Alentejo Blue [With Earbuds] (Playaway Adult Fiction) [Preloaded Digital Audio Player]

Monica Ali (Author), Anna Fields (Narrator)

Book Description

Series: Playaway Adult Fiction | Publication Date: September 2009

Monica Ali's stunning second book is a collection of stories set in the Alentejo province of Portugal, linked by characters and by a vivid sense of place and time.

Teresa is a beautiful young girl from the village who is supposed to marry a suitable man from the same community but who wants to see the world. Vasco is a café owner who is losing business to the new internet café down the road. The unseemly, dysfunctional, but strangely riveting Potts are a family of ex-patriots, trying to cobble a life together, at odds with one another until they run into trouble on the outside. We also meet several English tourists: a young couple engaged to be married and confronting each others weaknesses and idiosyncrasies for the first time, and an older woman imagining a new life, fantasizing about never returning home.

--This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The simultaneous sense of stasis and great change is Ali's forte, and her characters' perceptions are sharp." --Publishers Weekly --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

About the Author

Monica Ali has an astonishing ability to portray vastly different characters and to make them sympathetic. This is a writer of immense talent and humanity with an agile wit that makes reading her work a complete pleasure. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Product Details

• Preloaded Digital Audio Player
• Publisher: Playaway (September 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1433296187
• ISBN-13: 978-1433296185
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

More About the Author

Monica Ali was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and grew up in England. She has been named by Granta as one of the twenty best young British novelists. She is the author of the novel Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and is now a major motion picture, and Alentejo Blue, a story collection. She lives in London with her husband and two children.