pickVery charmed with the audiobook version of this book. I have the song stuck in my mind now. It's not always a good idea when authors do their own narration, but here it could hardly have been otherwise. Readers of a text only version are missing out on both music and the sound of the ocean.
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pick16-28 Sep 25
#Bookerlonglist25 No 11
A coming of age story of the teenage Jay spending a month on his family‘s dilapidated farm in 1990s Malaysia. Tash explores the conflicts between Jay‘s parents, between the urban and rural, and the paths open to the children of the middle class and the rural poor.
I enjoyed this easy read and its depiction of rural Malaysia, although it would not make my shortlist.
Interesting contrast with The Line of Beauty.
pick23-5 Aug 2015 (audiobook)
#Bookerlonglist25 No 6
What starts as a somewhat quirky story about the Ukrainian bridal industry and endangered snails, turns into a work of quite absurdist metafictjon
An interesting and entertaining read that I expect will be shortlisted and perhaps even win this year‘s Booker.
