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The Choice
- Embrace the Possible
- Narrated by: Edith Eger, Tovah Feldshuh
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Choice by Edith Eger, read by Tovah Feldshuh with an introduction by the author.
Edith Eger was a gymnast and ballerina when she was sent to Auschwitz at the age of sixteen. There, she was made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Her heroic actions helped her sister to survive, and her bunkmates to save her life, during a death march, after which she was found in a pile of bodies, barely alive. She recovered and moved to America, going on to become an eminent psychologist, and giving the keynote address at Viktor Frankl's 90th birthday party.
Like Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, Dr Edith Eger's important book, The Choice, could change your life. Eger shares stories of the Holocaust and the experiences of her clients, who range from survivors of abuse to soldiers suffering from PTSD. She explains how many of us live within a mind that has become a prison and shows how freedom becomes possible once we confront our suffering. Warm, wise and compassionate, The Choice offers profound insights into the nature of human suffering, and our capacity to heal.
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- Liz
- 01-12-19
Outstanding
This is a book that lives with you forever. There are so many levels. Despite the considerable trauma experienced by the author, her survival and subsequent training and practice as a psychotherapist is amazingly uplifting. There is much to be learned from her therapeutic case studies too. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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- Cloudy Sky
- 18-08-20
Powerful and inspiring book
Edith’s story is as moving as it is inspiring. Her humanity is powerful, her experience humbling. An absolute must-read/listen.
There are a few inconsistencies that should have been picked up by an editor though. Also the narrator’s accent is sometimes very thick but words in Slovak as well as in Hungarian are mispronounced, which doesn’t add to the feeling of authenticity but rather takes away from it. Still, the book is fantastic.
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- Gill
- 10-11-18
Inspirational
What an amazing women, I will never complain again!
The book although it does cover her Auschwitz experience and it’s atrocities, it is also about how she coped with and overcame the trauma of her experiences and how though her incredible strength has been able to help so many others with her knowledge and understanding of coping with emotions on every scale.
Not just a book about surviva but her determination to never stop living her life and learning.
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-04-20
Wow
Inspirational, wonderful, heartwarming and just wow! This book will help anyone who reads/listens to the incredible story and wisdom of an incredible woman!
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- Darren B.
- 30-04-19
insightful
insightful and thought provoking from start to finish. I'm not crying your crying.. No your crying
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- Hattie
- 19-06-19
Yes!
Recommended for our book club.
What a fascinating book that stays with you and you find it’s words so helpful and meaningful.
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- Kate Bouchier
- 17-01-21
Inspiring
This was a wonderful book, the storytelling was captivating and there were some real pearls of wisdom to take away.
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- Sandra Owen
- 06-02-21
Harrowing, inspiring and deeply moving.
The Choice is without doubt the most harrowing book I've ever listened to. It's hard to comprehend how a few human beings can be so indescribabley cruel and how so many others so indescribabley resilient, resourceful and forgiving.
This book is not easy listening and the unbelievable suffering that Edith Eger and her family endured makes me almost ashamed to be part of the human race.
It changes your perspective of what's important.
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- Bethan
- 24-06-21
Utterly Amazing
This book has had such a big impact on my life!
What an amazing woman!
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- D W Hodgson
- 21-11-20
Real, shockingly sad yet beautiful
What a strong, clever, compassionate, intelligent, respectable, honest, grateful, pragmatic, dignified woman! She really calibrates trauma & how you can harness it for good. I wish she was my therapist
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