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Akin
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international best-selling author of Room.
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 11-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 haché 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 best seller, 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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- Catherine
- 01-09-20
Perfection
A wonderful painting of childhood, history and the wisdom of age. Beautifully read so that I was never jarred by either the old man or the young boys words. The ending was sublime. HIGHLY recommended
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- Linda A
- 21-01-20
Fantastic read
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to Jason reading Akin. Great story with a fabulous narrator. I couldn’t put it down
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- Aisling
- 07-11-19
Stick with it
It took me a while to get into this book. i was disappointed initially because i didn't think it was as engaging as Room or Frog Music, which i loved. As the story progresses, however I found i was drawn into it and really enjoyed it. I particularly liked the way she described Nice with all its beauty and all its shabbiness, tourist tat and dog dirt. The main character, Noah undergoes a fairly predictable, but none the less lovely, transformation in the course of his week.
The narrator is good and switches convincingly between a tired, 80 year old man and an 11 year old boy.
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- Spaghetti
- 03-10-20
loved it
wonderful story and be very moving, really loved both the main characters and the narration was perfect and just how I would imagine Noah's voice to be.
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- Pat Tobin
- 27-01-20
very atmospheric on a number of levels
I enjoyed this novel, having a strong sense of Noah in particular through a very good narration. Background to WW2 was good a while ending was somewhat inconclusive I think this made for a better story as that's how it is more often than not. And of course the whole other story with Michael was totally different and equally engaging.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-03-21
Loved it
I loved every minute of listening to this book and performance. Interesting and uplifting. One of my favourites.
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- Mari
- 15-04-24
Lovely book and wonderful narrator
A heartwarming tale with marvellous narration. (Must write 15 words, blah blah, get the book!)
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- olderversion
- 22-10-19
Outstanding
My personal experience was of an extraordinary story, exquisitely read. Slow and totally engaging.
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- AACCEOB
- 29-04-20
Excellent
I really enjoyed this book
Such a lovely description of how the elderly grand uncle came to understand and appreciate this boy who had none of the social graces but just a brilliant range of expressions and emotions , and really ended up teaching us all how to understand
children better
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- Mini Travellers
- 10-03-22
Loved
Short but very very sweet. Really enjoyed it. Very different to her others I thought.
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