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The Colony

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The Colony

Von: Audrey Magee
Gesprochen von: Stephen Hogan
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He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea.

Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine - the authentic experience.

Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this place - one in his paintings, the other with his faithful rendition of its speech, the language he hopes to preserve.

But the people who live here on this rock - three miles wide and half-a-mile long - have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken and what is given in return. Over the summer each of the women and men in the household this French and Englishman join is forced to question what they value and what they desire. At the end of the summer, as the visitors head home, there will be a reckoning.

'The Colony is a vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sex, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee's strong prose.' Sarah Moss

The Colony is brimming with ideas about identity and soul; a canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read.' Lisa McInerney

©2022 Audrey Magee (P)2022 Faber & Faber Abenteuer auf See Belletristik

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"The Colony is a vivid and memorable book about art, land and language, love and sex, youth and age. Big ideas tread lightly through Audrey Magee’s strong prose." (Sarah Moss)

"The Colony is brimming with ideas about identity and soul; a canny, challenging, and never less than engrossing read." (Lisa McInerney)
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fantastic exploration of characters’ identity search, navigating themes of loneliness, nationality, cultural heritage, and personal relationships, all set against the backdrop of the Northern Irish conflict. A great work of literature!”look

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This book is about the colonizing of language and the narrator cleverly differentiated between the colonizers and the colonized. It was easy to tell who was speaking and what was being narrated. Too bad the book didn't get shortlisted for the Booker.

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