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Audiobooks Narrated by Stephane Cornicard
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Sur les hauteurs d'une colline, au coeur de l'Allemagne nazie, se dresse un imposant château gothique, magnifique et monstrueux. Dans ce colossal labyrinthe de pierre sont parqués les « ennemis n°1 » d'Hitler, 200 officiers haut gradés aux multiples nationalités. Tout au long de leur longue et éprouvante captivité dans l'enceinte ultrasécurisée de Colditz, ces « incorrigibles » n'auront qu'une seule obsession : s'évader.
Dans un jeu haletant du chat et de la souris, où la tension ne cesse de monter à mesure que la machine de guerre nazie s'affaiblit, ces prisonniers mettent leurs geôliers à l'épreuve par de redoutables et rocambolesques tentatives d'évasion.
Au fil de portraits psychologiques précis et captivants, l'historien à succès Ben Macintyre dépeint une société en miniature, pleine de héros et de traîtres, de conflits de classes et d'alliances secrètes, et insuffle une nouvelle vie à l'une des plus grandes histoires de guerre jamais racontées.
An irresistible French sensation - Mr Penumbra's 24- hour Bookstore meets Amélie - The Reader on the 6.27 explores the power of books through the lives of the people they save. It is sure to capture the hearts of book lovers everywhere.
Guylain Vignolles leads a dull and solitary life. He hates his job and his only company at home is a goldfish. Every morning he takes the 6.27 to his tedious job at a book pulping factory. He hates his boss and his assistant but he finds companionship with the factory's guard, an eccentric aficionado of classical literature. On the train each morning on the way to work, Guylain reads aloud to his fellow commuters the disparate pages that he rescues from the jaws of the monstrous pulping machine.
One morning on the train, he finds a USB stick which contains the diary of a young woman. As Guylain reads the diary, he finds himself falling love with its author . . .
This enchanting novel is a warm and funny fable about literature's power to uplift even the most monotonous of lives; and how there can be dignity and poetry for even the most misunderstood.