Torch (By Lyn Miller-Lachmann)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Torch Author: Lyn Miller-Lachmann Narrator: Melissa Moran Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: November 1, 2022 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Czechoslovakia, 1969 Seventeen-year-old Pavol has watched his country's freedoms disappear in the wake of the Soviet Union's invasion. He's seen his own dreams disappear too. In a desperate, fatal act of protest against the oppressive new government, he sets himself on fire in public, hoping to motivate others to fight for change. Instead, Pavol's death launches a government investigation into three of his closest friends. Štepán finds his Olympic hockey ambitions jeopardized and must conceal his sexual orientation from authorities who could use it against him. Tomáš has already been accused of 'antisocial' behavior because he struggles to follow the unwritten rules of everyday interactions, and now he must work even harder to meet the expectations of his father, the regional leader of the communist party. And aspiring film director Lída, Pavol's girlfriend, is pregnant with his child, which brands her a traitor by association and upends all her plans. With their futures hanging in the balance, all three must decide whether to keep struggling to survive in the country Pavol died hoping to save . . . or risk a perilous escape to the other side.