• The Second Winter

  • By: Craig Larsen
  • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
  • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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The Second Winter

By: Craig Larsen
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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Publisher's summary

"A great historical novel, a touching family saga, and a noir wartime thriller all rolled into one terrific narrative." (Lee Child, The New York Times best-selling author)

Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2017 for Literary Fiction

Bronze Winner, Foreword Indies 2016, War & Military

Honorable Mention, San Francisco Book Festival 2017, General Fiction

The fog of war shrouds occupied Denmark in the darkest days of World War II. On a farm in Jutland, Fredrik Gregersen struggles to keep his children fed, supplementing his income by smuggling refugees through Denmark into Sweden. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Polina, a young Polish Jew, has been forced into prostitution by the Nazis. When Fredrik steals an heirloom necklace from a helpless Jewish family, his fate becomes intertwined with Polina's, entrapping them both in a complex web that takes decades to unravel.

©2016 Craig Larsen (P)2016 Craig Larsen

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Heartbreaking, riveting, and devastating

The first chapter grabs you and never lets go. This is a war story, but it's more than that. It's the story of a family, of a father trying to protect his family from monsters--and finding that he's become a monster himself--of a sensitive son trying to become his own man. The ending left me ugly-crying on a plane, to the point where I terrified a flight attendant. The images, and the emotions of this book, never leave you. But I'm not doing it justice. Please listen for yourself, and see how quickly you are transported into this world. And how impossible it is to leave.

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Depressing !

This is the most depressing story I’ve ever listened to. I kept hoping something would happen to engage me but it never happened.

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very disappointed

Do not like the book or the reader at all!!! I am not going to finish listening to. Very disappointed!

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