EPISODE · Aug 27, 2024 · 30 MIN
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu
from Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Sterling Sporer
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Minotaur at Calle Lanza Author: Zito Madu Narrator: Amir Abdullah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A 'hauntingly effective' surrealist travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all (Library Journal, starred review). Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family's difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his own rage and regret. But as it is with all labyrinths, after finding its center, will he come away unscathed, or will he transform into the gripping, fantastical monstrousness that's out to consume him whole? With nods to Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, this surrealist debut memoir takes us into the labyrinth of memory and the monsters lurking there.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Minotaur at Calle Lanza Author: Zito Madu Narrator: Amir Abdullah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 0 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A 'hauntingly effective' surrealist travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all (Library Journal, starred review). Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family's difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his own rage and regret. But as it is with all labyrinths, after finding its center, will he come away unscathed, or will he transform into the gripping, fantastical monstrousness that's out to consume him whole? With nods to Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, this surrealist debut memoir takes us into the labyrinth of memory and the monsters lurking there.
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