An Unexpected LifeBy Victor HermanNarrated by Christopher Hurt
Length13h 49m
About this audiobook
In 1931, a young American named Victor Herman accompanied his parents to the Soviet Union, where his father was to set up a Ford Motor Company plant. In 1938, he was inexplicably thrown into a Soviet prison. It was forty-five years before he was able to return to America.
His was a common nightmare during the Stalin years. Those who survived imprisonment and torture were either sent north to hard labor in the icy forests and mines or into exile. Victor Herman was one of the few who survived. During his life in and out of Russian prisons, he fell in love with a Russian gymnast, who followed him into exile. She lived with him and their child for a year in Siberia in a cave chopped out of ice. Theirs was a romance destined to thrive even under desperate conditions.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length13 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byChristopher Hurt
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 2, 2009
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
26Chapter 26
2Chapter 2
27Chapter 27
3Chapter 3
28Chapter 28
4Chapter 4
29Chapter 29
5Chapter 5
30Chapter 30
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6Chapter 6
31Chapter 31
7Chapter 7
32Chapter 32
8Chapter 8
33Chapter 33
9Chapter 9
34Chapter 34
10Chapter 10
35Chapter 35
11Chapter 11
36Chapter 36
12Chapter 12
37Chapter 37
13Chapter 13
38Chapter 38
14Chapter 14
39Chapter 39
15Chapter 15
40Chapter 40
16Chapter 16
41Chapter 41
17Chapter 17
42Chapter 42
18Chapter 18
43Chapter 43
19Chapter 19
44Chapter 44
20Chapter 20
45Chapter 45
21Chapter 21
46Chapter 46
22Chapter 22
47Chapter 47
23Chapter 23
48Chapter 48
24Chapter 24
49Chapter 49
25Chapter 25
50Chapter 50
About the author
Victor Herman
Victor Herman was born in America and moved to the Soviet Union with his family at the age of sixteen. There, he became a celebrity for his flying and world-record breaking parachute jumps. In 1938, he was thrown into Soviet prison, where he survived for eighteen years. After Stalin’s death he was “pardoned” and, in 1976, after much effort, was finally allowed to return to America. His family joined him in 1978. They live in Michigan.View all by Victor Herman
