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The Anomaly: A Novel Audiobook

Name: The Anomaly: A Novel Audiobook
Brand: Random House Audio
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Author: Hervé Le Tellier
ISBN: 9780593501122

By: Herv# Le Tellier, Hervé Le Tellier

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Read By: Dominic Hoffman Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: 10.50 hours at 1.0x Speed 7.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780593501122

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Publisher Description

Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight.

In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna, a formidable lawyer whose flaws have caught up with her; and Victor Miesel, a critically acclaimed yet commercially unsuccessful writer who suddenly becomes a cult hit.

All of them believed they had double lives. None imagined just how true that was.

A virtuoso novel where logic confronts magic, The Anomaly explores the part of ourselves that eludes us. This witty variation on the doppelgänger theme, which takes us on a journey from Lagos and Mumbai to the White House, proves to be Hervé Le Tellier’s most ambitious work yet.

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“A profoundly affecting examination of free will, fate, reality, and the meaning of existence, cloaked in a high-concept plot that could have come from The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror.”
— New York Times

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“Manifest meets Lost in The Anomaly…[a] puzzle box of a sci-fi thriller.”
— PopSugar
“An extraordinary mix of existential thriller and speculative fiction.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Awards

A New York Times Best Book of 2021 in Thrillers
Winner of the Prix Goncourt
A Crime Reads Pick of Best International Thrillers of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 in Thrillers
A Literary Hub Pick of Favorite Books of the Year
A PopSugar Pick of Best Mystery/Thrillers of the Month

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" The author had a pretty novel (no pun intended) idea here, and although a little slow starting off, it was done well enough to keep you interested. But when June met March, it quickly became painful to get through. One of the nice things about audio books is that you can increase the narration speed, makes it a lot easier (but still painful) to suffer through writing like this. "
— EP, 8/21/2022

About the Authors

Hervé Le Tellier is an author who, at the age of 64, with a decades-long career and several novels, essay and short story collections to his name, published his break-out hit, The Anomaly. In 2020, it was awarded the prestigious Prix Goncourt and was named a New York Times top 10 thriller of 2021. He is a writer, journalist, mathematician, food critic, and teacher. Since 1992, he has been a member of the prestigious and experimental Oulipo group of writers and mathematicians, who work to push against the boundaries of form and structure.

About Dominic Hoffman

Dominic Hoffman, winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration, is a Los Angeles–based actor of stage, screen, and television. He has appeared in such television shows as The Shield, NYPD Blue, and The Jamie Foxx Show. He attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art as well as the American Conservatory Theater.