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"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 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
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“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…a powerful volume that may best be listened to in intervals. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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"[A] fearsome new novel.”
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“In Girl she…makes the daring choice to tell this terrible tale in the protagonist’s own words—an eighty-eight-year-old Irish woman speaking in the voice of a barely pubescent Nigerian girl.”
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“A feat of empathy and imagination.”
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“With unflinching detail, O’Brien describes barbaric murders and gang rapes and deep soul damage…There are flashes of beauty, wit, and succor here, too, as O’Brien’s extraordinary hero begins to heal in a land beset by psychotic violence.”
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“Succeeds in putting a personal face on an international tragedy.”
— Publishers Weekly
Awards
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An O Magazine Pick of Must-Read Books for Fall
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A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction
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One of the BBC’s Best Books of the Year
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A London Evening Standard Pick of the Year
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A Sunday Times (London) Best Book of the Year
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for NYPL Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2019
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Among longlisted titles for The Guardian (UK) Best Books of the Year, 2019
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About Edna O’Brien
Edna O’Brien (1930–2024) wrote numerous multiaward–winning books, including the Country Girls trilogy. Awards and prizes include the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, Writers' Guild of Great Britain, Premier Cavour (Italian), American National Arts Gold Medal, the James Joyce Ulysses Medal 2006, the 2019 David Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement in literature, and the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. She was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she also lived in London for many years.