A Man Lies Dreaming

De: Lavie Tidhar

Narrado por: Andrew Wincott

Since its original 2014 publication, A Man Lies Dreaming has been translated into multiple languages and gained a cult following for its dark humor, prescient politics, and powerful exploration of the impossibility of fantasy.

1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism. Now eking a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye and calling himself Wolf, he has no choice but to take on the case of a glamorous Jewish heiress whose sister went missing.

It's a decision Wolf will very shortly regret.

For in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.

Prescient, darkly funny, and wholly original, the award-winning A Man Lies Dreaming is a modern fable for our time that comes "crashing through the door of literature like Sam Spade with a .38 in his hand" (Guardian).

©2014, 2020 Lavie Tidhar (P)2021 Tantor

absolutely stellar narration perfectly matched to the material (which is also shockingly good)

somebody is not doing their job well, for a book this good, this interesting and unexpected, this original--all amplified by a narrator performance that is not only ideally matched, but is a sustained masterclass in character acting--to not come up more readily in more searches than it does. i found this through the jaberwocky site and had i not been there looking for something else, i wonder if i ever wouldve found it at all. i do prob 50-60 a year, and id def put this in my top 10 for the year. its a dark alternative history wrapped in a hard-boiled, very noir-style mystery delivering lots of action, some mayhem and a very satisfying literate style that is more than interesting, its moving. get this one if you like alt history, crime, politics (esp pre ww2 european politics). i bet you'll love it as much as i did. sleeper audiobook of the year? id say yes but read it and tell me what you think.