Book description
The first time Michael saw Hanna, she was helping him up after collapsing on the schoolyard path. Fifteen years old, dizzy with fever, he barely registered her hands-strong, warm, a little rough-lifting him. Then came the quiet afternoons in her apartment, the scent of soap and cigarettes, the way her laughter felt like sunlight through a window. She was older, older than his mother, and the world narrowed to the heat of her skin and the sound of her breathing in the dark. He loved her, simple and fierce as a heartbeat.
Then, silence. She vanished without a word, leaving only a ghost of her presence in the empty apartment. Years later, Michael, now a law student, walks into a courtroom. There she is: Hanna Schmitz, standing trial for crimes that make his blood turn to ice. She's accused of hiding Jewish prisoners in a burning building during the war. The evidence is damning. The prosecution paints her as a monster.
But Michael watches her. He sees the way she clutches her hands, the way she won't look at him, even though he's there. When the judge asks why she didn't speak up, why she let the prisoners burn, she simply says, "I couldn't read." It's not an excuse. It's a door slamming shut. And in that moment, Michael realizes: her silence isn't about guilt. It's about shame. A shame so deep, so terrifying, that it outweighs the horror of what she did.
Listening to this on audiobook is like sitting in the courtroom yourself, feeling the weight of every unspoken word. The narrator's voice doesn't shout the moral; it lets the quiet moments speak-the pause before Hanna's confession, the way Michael's voice cracks when he finally understands. You hear the rustle of the trial documents, the muffled sob from the gallery, the echo of Hanna's whispered "I couldn't read" in the empty apartment where they first met. The shame isn't in the crime; it's in the secret she carried, a secret she thought was worse than murder. And that's what lingers long after the final chapter: the terrible, beautiful weight of a life lived in the shadow of something you couldn't face. It's not just a story about the past. It's about how we carry our own unspoken things, day after day, in the quiet spaces between words.
Emerald Goddess
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Wild Hair
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Freak
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Rook
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VenusXX
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Mechani-Man
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Miss Lucky
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Clover Dragon
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The Final Judgement
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Kitchen
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Manimal
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Freak
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180
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Scratch Man
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Congo Wire
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Bat Magenta
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Freesia
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Nola
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience