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How High We Go in the Dark
- Narrated by: Jason Culp, Stephanie Komure, Micky Shiloah, Joe Knezevich, Brianna Ishibashi, Kotaro Watanabe, Matthew Bridges, Kurt Kanazawa, Greg Watanabe, Jeanne Sakata, MacLeod Andrews, Keisuke Hoashi, Brian Nishii, Julia Whelan
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, read by Jason Culp, Stephanie Komure, Micky Shiloah, Joe Knezevich, Brianna Ishibashi, Kotaro Watanabe, Matthew Bridges, Kurt Kanazawa, Greg Watanabe, Jeanne Sakata, MacLeod Andrews, Keisuke Hoashi, Brian Nishii and Julia Whelan.
For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, Sequoia Nagamatsu's debut is a wildly imaginative, genre-bending work spanning generations across the globe as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague.
Dr Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter’s research, only to discover a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost. The plague unleashed reshapes life on earth for generations. Yet even while struggling to counter this destructive force, humanity stubbornly persists in myriad moving and ever inventive ways.
Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects - a pig - develops human speech; a man who, after recovering from his own coma, plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.
From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world. This is a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love, resilience and reinvention.
Critic reviews
"A powerfully moving and thought provoking read. At times sublime, strange and deeply human." (Adrian Tchaikovsky, best-selling and award-winning author of the Children of Time series)
"Haunting and luminous.... An astonishing debut." (Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta)
"Sequoia Nagamatsu is a writer whose imagination is matched only by his compassion, the kind we need to light our way through the dark." (Chloe Benjamin, best-selling author of The Immortalists)
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- T D H
- 25-11-23
Enjoyable and interesting
It's beautifully performed meloncoly and hopeful a wonderful read. I love how it loops and each story seems interconnected beyond the main setting.
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- Derek
- 08-06-23
Decent read
Very much enjoyed the first half but it tailed off a bit in the second. Thought provoking though not entirely original. I wouldn't put you off the purchase. Well performed by the cast.
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- Elizabeth
- 06-02-23
Fascinating
This is hard to categorise because it’s so unusual. Weaving different threads over time and space it does what few ‘pandemic’ novels manage - unsettle the reader in a completely different way. I’m being obtuse for a reason. Read it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-04-22
Something else!
Oh so kind of sad and somewhat relatable, engaging the mind.. in a world of countless possibilities. This is definitely something else..
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- Sarah
- 07-02-23
Difficult but intriguing
Very different to what I expected but mostly enjoyable if that’s the right word … incredible imagination by the author
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- Fionnuala King
- 31-08-23
Doesn't quite hit the spot
Lot of great ideas, some excellent chapters but dest quite flow or link together
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- Kindle Customer
- 21-01-23
good premise, good performances
it's a good book, lost me a bit in the middle, I know the stories are linked but I struggled getting into some of them, as a result a few probably passed me by. ending wrapped up nicely though.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-03-22
reminded me a lot of black mirror
was an interesting and eery medley of tales linked together through a sci fi plague. interesting concept and right level of dark and sensitive. quite cruel at times. original.
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- David Connor
- 13-01-23
Incredible
The collection of wildly varying short stories interweave seamlessly to create a masterpiece of world building. This really is a must read / listen.
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- Allen Mortimer
- 03-02-22
not for me.
I just didn't engage with the storyline , even though it was an intertwined concept, it just didn't come together for me.
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