/2/2022
About Heather Morris
Heather Morris is a native of New Zealand, now resident in Australia. For several years, while working in a large public hospital in Melbourne, she studied and wrote screenplays. In 2003, she was introduced to an elderly gentleman who “might just have a story worth telling.” The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Their friendship grew, and Lale embarked on a journey of self-scrutiny, entrusting to her the innermost details of his life during the Holocaust. She originally wrote Lale’s story as a screenplay, which ranked high in international competitions, before reshaping it into her debut novel, The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
About Louise Brealey
Louise Brealey, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, studied history at Cambridge University before studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Manhattan. On television, she appeared in the long-running medical drama Casualty on BBC One in 2002, appearing in ninety-six episodes. Afterwards, she appeared in the BBC serialization of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, as well as Hotel Babylon, Law & Order: UK, Ripper Street, and in all series of Sherlock as Molly Hooper.