The Book Of Echoes
- Author Rosanna Amaka
- Narrator Weruche Opia
- Publisher Transworld
- Publish Date 27 February 2020
- Run Time 12 hours and 14 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre ‘Street’ fiction, Contemporary romance, Historical adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Magical realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Speculative fiction.
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Brought to you by Penguin.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARD
As featured on Graham Norton's Book Club
Narrated by the soul of an enslaved African woman, this is a searing debut novel about hope, redemption and the scars of history
Over two hundred years ago in Africa, a woman tosses her young son to safety as she is hauled away by slavers. After a brutal sea passage, her second child, a baby girl, is snatched away. Although the woman doesn't know it yet, her spirit is destined to roam the earth in search of her lost children.
Her spirit will make its way to modern-day England, where she watches teenage Michael trying to stay out of trouble as riots spit and boil on the streets of Brixton, and to a sun-baked village in Nigeria, where Ngozi struggles to escape her low-caste status.
As the invisible threads that draw these two lives together are pulled ever tighter, The Book of Echoes asks: how can we overcome the traumas of the past when they are woven so inextricably with the present? Humming with horror and beauty, Rosanna Amaka's remarkable debut marks her as a vibrant new voice in fiction.
'A searing, rhapsodic novel' IRENOSEN OKOJIE
© Rosanna Amaka 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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| Author | Rosanna Amaka |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Weruche Opia |
| Duration | 12 hours and 14 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781473577190 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Transworld |
| Genre | ‘Street’ fiction, Contemporary romance, Historical adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Magical realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Speculative fiction |
| Collections | Books by Women of Colour |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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