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Black Narcissus
- Author
- Rumer Godden
- Narrator
- Jilly Bond
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 25 September 2014
- Run Time
- 7 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'A remarkable and beautiful book' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'I envy anyone reading it for the first time' AMANDA COE
'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD
High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General's harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting.
The palace is bestowed to the Sisters of Mary, and what was once known as 'the House of Women' becomes the Convent of St Faith. Close to the heavens, the nuns feel inspired, working fervently to establish their school and hospital. But as the isolation and emptiness of the mountain become increasingly unsettling, passions long repressed emerge with tragic consequences . . .
Critics Review
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A remarkable and beautiful book
Daily Telegraph
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A remarkable novel. One in a thousand
Observer
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Like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca or Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Black Narcissus is one of those rare novels that combines huge popular appeal with emotional subtlety and literary skill
Anne Chisholm
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Godden's wonderful book sets out a complex vision of the variety, necessity and danger of desire, rendered into a story that is completely pleasurable. I envy anyone reading it for the first time.
Amanda Coe
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[Godden has] a genius for storytelling
Evening Standard
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[A] beautiful novel
Daily Mail
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All [Godden's novels] have one important thing in common: They are beautifully and simply wrought by a woman of depth and sensitivity
Los Angeles Times
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Details
- Author
- Rumer Godden
- Narrator
- Jilly Bond
- Duration
- 7 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9781405532174
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Religious and spiritual fiction
Synopsis
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