The Plum Trees, Victoria Shorr
The Plum Trees, Victoria Shorr
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The Plum Trees
A Novel

Author: Victoria Shorr

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2021

Synopsis

A poignant tale about one woman's quest to recover her family's history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust.

Consie is home for a funeral when she stumbles upon a family letter sent from Germany in 1945, which contains staggering news: Consie's great-uncle Hermann, who was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and three daughters, might have escaped. This seems improbable to Consie. Did people escape from Auschwitz? Could her great-uncle have been among them? What happened to Hermann? Did anyone know? These questions are at the root of Consie's excavation of her family's history as she seeks, seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to discover what happened to Hermann.

The Plum Trees follows Consie as she draws on oral testimonies, historical records, and more to construct a visceral account of the lives of Hermann, his wife, and their daughters from the happy days in prewar Czechoslovakia through their internment in Auschwitz and the end of World War II. The Plum Trees is a powerful, intimate reckoning with the past.

About Victoria Shorr

Victoria Shorr is a writer and political activist. She is the author of three works of fiction, including the acclaimed historical novel The Plum Trees. She lives in New York and Santa Barbara, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by NILTON on July 22, 2021

I didn’t expect to finish this book. From the beginning I struggled with the writing. There was this invisible barrier that would not let me connect with the style and with the storyline. This is a work of fiction based on conversations with real people who survived or experienced the Holocaust. I was e......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 28, 2022

The meat of this was good, but the beginning and end of the story were all over the place. It took forever for her to get to a point and the “present time” portion of the book had a tough time making sense in my brain. And something that annoyed me was throughout the book that she would describe a c......more

Goodreads review by Annette on May 02, 2021

Jarring, well-researched historical move about a family separated in Nazi Germany where three daughters are sent to Auschiwitz. It’s narrated by a woman in modern 2000’s times discovering old family letters from WWII that make her investigate what could’ve happened to the girls’s father, who is the......more

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