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Arcadia audiobook

  • By: Iain Pears
  • Narrator: John Lee
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 20 hours 10 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
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Arcadia Audiobook Summary

From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. 

Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future—or the past?

In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten’s cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds herself in an idyllic, pastoral land where Storytellers are revered above all others. There she meets a young man who is about to embark on a quest of his ownand may be the one chance Rosie has of returning home. These breathtaking adventures ultimately intertwine with the story of an eccentric psychomathematician whose breakthrough discovery will affect all of these different lives and worlds. 

Dazzlingly inventive and deeply satisfying, Arcadia tests the boundaries of storytelling and asks: If the past can change the future, then might the future also indelibly alter the past?

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Arcadia Full Details

Narrator John Lee
Length 20 hours 10 minutes
Author Iain Pears
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 27, 2024
ISBN 9780399567735

Subjects

The publisher of the Arcadia is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: arcadia, future, fiction, Oxford, fantasy, alternate reality, parallel worlds, espionage, political intrigue, corruption, elites, dystopian, speculative fiction, scientists, science, time travel, discovery, technology, science fiction, sci-fi, literary fiction, sci fi, science fiction books, sci fi books, novels, travel gifts, fiction books, time travel books, gifts for travelers, fantasy books for adults, travel gift, travel gifts for women, travel gifts for men, literature, time travel fiction, science fiction and fantasy, Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the Arcadia is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780399567735.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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