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Akin
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- Narrator
- Jason Culp
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 3 October 2019
- Run Time
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.
'If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - Guardian
A retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.
This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.
Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.
'Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world' – Woman & Home
Critics Review
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Highly emotional but never sentimental.
Vogue
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Akin offers a subtle, entertaining portrait of the relationship—and friction—between age and youth.
The Economist
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An important, touching novel that stays with you long after you’re done reading it.
Independent
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Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world.
Woman & Home
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A highly enjoyable novel’
Daily Mail
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Absorbing. I loved the growing relationship between the two.
Prima
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Sweet, tender and defiantly unsentimental, this is a sad, funny look at how flawed, fragile people develop a sense of belonging.
Psychologies
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A delicate and moving reminder of the way in which our human stories are made from practical choices – often in life as well as in literature.
Harper's Bazaar
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Heartwarming and humourous.
Radio Times
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A poignant and hopeful tale
Woman Magazine
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Praise for Room:
Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tendernessAudrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
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One of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time
John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Absorbing, truthful and beautiful . . . it is a kind of sustained poem in praise of motherhood and parental love
Observer
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Sophisticated in outlook and execution . . . Utterly plausible, vividly described
New York Times
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Donoghue mines material that on the face of it appears intractably bleak and surfaces with a powerful, compulsively readable work of fiction
Irish Times
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Details
- Author
- Emma Donoghue
- Narrator
- Jason Culp
- Duration
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 October 2019
- ISBN
- 9781529020007
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss
Synopsis
Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.'If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - GuardianA retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.'Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world' – Woman & Home
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