The Verdun Affair: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Grief looms, shadowlike, over this beautifully calibrated novel, which recalls the work of Anthony Doerr and Michael Ondaatje.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Capturing the fragmented textures of war’s afterlife, and the private desires that seem to glow with even greater intensity in memory, is Dybek’s true ambition.”

  — Vogue

• “A story of operatic complexity, narrated in many voices, rich in imagery.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “[This] literary romance…unravels a love triangle and its players’ secrets.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “An extended metaphor showing how relationships, loves even, can be shattered beyond all recognition, just as a human body can be obliterated. The author effectively communicates the spirit of place and time…[and] the powerful images of post-war suffering eclipse the image of long-dead romances.”

  — Historical Novels Review

• “Dybek is a master at creating an atmosphere of war, of decadence amid the rubble, and at dipping in and out of history.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “I am still haunted by the images of war so deftly conjured in the midst of an elegiac love story. Dybek writes with a commanding sense of story and language. This novel will not let you go.”

  — Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author

• “Rich and poignant and compelling.”

  — Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

• “An intensely gripping story set in the immediate aftermath of war. From a still-smoldering battlefield, Nick Dybek conjures a sweeping saga of secrets, lies, mistaken identity, love and betrayal. This is the kind of book you can’t put down.”

  — Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus

• “A masterful, sweeping novel of love and war and the way we reconstruct ourselves and our stories after everything has come apart. Nick Dybek is a vivid storyteller, and this is a beautiful and exciting book.”

  — Ramona Ausubel, author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty