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Book at Bedtime: Afterworld

Allan Corduner

Anthony Doerr

Jeremy Osborne

Karen Rose

Book at Bedtime: Afterworld: Episode 3

Afterworld

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By Anthony Doerr. A woman who escaped the Holocaust has visions of her childhood friends.

A woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her lost childhood friends in Germany. Miriam calls to Esther through a microphone.

Written by Anthony Doerr. Esther, who is an epileptic, escaped Nazi Germany when she was a child and has lived contentedly in Ohio with her husband and their son. Now 85, her fits have intensified and she is haunted by visions of her childhood friends from the orphanage she grew up in. They appear to be calling to her, as memories from her past flood in.

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Miriam calls to Esther through a microphone.

Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel All The Light We Cannot See which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Afterworld is taken from Memory Wall, a collection of stories about memory.

Writer: Anthony Doerr
Abridger: Jeremy Osborne
Reader: Allan Corduner
Producer: Karen Rose

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A woman who escaped the Holocaust has visions of her childhood friends.

American author Anthony Doerr's story is about a woman who escaped the Holocaust who has visions of her childhood friends. Taken from Memory Wall, a collection of stories about memory.

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