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Choice
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- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand, Antonio Aakeel, Shaheen Khan
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
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An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR).
"How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her life to veer in an unexpected direction. Another author, an economist, describes how the gift of a cow to an impoverished family on the West Bengal-Bangladesh border sets them on a startling path to tragedy.
Together, these connected narratives raise the question: How free are we really to make our own choices? In a scathing, compassionate quarrel with the world, Neel Mukherjee confronts our fundamental assumptions about economics, race, appropriation, and the tangled ethics of contemporary life.
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It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"—ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and “bad apples”: the Greens. At their heart sits Carmel: beautiful, otherworldly, broken, and once destined for a future beyond her circumstances.
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Extraordinary performance ! Love Irish literature
- By Lighthouse on 05-10-24
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Change
- A Novel
- By: Édouard Louis
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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Édouard Louis longs for a life beyond the poverty, discrimination, and violence in his working-class hometown-so he sets out for school in Amiens, and, later, university in Paris. He sheds the provincial "Eddy" for an elegant new name, determined to eradicate every aspect of his past. He reads incessantly; he dines with aristocrats; he spends nights with millionaires and drug—dealers alike. Everything he does is motivated by a single obsession: to become someone else.
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Asymmetry
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Halliday
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Arthur Morey, Fiona Hardingham, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly", tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War.
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This is not a fair review. Doesn’t work in audio format.
- By Elizabeth on 02-16-18
By: Lisa Halliday
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Fervor
- A Novel
- By: Toby Lloyd
- Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric’s father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and evil) in daily life.
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Must listen - read - one of the best
- By A. Burley on 06-07-24
By: Toby Lloyd
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Green Dot
- A Novel
- By: Madeleine Gray
- Narrated by: Sasha Simon
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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At twenty-four, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She’s sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet—a role even more mind-numbing than it sounds—introduces her to Arthur, a middle-aged journalist. Though she's preferred women to men for years now, she soon finds herself falling into an all-consuming affair with him.
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great writing but horrible story
- By Nina Petelina on 05-08-24
By: Madeleine Gray
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- David
- 06-01-24
Three Disparate Takes
“Choice” is more like three novellas than one novel, all strong and subtle. I will comment separately on each.
In the first, a man named Ayusha works in London publishing. He gradually chooses to live selflessly, eliminating meat, plastic and other modern conveniences from his life. This has an adverse impact on his economist husband Luke and their twins, Masha and Sasha. Ayusha becomes increasingly obsessed, while Luke tries to retain their careful life. The story is wild and sometimes upsetting, but Ayusha’s actions are rational from his perspective—rational but dangerous.
In the second story, a middling London professor is involved in a possible hit-and-run with her gig driver. She becomes obsessed with the driver, an Eritrean immigrant, as well as her British family’s role in India during the British Raj. She didn’t show much self-awareness, to me, and I found her choices annoying and her story the least interesting.
The third story is fascinating. An impoverished family in rural India is gifted a cow by a nongovernmental organization to lift them out of poverty. The unintended consequences are sometimes amusing, sometimes heartbreaking. As in the other stories, they raise questions about hopeful choices that result in, well, problems. The mother and her two children are beautifully drawn, fully sympathetic and good company.
Neel Mukherjee is a favorite writer. His novels are political, in the sense that governing policies and economics guide his characters, but never didactic or hectoring. He creates ethical challenges for his characters, but again he does it subtly and without bombast. Mukherjee gets people—their needs, their motivations, their frustrations. His earlier novel, “The Lives of Others,” was long but compelling, with beautifully realized characters from all economic backgrounds. “Choice” is shorter but similarly thoughtful and enjoyable.
The three narrators were uniformly excellent.
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