A 2024 debut novel featuring the greatest physicists of our time – Bohr, Feynman, and Oppenheimer – all working secretly at Los Alamos but the story centers upon two young Jewish people who fall in love while facing the gripping emotional and ethical choices of their work and life’s greater meaning.  

“Realistically evokes the constant worry and guilt felt by those on the home front during wartime.”—Historical Novel Society

“From its first page, this novel delivers a keenly intimate, precise account of a watershed moment in our world history. Not only is The Sound of a Thousand Stars a great achievement of historical depth, it proves how selfless and vital love becomes when we find ourselves at the end of the world. Robbins has given us an elegy that rings clear, strong, and true.”—Amy Jo Burns, author of Mercury“

The Sound of A Thousand Stars declassifies the human emotions at the core of one of the 20th century’s most fraught scientific projects. Asking questions of complicity and sacrifice that reverberate today, this beautifully written novel considers the costs of scientific advancement, the value of an individual life, and the thrilling knife’s edge of being in love. A feat of a book.”—Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House and Maddalena and the Dark

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