I thought it was time to tackle another Russian classic (after War and Peace and Anna Karenina). I listened to this one, which, I think, is my preferred way of reading these long classics.
Here’s the description
The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family’s rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky’s dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone’s faith in humanity is tested.
As you can imagine, this was long with lengthy philosophical/religious tracts. It took a long time to get to what I think of as the ‘meat’ of the novel – the murder, trial, etc.
Here is the Wikipedia article