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Berlin
- Author
- Bea Setton
- Narrator
- Daphne Kouma
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 7 July 2022
- Run Time
- 8 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Featuring an exclusive bonus interview between the author, Bea Setton, and her commissioning editor, Alice Youell.
A fresh, wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons - and what she finds there. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times.
In the grip of existential malaise, 25-year-old Daphne moves to Berlin for a fresh start. Far from resolving her quarter-life crisis, things take a turn for the worse.
Because Daphne doesn't just have to navigate all the archetypal experiences of an outsider in the big city - acquiring friends and lovers, grappling with the language and a whole new way of life.
A series of mysterious and troubling events are in motion - starting with a brick hurled through her bedroom window in the dead of night - and a further unravelling ensues. What is at the heart of these strange events and our troubled heroine? Who is Daphne, really, and what is she running from?
© Bea Setton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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Scintillating . . . Berlin is wonderfully funny, and Daphne's observations about modern life, men and the challenges facing young women always hit the nail
FINANCIAL TIMES
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Uncommonly funny, cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest about how we deceive others and ourselves.
Lisa Halliday, author of ASYMMETRY
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Anyone who's started over in a new city -- let alone a new country -- will relate . . . One for Sally Rooney fans
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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A compelling, raw, and thrillingly strange outsider tale of loneliness and deception. Setton is a wonderful writer who, with this sharp debut, adds to the great canon of contemporary anti-heroines.
Mona Awad, author of BUNNY
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Combining the darkness of a thriller with humour, Bea Setton's debut is a fresh and deeply honest take on the modern female experience
STYLIST
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Setton builds her growing paranoia and sense of dread to terrific effect in this unsettling, compelling read.
OBSERVER
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Enjoyable and astutue . . . Daphne's impressions are rendered in precise, lively prose
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Cinematic and confessional . . . Berlin is a Woolfian mirror: Red herrings and cliffhangers stoke interest by conforming to expectations, until the novel undercuts them with digressions and anticlimaxes, reveling in its own formal impunity. . . electric.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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[An] engagingly self-conscious debut . . . our attention is firmly held by the wry wit of Daphne's voice, as well as regular hints that she's something of an unreliable narrator . . . the book's success lies chiefly in its line by-line charm
DAILY MAIL
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Weird, compelling and unique: I was completely absorbed by BERLIN, with its slippery, unsettling narrator, its vivid evocation of a city seen through the troubling lens of disorientation, and by the writing itself, which gleamed.
Francesca Reece, author of VOYEUR
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Details
- Author
- Bea Setton
- Narrator
- Daphne Kouma
- Duration
- 8 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 July 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529195507
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Featuring an exclusive bonus interview between the author, Bea Setton, and her commissioning editor, Alice Youell. A fresh, wry, piercingly contemporary debut about a young woman who moves to Berlin to escape her demons - and what she finds there. For fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Exciting Times.In the grip of existential malaise, 25-year-old Daphne moves to Berlin for a fresh start. Far from resolving her quarter-life crisis, things take a turn for the worse.Because Daphne doesn't just have to navigate all the archetypal experiences of an outsider in the big city - acquiring friends and lovers, grappling with the language and a whole new way of life.A series of mysterious and troubling events are in motion - starting with a brick hurled through her bedroom window in the dead of night - and a further unravelling ensues. What is at the heart of these strange events and our troubled heroine? Who is Daphne, really, and what is she running from?© Bea Setton 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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