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The Centaur’s Wife audiobook
- By: Amanda Leduc
- Narrator: Victoria Carr
- Category: Dystopian, Fiction
- Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Random House of Canada
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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The Centaur’s Wife Audiobook Summary
Amanda Leduc’s brilliant new novel, woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic, is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.
Heather is sleeping peacefully after the birth of her twin daughters when the sound of the world ending jolts her awake. Stumbling outside with her babies and her new husband, Brendan, she finds that their city has been destroyed by falling meteors and that her little family are among only a few who survived.
But the mountain that looms over the city is still green–somehow it has been spared the destruction that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Heather is one of the few who know the mountain, a place city-dwellers have always been forbidden to go. Her dad took her up the mountain when she was a child on a misguided quest to heal her legs, damaged at birth. The tragedy that resulted has shaped her life, bringing her both great sorrow and an undying connection to the deep magic of the mountain, made real by the beings she and her dad encountered that day: Estajfan, a centaur born of sorrow and of an ancient, impossible love, and his two siblings, marooned between the magical and the human world. Even as those in the city around her–led by Tasha, a charismatic doctor who fled to the city from the coast with her wife and other refugees–struggle to keep everyone alive, Heather constantly looks to the mountain, drawn by love, by fear, by the desire for rescue. She is torn in two by her awareness of what unleashed the meteor shower and what is coming for the few survivors, once the green and living earth makes a final reckoning of the usefulness of human life and finds it wanting.
At times devastating, but ultimately redemptive, Amanda Leduc’s fable for our uncertain times reminds us that the most important things in life aren’t things at all, but rather the people we want by our side at the end of the world.
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The Centaur’s Wife Audiobook Narrator
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The Centaur’s Wife Full Details
| Narrator | Victoria Carr |
| Length | 11 hours 54 minutes |
| Author | Amanda Leduc |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Random House of Canada |
| Release date | May 02, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781039001381 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Centaur’s Wife is Random House of Canada. includes the following subjects: dystopia, magical realism, mythology, dystopian fiction, fairy tales, folklore, fairy tale, fairytale, dystopian books, folk tales, fiction, novels, dystopian, fiction books, books fiction, folktales, magical realism books, magical realism novels, magical realism novel, magical realism fiction, fantasy, urban fantasy, horror, science fiction, thriller, paranormal, sci-fi, supernatural, romance, literary fiction, post apocalyptic, death, roman, philosophy, historical, mystery, magic, short stories, friendship, book club books, classic, Fiction, Dystopian, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology The BISAC Subject Code is Dystopian, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the The Centaur’s Wife is Random House of Canada. The imprint is Random House Canada. It is supplied by Random House of Canada. The ISBN-13 is 9781039001381.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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