{"product_id":"book-d87d","title":"Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Narrator Sheila Atim sets a sensitive yet emphatic tone for this harrowing story of violence, loss, and survival...Listeners will be enveloped in this emotional listening experience.\" — \u003ci\u003eAudioFile Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e Earphones Award winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis program is read by Laurence Olivier Award-winning actress, Sheila Atim.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was a girl once, but not anymore.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo begins \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century's greatest living authors, \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis an unforgettable story of one victim’s astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eGirl:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Edna O’Brien tells this story with such compassion and understanding that the very disturbing events she relates are uplifting—and unforgettable. An utterly unique achievement.” — Ian McKellen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By an extraordinary act of the imagination we are transported into the inner world of a girl who, after brutal abuse as a slave to Nigerian jihadis, escapes and with dogged persistence begins to rebuild her shattered life. \u003ci\u003eGirl \u003c\/i\u003eis a courageous book about a courageous spirit.” — J. M. Coetzee\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49375428510000,"sku":"BDd87d","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49375428542768,"sku":"40d87d","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/241742-d87d-Square.jpg?v=1734840765","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-d87d","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}