Book Review-Listener

A few months ago I read a creepy book called "The Little Stranger".  Shortly after that, I read a review of it on a blog that I enjoy that went on to recommended Shira Nayman's "The Listener", so I put my name on it and waited.  I finally got the book and read it while I was on vacation.  Wow!  It was wonderful.  It takes place after WWII, in a psychiatric hospital that treats soldiers (among others).  The narrator is the head of the hospital, and is himself a survivor of WWI.  Because I had read the review of "The Little Stranger", which mentioned that the narrator was unreliable, I was prepared for it in this book.  The reader has to be on guard while reading  in order to separate out what is true and what is just in the narrator's head.  Fascinating and eerie.

The Little Stranger By Waters, Sarah 2009-04 - Riverhead Hardcover 9781594488801 Check Our Catalog …More

 

The Listener By Nayman, Shira 2009-12 - Scribner Book Company 9780743292825 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title Nayman's riveting and haunting first novel of madness and passion is set in apsychiatric hospital just after World War II. …More