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Our Evenings

A Novel

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Our Evenings

Auteur(s): Alan Hollinghurst
Narrateur(s): Prasanna Puwanarajah
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 From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice)

“The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”—The Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR A LAMMY AWARD • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Town & Country, Slate, Good Housekeeping, Financial Times, The Economist, Chicago Public Library, Parade, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews

Did I have a grievance? Most of us, without looking far, could find something that had harmed us, and oppressed us, and unfairly held us back. I tried not to dwell on it, thought it healthier not to, though I’d lived my short life so far in a chaos of privilege and prejudice.

Dave Win, the son of a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities emerge, even as Dave is exposed to the envy and viciousness of his wealthy classmates.

Alan Hollinghurst’s new novel follows Dave from the 1960s on—through the possibilities that remained open for him, and others that proved to be illusory: as a working-class brown child in a decidedly white institution; a young man discovering queer culture and experiencing his first, formative love affairs; a talented but often overlooked actor, on the road with an experimental theater company; and an older Londoner whose late-in-life marriage fills his days with an unexpected sense of happiness and security.

From “one of our most gifted writers” (The Boston Globe), Our Evenings sweeps readers from our past to our present through the beauty, pain, and joy of one deeply observed life. 20e siècle Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature et fiction Célébrité
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A life lived and viewed from intersecting time points by Dave Win, an Anglo-Burmese actor. During six or seven decades he crisscrosses with the Hadlow family starting at 12 or 13 when they support his education at public school. The ups and downs of his family life, education, lovers and acting career are told as a series of vignettes. The prose is astonishing, full of melancholy, regret, hope, love and beauty. Hollinghurst’s familiar themes of class, prejudice, queer identity and politics are all here. The author has the rare skill of capturing the mood of time and place in poetic language within a couple of sentences. Our evenings of the title is explained towards the end by Dave’s husband but features in other contexts in the novel and could also be metaphor for looking back at a certain later stage of one’s life at previous events. This play on time and its mysterious shading and colouring of a life is prominent. I enjoyed going back to the preface at the end and re-listening to that brief encounter between Dave and Cara. The nuances of what is and isn’t said are more meaningful when you understand the novel as a whole. The narrator was fabulous and made for an excellent listen overall.

Breathtakingly beautiful

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