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Title: The Invisible Crowd
Author: Ellen Wiles
Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Ben Onwukue, Ellen Wiles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-02-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Fearless, uplifting and compelling, The Invisible Crowd is a powerful debut audiobook about loyalty, kindness - and the brief moments which define our lives.
2nd March 1975
In Asmara, Eritrea, Yonas Kelati is born into a world of turmoil. At the same time, on the same day, Jude Munroe takes her first breath in London, England.
Thirty Years Later
Blacklisted in his war-ravaged country, Yonas has no option but to flee his home. After a terrible journey, he arrives on a bleak English coast.
By a twist of fate, Yonas' asylum case lands on Jude's desk. Opening the file, she finds a patchwork of witness statements from those who met Yonas along his journey: a lifetime the same length of hers, reduced to a few scraps of paper.
Soon Jude will stand up in court and tell Yonas' story. How she tells it will change his life forever.
Members Reviews:
Excellent
A thought provoking and emotional listening experience. Enlightening and well written book with a few twists and turns along the way.
A mediation on being human: love, loss, grief and greatest of all, hope...
Multi-voiced novel which guides the reader through an asylum-seekers journey - that is many peoples stories woven together- to create a criss-cross tableau of what it is to be lost and found, to despair, to learn and most of all to hope. Each chapter narrated by a character- some you live with and develop over many chapters, others you meet for a tantalisingly brief time as they cross the protagonists path and change it and are changed by him. Even the briefest of characters has a warmth of individuality and uniqueness that stops them being stereotypes and those characters who remain are richly and deeply imagined: full of contradictions and background stories. The book is generous and big-hearted-taking its readers with it- informative and witty- never superior. Its a sustained emotional tour de force that challenges and moves the reader. An extra dimension is created in the audiobook by the extraordinary cast of voices with accents that never grate and a measured fluent pace. So realistic you feel you are in the coffee shop sharing each of their stories. It is almost a radio play in its interaction between characters. An inventive, daring, consummate novel that shares a real insight into human lives and your own heart.
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Title: The Invisible Crowd
Author: Ellen Wiles
Narrator: Adjoa Andoh, Ben Onwukue, Ellen Wiles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-02-17
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Fearless, uplifting and compelling, The Invisible Crowd is a powerful debut audiobook about loyalty, kindness - and the brief moments which define our lives.
2nd March 1975
In Asmara, Eritrea, Yonas Kelati is born into a world of turmoil. At the same time, on the same day, Jude Munroe takes her first breath in London, England.
Thirty Years Later
Blacklisted in his war-ravaged country, Yonas has no option but to flee his home. After a terrible journey, he arrives on a bleak English coast.
By a twist of fate, Yonas' asylum case lands on Jude's desk. Opening the file, she finds a patchwork of witness statements from those who met Yonas along his journey: a lifetime the same length of hers, reduced to a few scraps of paper.
Soon Jude will stand up in court and tell Yonas' story. How she tells it will change his life forever.
Members Reviews:
Excellent
A thought provoking and emotional listening experience. Enlightening and well written book with a few twists and turns along the way.
A mediation on being human: love, loss, grief and greatest of all, hope...
Multi-voiced novel which guides the reader through an asylum-seekers journey - that is many peoples stories woven together- to create a criss-cross tableau of what it is to be lost and found, to despair, to learn and most of all to hope. Each chapter narrated by a character- some you live with and develop over many chapters, others you meet for a tantalisingly brief time as they cross the protagonists path and change it and are changed by him. Even the briefest of characters has a warmth of individuality and uniqueness that stops them being stereotypes and those characters who remain are richly and deeply imagined: full of contradictions and background stories. The book is generous and big-hearted-taking its readers with it- informative and witty- never superior. Its a sustained emotional tour de force that challenges and moves the reader. An extra dimension is created in the audiobook by the extraordinary cast of voices with accents that never grate and a measured fluent pace. So realistic you feel you are in the coffee shop sharing each of their stories. It is almost a radio play in its interaction between characters. An inventive, daring, consummate novel that shares a real insight into human lives and your own heart.