Length5h 58m
About this audiobook
In Marinka, Andrej and Sascha grow up together. They build a house among the sunflowers, share family kitchens and know each other's hiding places.
In 2014, shelling kills Sascha's mother. As families leave and the front line changes the place they know, Sascha stays and finds work among men of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic. Andrej's path leads elsewhere. They try to keep speaking across the distance, but each choice changes what the other can ask of him.
Ten years later, they meet near their ruined hometown in different uniforms. What remains of a childhood friendship when the person across the line is the boy who once knew you best?
Where We Played follows friendship into war, with no easy answers about loyalty, responsibility or the wish to go home.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length5 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
14Chapter 12 — Before Departure
2Preface
15Chapter 13 — With Us
3Chapter 1 — Between Twelve and Two
16Chapter 14 — The Line
4Chapter 2 — Crooked but Sound
17Chapter 15 — What Comes With Us
5Chapter 3 — What You Do
18Chapter 16 — A Place
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6Chapter 4 — Two
19Chapter 17 — Our People
7Chapter 5 — Little Shadow
20Chapter 18 — In the Summer
8Chapter 6 — A Hand
21Chapter 19 — Not by Choice
9Chapter 7 — Outside
22Chapter 20 — The Name on the Route
10Chapter 8 — The Question
23Chapter 21 — Within Earshot
11Chapter 9 — No Second Tap
24Chapter 22 — Home
12Chapter 10 — The Open Door
25Afterword
13Chapter 11 — Stay a Little Longer
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