Akin
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Description
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 hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, 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 young boy who unpick their painful stories and embark on writing a new one together.
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This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hache to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, 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 young boy who unpick their painful stories and embark on writing a new one together.
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Product details
- CD-Audio
- 146 x 134 x 28mm | 239g
- 03 Oct 2019
- Bolinda Publishing
- Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
- Australia
- English
- Unabridged
- Simultaneous Release
- 1529034841
- 9781529034844
Review quote
'Time and again, Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before.' -- Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House 'Emma Donoghue is one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time. Her imagination is kaleidoscopic.' -- Colum McCann
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About Emma Donoghue
Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue (the literary critic). She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one eye-opening year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 she earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin (unfortunately, without learning to actually speak French). Emma then moved to England, and in 1997 received her PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. From the age of 23, she has earned her living as a writer, and has been lucky enough to never have an 'honest job' since she was sacked after a single summer month as a chambermaid. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 Emma settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with Chris Roulston and their son Finn and daughter Una. Jason Culp has been an actor since he was ten years old, with a variety of television, regional theatre and film roles to his credit. Over the past 14 years he has also put together a sturdy track record as a voiceover artist. Add to this his forays into cabaret singing and, more recently, his work on an elaborate memoir of his mad 70s upbringing, and you have yourself a well-rounded renaissance man.
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