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Shuggie Bain

Von: Douglas Stuart
Gesprochen von: Angus King
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' AND 'DEBUT OF THE YEAR' AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

'An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.' – The judges of the Booker Prize

'Douglas Stuart has written a first novel of rare and lasting beauty.' – The Observer

'Shuggie Bain means so much to me. It is such a powerfully written story . . . I love a heartbreak book but there is so much love within this one, particularly between Shuggie and his mother Agnes.' – Dua Lipa

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves.

It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different, he is clearly no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.

Shuggie Bain lays bare the ruthlessness of poverty, the limits of love, and the hollowness of pride. For readers of A Little Life and Angela's Ashes, it is a heartbreaking novel by a brilliant writer with a powerful and important story to tell.

'A heartbreaking novel' – The Times

'Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie . . . leaps off the page.' – Daily Mail

©2020 Douglas Stuart (P)2020 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd Belletristik Coming of Age Familienleben Großstadtleben

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empfehlenswert. lustige Momente in dieser traurigen Geschichte.
Schottischer Akzent des Sprechers macht es boch authentischer.

Heartbreakingly sad but beautiful

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The story is not easy to take, heartbreaking, a page turner, excellently written. If you get the audio, it’s read fabulously, one of the best, giving the story even more life.

Excellent on many levels

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Man fühlt mit, leidet mit und kann sich eine solche Kindheit kaum vorstellen. Toll geschrieben, toll erzählt.

packend

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Muy clavado a la vida en Glasgow de la gente en pobreza de aquel entonces

Buena historia con un narrador perfecto

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Eine rührend traurige Geschichte fantastisch erzählt, sicher seit langem das beste Buch, was ich hören durfte, uneingeschränkt empfehlenswert!

Großartig!!

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The reader brought the story to life. Beautifully read. The story had me in tears - walking along the street on my way to work!

Absolutely amazing reading performance. Just brilliant.

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Don't read this when you're feeling down. This is the dark wee brother of Trainspotting. Rather slow paced, it draws you more and more into the abyss of a dysfunctional family circling around their tragic drinking mother. I lovehated it very much.

Depressingly beautiful

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I didn't think I would listen to the book until the end, the atmosphere was so frightening and intense even in the first quarter of an hour. But I was captivated by the story and its characters, as well as by the language. Simply great! I would love to see this book made into a film.

Intense, strong story

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The story of Shuggy is also the Agnes‘ story, a woman who was brought up well but who fell to the wayside because of her weakness for the bottle combined with her gullibility for the bad boy who could show her a good time which ultimately led to her demise.

The unsettling element is that so many children were impacted by her actions, her awful second husband’s spite and that she had so many people against her for being a little bit different, acting above her station, being an attractive woman who cared about her appearance.

Self-preservation drove daughter Catherine away to what was hopefully a happier life far, far away in South Africa, Agnes’ self-destruction removed the elder son, whose life and talent had already been spoiled by his mother, from her grasp leaving just poor, friendless Shuggy who was also a little bit different.

This book had me laughing, cringing and shedding unwilling tears at its rawness, crudeness and innate sadness. Poverty and abuse were rife during this era as I grew up not so far away, also from humble origins and in part, surrounded by people not so dissimilar. I counted my blessings at having escaped the horrors of a life like that, living on the edge, surrounded by people who didn’t know any better way than to be so downright nasty.

As my own wee boy yesterday couldn’t decide between swimming and bowling, I found myself making a very strong comparison to the life of Shuggy Bain, a wee boy with nothing who tried to care for his beloved mammy.

The story is simple, the magic is in the details that transport you into the moment, the cringe is in the vernacular. At times toe-curling, you find yourself rooting for Agnes, praying for Shuggy to win, hoping for a happy end despite the hopelessness of the situation.

Moving, awaking of old memories, with a twist of humour

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The moment I started listening to the novel I expected it to win this year‘s Booker price. The profound characterization of the Bain family, the empathic description of Agnes Bain‘s constant strains to stop drinking and attempts to get healed from her alcohol addiction, Shuggy‘ s dilemma to leave his mother and live his own life or to stay with her is sometimes unbearable. But every word is worth reading so that I can highly recommend this wonderful novel.

An outstanding but very sad story

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