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Brazzaville Beach

Yazan: William Boyd
Seslendiren: Pippa Bennett-Warner
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WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE

On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater ponders the strange circumstances that led her to leave her husband John, and his mathematical obsessions, in England and venture to Africa to help world-renowned scientist Eugene Mallabar with his studies of wild chimps.

But the more Hope studies Mallabar, the more she comes to believe that something isn't right. That behind Mallabar, and his obsessive work, there lies another, more sinister truth: one that might also help explain Hope's reasons for leaving England . . .

'A brilliant storyteller . . . a book which stretches, tantalizes and delights' Financial Times

'A most extraordinary parable about mankind. Quite unlike anything else I have read' Sunday Express

'Brilliant, daring. A gripping and compulsive story' Herald

'Hilarious and edgy' Sunday Times

© William Boyd 1990 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Excellent book, thoughtful and insightful, touching on a wide variety of subjects supported by great narration.

My book of the year

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
Boyd is a lovely writer but I found the fight passages too graphic. It was also disheartening to have the discovery of a woman relegated to a footnote. An accurate depiction of the world but disheartening to be reminded.

A bit too graphic at times

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This version epitomises a bugbear growing steadily worse in my listening experience: a beautiful trained voice emerging from a grotesquely under-educated mouth. I believe this may be the result of young people aspiring to be actors too early in their education, and finishing up as someone with perfect elocution and a very poor grasp of the English language. The mispronunciations of long words are legion here; at least one per page, and I don't exaggerate. One example of dozens: tributaries pronounced 'try-beautaries' with the accent on the first syllable. Ms Bennet-Warner clearly has never seen the word before and has no idea what it means. 'Secede' pronounced as 'succeed'. Another: Danube pronounced 'de-noob' with the accent on the second. At least someone pointed this out to her and she corrected it in the second half of the book, but to not go back and edit in correct pronunciations I consider cheap and dismissive of the reader. Not acceptable. William Boyd must be furious,

A great and famous book, bizarre narration

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This was a story of limited appeal. Tensions and dilemmas less than enthralling and characters of stock middle-class sensibilities without deeper or wider resonance. Thematically ok but more playing with ideas than gripping and intriguing. After enjoying audio versions of several Boyd books this was underwhelming. Despite a good voice the reader seemed to be rushing and I found the high level of mispronunciation and faulty emphasis distracting and annoying. This is always a possible scenarion given Boyd’s wide range of diction but it is nonetheless a weakness.

Muted drama

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Worth a listen, I liked the story but it doesn't touch 'ordinary thunder storms'.

The narrator brings this book to life.

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