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Good Girl

By: Aria Aber
Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
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 Bloomsbury presents Good Girl by Aria Aber, read by Mozhan Navabi.

**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025**
**A Time Book of the Year 2025**

A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can’t escape its history: an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery

‘Kaleidoscopic, full of style and soul’ Raven Leilani
‘Nila shines in her wildness, in her yearning for beauty and freedom' Guardian
‘A no-bullshit must-read debut’ Kaveh Akbar
‘Delicious, propulsive reading’ Vogue

Born in Germany to Afghan parents, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice. Now in Berlin’s techno-filled warehouses, their walls still scarred by the ravages of the last century, she has found her tribe.

Then Nila meets American writer Marlowe. As she is sucked into his seductive but controlling orbit, and ugly racial tensions begin to roil through Germany, she is forced to ask herself the question she’s been running from: who does she want to be?


‘A must-read ... breathtaking, profound, so fresh’ Guardian
‘Vivid, shockingly moving ... unwinds complex histories and legacies - of people, places and politics alike - with a deft touch’ Financial Times
‘With her novel, Aber has made the world more spacious: more people will find a place to fit’ New York Times
‘Once in a blue moon a debut novel comes along, announcing a voice quite unlike any other’ Los Angeles Times©2025 Aria Aber (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Genre Fiction Islamic Heritage Literary Fiction Women's Voices Funny
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It's been some time since I've read a character so fully realised. I cared about her deeply which made it a hard listen in some parts.

Wonderful

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There’s a lot to learn and appreciate in this but the above spoils it imo. The narrator does her best but would be better with more voices

Too much drugs, sex and techno

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This is a real story for so many. And, a beautiful journey into the fraught world of a second generation immigrant in a modern and divided world.

Outstanding coming of age

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A novel about migrant identity in 90s Berlin is festooned with constant drug taking. This undermines the character's desire to be an individual and I didn't finish tge book.

Drugs. Drugs. Drugs.

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Finished and this book isn’t really anything. I’m bored it’s repetitive and is reminding me of kairos, in termed of themes of power dynamics and toxic relationships. It’s a lot of sex drugs and identity politics. Not for me

Not for me but maybe a taste level

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