In Our Mad and Furious City A Novel

Guy Gunaratne, Ben Bailey Smith, Lou Marie Kerr

eAudio - 2018

"Narrators Ben Bailey Smith and Lou Marie Kerr expertly intertwine multiple first-person points of view in this gritty debut audiobook...Listeners unfamiliar with the dialects — Irish, Jamaican, and British among them — will be especially buoyed by the power of the performances." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerLong-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeInspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, and the rampant burning of mosques that followed, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edges of modern-day London. A crackling debut from a vital new voice, it pulses with the frantic energy o...f the city's homegrown grime music and is animated by the youthful rage of a dispossessed, overlooked, and often misrepresented generation.While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf organize their lives around...

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Published
Macmillan Audio
Language
English
Main Authors
Guy Gunaratne, Ben Bailey Smith, Lou Marie Kerr
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size195 GB
Parts6
ISBN9781250224521
Release Date12/11/2018
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size195 GB
ISBN9781250224521
Release Date12/11/2018