- Audiobook
- 2021
- 6 hrs
- Bloomsbury Publishing
Title
Asylum Road
Description
Bloomsbury presents Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic, read by Helen Keeley.
'I will go wherever she takes me. A phenomenal book' DAISY JOHNSON
'A brilliant, scalding novel ... sharp, intricately layered, impossible to forget' MEGAN HUNTER
'Stunning ... beautifully written and deeply unsettling' BOOKSELLER, EDITOR'S CHOICE
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A couple drive from London to coastal Provence. Anya is preoccupied with what she feels is a relationship on the verge; unequal, precarious. Luke, reserved, stoic, gives away nothing. As the sun sets one evening, he proposes, and they return to London engaged.
But planning a wedding does little to settle Anya's unease. As a child, she escaped from Sarajevo, and the idea of security is as alien now as it was then. When social convention forces Anya to return, she begins to change. The past she sought to contain for as long as she can remember resurfaces, and the hot summer builds to a startling climax.
Lean, sly and unsettling, Asylum Road is about the many borders governing our lives: between men and women, assimilation and otherness, nations, families, order and chaos.
What happens, and who do we become, when they break down?
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Product details
Publisher:
Author:
Title:
Asylum Road
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Language:
EN
ISBN Audio:
9781526625960
Publication date:
February 24, 2021
Keywords:
Deborah LevyHot MilkThe Man Who Saw EverythingBrexitUnsettlingGwendoline Rileyfirst loveEmily BerryJia TolentinoTrick MirrorMillennialSarajevoBalkansSeigeTraumacompulsiveDays of AbandonmentSympathyExposureOlivia LaingCrudoWhen I Hit YouMeena KandasamyExquisite CadaversJessie GreengrassRachel CuskMary GaitskillJessica AndrewsSaltwaterNaoise DolanExciting TimesStrange HotelEimear McBridgeSamanta SchweblinrelationshipsMoneyinequalitySarah MossGhost WallSummerwaterlisa taddeoPatricia LockwoodAvni DoshiBurnt Sugarraven leilaniLusterJessica Andrews Saltwater
Duration
6 hrs
Product type
AUDIO
Explicit:
No
Audio drama:
No
Unabridged:
Yes
About the author:
Olivia Sudjic is a writer living in London. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardianand the Paris Review. She is the author of Exposure, a personal essay, and Sympathy, her debut novel, which was a finalist for the Salerno European Book Award, the Collyer Bristow Prize and has been translated into five languages.