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TransAtlantic
- Narrated by: Geraldine Hughes
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents TransAtlantic by Colum McCann, read by Geraldine Hughes.
In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first nonstop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland.
In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. Stitching these stories intricately together, Colum McCann sets out to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
Critic reviews
"It is, simply, perfect." (Irish Examiner)
"Majestic." (Sunday Times)
"Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I’ve read in some time...A novel of true resonance and power." (Independent)