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Girl: A Novel
Girl: A Novel
Girl: A Novel
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Girl: A Novel

Written by Edna O'Brien

Narrated by Sheila Atim

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

"Narrator Sheila Atim sets a sensitive yet emphatic tone for this harrowing story of violence, loss, and survival...Listeners will be enveloped in this emotional listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

This program is read by Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress, Sheila Atim.

Girl
, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.

I was a girl once, but not anymore.

So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century's greatest living authors, Girl is an unforgettable story of one victim’s astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart.

Praise for Girl:

“Edna O’Brien tells this story with such compassion and understanding that the very disturbing events she relates are uplifting—and unforgettable. An utterly unique achievement.” — Ian McKellen

“By an extraordinary act of the imagination we are transported into the inner world of a girl who, after brutal abuse as a slave to Nigerian jihadis, escapes and with dogged persistence begins to rebuild her shattered life. Girl is a courageous book about a courageous spirit.” — J. M. Coetzee

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 15, 2019
ISBN9781250254450
Author

Edna O'Brien

In more than twenty books, Edna O'Brien has charted the emotional and psychic landscape of her native Ireland; often criticized in her own country for her outspoken stance, she has forged a universal audience. Awards and prizes include the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Premier Cavour (Italian), American National Arts Gold Medal, and Ulysses Medal 2006.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    this is a beautiful tale of survival and the strength of a mother’s love. it is haunting. the voice of the narrator is like silk and draws you in to the story of man’s inhumanity and a woman’s ability to continue living in the face of terror.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    "I had to come, & I had to come alone, if ever I was to give myself the name of #Mother."