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Night Boat to Tangier
- Narrated by: Kevin Barry
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
Gloriously freewheeling – Guardian
It's a Kevin Barry novel, so the brilliance is expected; everything else is a brilliant surprise – Roddy Doyle
The gods of literature, who have so much love for Ireland, are sweet on Kevin Barry – Richard Beard
It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?
Night Boat to Tangier is a novel drenched in sex and death and narcotics, in sudden violence and old magic, but it is obsessed, above all, with the mysteries of love. A tragicomic masterwork from a multi-award-winning writer, Night Boat to Tangier is both mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with menace.
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Critic reviews
“Barry is a marvel: menacing, insistent, switching from brooding descriptions of the men’s nocturnal surroundings to their terse dialogue. The conviction with which he explores their search for Charlie’s missing daughter never fails.” (Financial Times, Audiobooks)
"A true wonder." (Max Porter)
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- Ciara O'Neill
- 14-06-20
Narration matters!
Polarised reviews here re narration piqued my interest. So glad I listening to the author deliver his story!
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- eoin73
- 27-08-19
Polm from Morocco
This book draws you in, and in.
So close, you can taste it.
Polm from Morocco, by the chillum loaf.
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- Rachel
- 08-10-20
Waiting with the Boys
I found Beatlebone wonderful so I didn't hesitate to get this book. And what a treat it is. I usually like a long listen, and this is very short, but deliciously rich. Barry's voice is wonderful - I live in Ireland and love every version of the accent, from Belfast to Cork, from Dublin to Leitrim (my home ground). His language is glorious: we know these men, the way their lives are tangled together, their strange histories, the choices that have led them to be waiting for the boat from Tangier. I loved every moment, heart-breaking, funny, dark and authentic. The true bliss of the early days of opiate addiction - with it's slippery slide down into the drowning endless need was amazingly well portrayed. These two men are so frightening and yet so fragile. This is a truly beautiful book, narrated to perfection. I will be listening again.
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- snoopy
- 26-11-22
A Wonderful listen
A gripping story narrated by the author in a wonderful Cork accent. I was spellbound by the language and descriptions. It’s the best package I’ve read or listened to in many years.
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- RD
- 26-07-19
Better read than listen
Switched between reading and listening and I have to say the reader ruined it for me. the pacing was wrong and the prosody sometimes hysterical. good story. probably shouldn't win the Booker. definite influences from Beckett (Godot) and some brilliant single lines ("there wasn't a sparrow safe for miles"). Barry has a brilliant comic sense. But, it is not matched by his darkness.
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- E. O. Callaghan
- 21-07-19
Utterly brilliant
Fantastic pleasure to read!
Must listen to again and then again!
Such characters, such writing, such enjoyment!
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- Mark
- 30-12-20
A Thing of Rare Beauty
There have been mixed opinions regarding the narration of this novel with some taking against the style of the author's narration. I have to say I really enjoyed his voice. I listened with headphones and felt a deep connection with the lyrical lilt of the Cork accents. Many have compared the writing to Beckett and Joyce and I appreciate these comparisons. What I most enjoyed was the two old gangsters joining forces, after a mixed life of crime, on a doomed mission and their sense of time lost and time passing. I also loved the female perspectives and would have liked more of their insights. Descriptions of landscape are gorgeous and tremendously evocative. All in all I found this a truly engaging and moving novel. As I've said, I enjoyed the narration but if you are one of the few who don't then I'd urge you to read it in book form so as not to deny yourself the rich and rewarding pleasures of the novel.
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- Mihaly Tutor
- 08-03-20
Whispering ruins it
I found it very annoying that the author read it out whispering all the way through. Good book but it spoiled the experience.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-22
superlative, perfect in all parts
mesmeric, perfectly freighted, weighted and narrated. Genuinely faultless and perfect for audio instead of text
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- cairns
- 24-08-23
The port of UHOA!
I should have read this rather than listened.
Enjoyed the story, the sentiment and the flowery blarney.
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