#ElderlyRelative is listening to #AudioBook #TheHouseOfDoors by #TanTwanEng.
Hmmm.
Why would the reader/performer of the prologue say "Droenfontein".
Isn't it #Doornfontein?
So now I've got ongoing doubts about the performer's faithfulness to the book and the accuracy of any emphasis they make in their speech.
Don't know how much audiobook performers get paid. Maybe it isn't enough to get correct pronounciation happening for unfamilar words?
And where is their editor?
"Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion,
This pilot is guiding me,
Lured by the love of the genii that move
In the depths of the purple sea;
Over the rills, and the crags, and the hills,
Over the lakes and the plains,
Wherever he dream, under mountain or stream,
The Spirit he loves remains;
And I all the while bask in Heaven's blue smile,
Whilst he is dissolving in rains."
Extract from The Cloud by Percy Bysshe Shelley
#AmReading #Fiction #TanTwanEng
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45117/the-cloud-56d2247bf4112
@CassandraHouseofPriam @bookstodon
OMG, OMG, OMG!! #TanTwanEng wrote another book!?! The Garden of Evening Mists is one of my all-time favourite books and I've read it at least twice!
Ugh, the only #audiobook options I found are owned by #BoycottBezos so I'll have to be patient and keep searching for it.
Commencing the marathon of reading the #Booker long list this year with #TanTwanEng's #TheHouseOfDoors. I was unsure about this seemingly traditional historical novel but was beguiled and left totally satisfied by the end. It's poetic pages hold multiple layers of reflection on love, marriage, betrayal and the nature of writing. @bookstodon
Read the Booker Prize 2023 longlist: an extract from The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng | The Booker Prizes
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/read-the-booker-prize-2023-longlist-an-extract-from-the-house-of-doors
