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The Porpoise

A Novel

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The Porpoise

Von: Mark Haddon
Gesprochen von: Tim McInnerny
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In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise, he finds himself travelling backward over 2,000 years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods.

Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.

©2019 Mark Haddon (P)2019 Random House Audio
Belletristik Familienleben Historische Romane Magischer Realismus

Kritikerstimmen

"Staggeringly ambitious, innovative, beautifully written.... The Porpoise has the pace of a really good thriller, combined with a subtlety and depth that few thrillers possess." (Pat Barker, author of The Silence of the Girls and the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road)

"A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery. Ancient and modern overlap in exhilarating ways, it's like romping through a literary Netflix: an episode of something historical and bloody, then something slick and contemporary, then something really weird and unnerving.... The Porpoise is a joy to read." (Max Porter, author of the International Dylan Thomas Prize-winning Grief Is the Thing with Feathers)

"Mark Haddon cuts down to the grittiness of humanity every time he writes. The Porpoise is a beautiful, unputdownable, ancient tangle with its own sweeping tides and dangerous depths." (Daisy Johnson, author of the Booker Prize finalist Everything Under)

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