
A Separation
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Katherine Waterston
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By:
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Katie Kitamura
A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club pick.
A New York Times notable book.
Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, and BookRiot.
“Kitamura’s prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with the tensions of a top-notch whodunit.” (Elle)
This is her story. About the end of her marriage. About what happened when Christopher went missing and she went to find him. These are her secrets; this is what happened....
A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: It's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart she's not even sure if she wants to find him. As her search comes to a shocking breaking point, she discovers she understands less than she thought she did about her relationship and the man she used to love.
A searing, suspenseful story of intimacy and infidelity, A Separation lays bare what divides us from the inner lives of others. With exquisitely cool precision, Katie Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on edge, with a fiercely mesmerizing story to tell.
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Critic reviews
“Kitamura is a writer with a visionary, visual imagination.... In A Separation, [she] has made consciousness her territory. The book is all mind, and an observant, taut, astringent mind it is.” (The New Yorker)
"A slow burn of a novel that gathers its great force and intensity through careful observation and a refusal to accept old, shopworn narratives of love and loss." (Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation)
“Fascinating, artful and atmospheric.” (Paula McLain, Parade magazine)
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The narrator should stick to bedtime stories
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I often find this a problem on Audible and now pay more attention to the performance in the samples before committing to purchase.
Terrible narration
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The mystery is our life
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monotonous narration....blah plot...
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Flat listening.
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That being said, this book is excellent in many ways and is definitely worth a credit. The voicing is superb and the narrator does a great job of diving into Kitamura's hypnotic tone. It is incredibly slow though, I was playing this at X1.4 speed and it was ideal but when I went down to normal speed it sounded ridiculous.
It is a literary exploration of grief, marriage, identity and infidelity. Kitamura is a master at exploring her character's (only one real character to speak of - the protagonist) emotions. She does so subtly, very subtly; tip-toeing around the immense tension and conflict inherent in this books primary situation. She doesn't confront the conflict head on, and that's where some listeners may be put-off, waiting for a big reveal or a titanic moment where it all clicks.
It doesn't click plot-wise like a twisty thriller would, but it did hit me hard somewhere more subterranean, maybe spiritual, maybe existential.
Not a Thriller, but Still Great
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Descriptive and Deep
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Rambling....
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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This book would be for someone who likes a very, very slow narrative with lots of description and inner rumination.How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator read the book v-e-r-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y and it was not unusual for it to be obvious that she was caught off guard that the sentence had not ended. So it sounded stilted.What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
The book was mostly annoying. If I were reading it, I don't think I would have finished it. I kept hoping that something would happen at the end to create an element of surprise, but it just plodded along until it finally petered out at the end.Not worth the price of admission
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