- Audiobook
- 2025
- 13 mins
- Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Title
The Fly
Description
In a world that has moved on, two men sit in the shadows of the past. One, frail and forgetful, speaks of things best left unsaid. The other, powerful yet unknowingly adrift, listens—and feels something crack beneath his carefully preserved sense of control. The war took their sons, but time has taken something else, something harder to name.
In the quiet of an office where authority once meant everything, grief lingers like dust on old furniture. A casual visit, a few words spoken in passing, and suddenly, the weight of loss is too heavy to ignore. But the mind is a master of avoidance, and the heart? The heart plays its own cruel tricks.
Then, a tiny presence—a mere insect—appears, drawing the eye, demanding attention. It is nothing, and yet, it is everything. A test. A distraction. A revelation. In a moment both meaningless and profound, the illusion of power meets the reality of fate. And in the end, what remains? Memory, sorrow, or simply... nothing at all?
Mansfield's chilling masterpiece is a meditation on war, grief, and loss.
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The Fly
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Language:
EN
ISBN Audio:
4069828192782
Publication date:
February 24, 2025
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Duration
13 mins
Product type
AUDIO
Explicit:
No
Audio drama:
No
Unabridged:
Yes
About the author:
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was a literary firework—brilliant, brief, and impossible to forget. Born in New Zealand, she left its provincial quiet for the restless pulse of London, where she found her true self in words. Stories were not just what she wrote; they were how she saw the world—sharp, luminous, and alive with unspoken tensions.
A childhood spent beneath the vast New Zealand sky gave her an unshakable love for fleeting moments: the hush before a storm, the rustle of silk at a garden party, the sudden ache of nostalgia. These impressions wove their way into her work, transforming the ordinary into something electric. But it was loss that shaped her deepest themes—her beloved brother's death in the war cast a shadow over her later years, intensifying her search for meaning in life's smallest details.
Tuberculosis stalked her, shortening a career that should have stretched far beyond thirty-four years. Yet, in that too-brief span, she reshaped modern fiction, stripping away excess to expose the raw, pulsing heart beneath. Bliss, The Garden Party, Miss Brill, The Fly—each story a miniature world, alive with atmosphere and emotion, often laced with quiet tragedy.
She died in France, far from the land that first taught her how to see. But her words remain, shimmering like lanterns in the dusk—fragile, luminous, and endlessly alive.
