Night Boat to Tangier
Ratings11
Average rating3.7
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Ratings11
Average rating3.7
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEIRISH NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR EASON NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR RTÉ RADIO ONE LISTENERS' CHOICE, IRISH BOOK AWARDSA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A true wonder' Max Porter'Beautifully written' GuardianIt's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder - can it be put together again?
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I almost didn't want to give this a rating because I don't think I really gave it a good effort. I listened to the audiobook on loan from the library and it just didn't really hold my attention, to be honest.
There's some nice passages in here and I enjoyed the narration by the author, but I could barely even tell you what the plot was if pressed. It was quite short (~6 hours), so I actually might give it another shot sometime and come back and revise this.
DNF at 40%, felt sort of like rereading En Attendant Godot so it wasn't for me.
Very referential of Waiting For Godot, but where that could easily become depressing or monotonous in the wrong writer's hands, this is a beautifully written book with its own unique world, language, and structure. Contained possibly the most beautiful paragraph I've read in years.
Took me a bit to get into it but loved it then. Great story, wonderfully told. Interesting and unpredictable. I thought it read like a screenplay at times and sure enough there's a movie in the works, should be class.
