EPISODE · Sep 13, 2022 · 17H 34M
Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement [Written by Ian McEwan]
from Get New Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Drama · host Ian McEwan
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement Author: Ian McEwan Narrator: Simon Mcburney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love. His journey raises important questions. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape us and our memories? What role do chance and contingency play in our existence? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past? 'The supreme novelist of his generation' Sunday Times 'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times 'A true master' Daily Telegraph © Ian McEwan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/569253 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lessons: the new novel from the author of Atonement Author: Ian McEwan Narrator: Simon Mcburney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 34 minutes Release date: September 13, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers. While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love. His journey raises important questions. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape us and our memories? What role do chance and contingency play in our existence? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past? 'The supreme novelist of his generation' Sunday Times 'McEwan is one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose' New York Times 'A true master' Daily Telegraph © Ian McEwan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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