Fremder
Penguin Modern Classics
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Fremder
Narrated by:
David Wayman
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Narrated by:
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David Wayman
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Russell Hoban
About this listen
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On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the mysteriously vanished ship Clever Daughter. How did he get here? To find out, Fremder must search through memory, dream and the unknowable fragments of his own mind.
'Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine ... a revelation' Guardian
'A wildly imaginative piece of science fiction' The Times
'Unputdownable, moving, ingenious ... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time' A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard
© Russell Hoban 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critic reviews
Recalls Orwell's 1984 and Wells's The Time Machine.... a revelation.
Unputdownable, moving, ingenious... it will remain in my head with troubling images and scenes for a long time. (A. N. Wilson)
Shot through with Hoban's trademark luminous prose... A book to read and reread.
He displays prodigious storytelling skills and an uncanny talent for fleshing out allegories. The result is an urgent, bitterly ironic but tender evocation of the capacities of the human spirit.
A funky and funny tour de force.
A quirky, melancholy work, 'Fremder' is really a book about Becoming and the formation of identity; it just happens to use genre stylings to explore transitional states of matter and consciousness. Hoban thumbs his nose at traditional narrative structure, opting instead for a melange of Classical and Biblical allusion, references to Bach and Bizet, Judaism, neuroscience, theoretical quantum physics and Tin Pan Alley Pop. As with much of Hoban's work, this appears to be him expressing his general worldview and current interests through the prism of a novel; his persistent underlying themes connected by a seemingly random patchwork of ideas. This all makes it sound complicated and hard work but it's surprisingly compelling. Hoban is entertaining company and his central plot is a solid slice of hard sci-fi. In some respects the novel is reminiscent of 'The Centauri Device' or 'So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish', full of intergalactic doldrums and underwhelming answers to fundamental questions.
Surely not an easy book for a narrator to perform, David Wayman's reading really grew on me throughout; his tone, initially mournful, becomes filled with verve and brio as the story progresses. Admirable work.
Fremder in der Nacht
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