CD Audiobook
Akin [sound recording] : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak-frites to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past, both of them come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another, and find they are more akin than they knew.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781549178207
- Physical Description: 10 audio discs (11.5 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 inches
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Audio, [2019]
- Copyright: ℗2019
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jason Culp. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Retirees > Fiction. Older people > Fiction. Conflict of generations > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Kinship > Fiction. Nice (France) > Fiction. Riviera (France) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Domestic fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | CD FIC Donog | 31681010172435 | CDFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A retired New York professorâs life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera in hopes of uncovering his own motherâs wartime secrets. By the best-selling author of Room. Read by Jason Culp. Simultaneous. - Baker & Taylor
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to Nice, where he plans to look into his own mother's wartime activities after uncovering a handful of puzzling photographs from her wartime years. - Grand Central PubThis "soul stirring" novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Room (O Magazine) is one of the New York Post's best books of the year.Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone to look after him. Out of a feeling of obligation, Noah agrees to take Michael along on his trip.Much has changed in this famously charming seaside mecca, still haunted by memories of the Nazi occupation. The unlikely duo, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, bicker about everything from steak frites to screen time. But Noah gradually comes to appreciate the boy's truculent wit, and Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family's past. Both come to grasp the risks people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room an international bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy, born two generations apart, who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together."What begins as a larky story of unlikely male bonding turns into an off-center but far richer novel about the unheralded, imperfect heroism of two women." -- New York Times
