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    Blood Kin
    Blood Kin
    Blood Kin
    Audiobook5 hours

    Blood Kin

    Written by Ceridwen Dovey

    Narrated by James Jenner

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel is a stunning literary achievement and an acute character study of three men held captive after a military coup. All linked closely with the deposed president, the portraitist longs for his pregnant wife, the chef takes solace in preparing meals for the new regime, and the barber lives with the knowledge that he'd often held a razor to the throat of the man responsible for his brother's death.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 11, 2009
    ISBN9781436185042
    Blood Kin
    Author

    Ceridwen Dovey

    Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel, Blood Kin, was published in fifteen countries, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and selected for the U.S. National Book Foundation's prestigious 5 Under 35 honours list. She studied social anthropology at Harvard and New York University, and now lives with her husband and son in Sydney.Only the Animals won the 2014 Readings New Australian Writing Award. Her website is www.ceridwendovey.com

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    • 4/5
      Excellent. A tale of the peripheral actors in a coup, and of how things change yet stay the same.
    • 3/5
      For a freshman effort, this is a good book. The story kicks off as a dictator, of some unnamed country, is overthrown and locked up for his alleged tyrannical reign. But when the freedom fighters nab him, they also take the dictator's chef, barber and portraitist hostage. The entire story shifts between their memories and viewpoints and they, like everyone else in the book, are never given names. We only know them by their relationships to each other.The first half (of this short read) is great! Lots of insight into the human side and vanity of the dictator as seen through his closest servants. But, then the second degree of people begin to share their viewpoints. As short as the book is, we never get to enjoy them as much as we do the chef, barber and portraitist. It really feels like they get peppered in towards the end to help wrap up the plot in two or three quick twists all done in a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon sorta way.But I really enjoyed the first part of the book and I'm looking forward to the author's next book.
    • 3/5
      A weird, creepy little book.
      I won't say what it's about, because for me the best part was discovering that.
      Afterwards, it wasn't as interesting.