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    The Color of A Dog Running Away
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    The Color of A Dog Running Away

    Written by Richard Gwyn

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

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    Lucas, a musician and translator living in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, comes home one day to find a cryptic invitation. When he appears at the appointed time, he sets in motion a series of bizarre, seemingly interconnected events that disrupt his previously passive existence. He meets the alluring Nuria and they begin an intense love affair. He is approached by a band of Barcelona's mythic roof dwellers and has a run-in with a fire-eating prophet.

    But when he and Nuria are kidnapped by a religious cult with roots stretching back to the thirteenth century, Lucas realizes that his life is spinning out of control. The cult's megalomaniac leader, Pontneuf, maintains that Nuria and Lucas are essential to his plan to revive the religion. While Nuria is surprisingly open to Pontneuf and his theories, Lucas is outraged and makes his escape. Back in Barcelona, Lucas wanders the streets in a drug-and-alcohol-induced haze, pining for Nuria and struggling to make sense of what has happened to him.

    With the alluring and enchanting Barcelona as a vibrant backdrop, THE COLOR OF A DOG RUNNING AWAY is a love story, tale of adventure, and historical thriller-an unforgettable and mesmerizing novel that will beguile and disturb in equal measure.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 20, 2007
    ISBN9781415938409
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    The Color of A Dog Running Away
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    Richard Gwyn

    Richard Gwyn was born in Pontypool on 22 July, 1956 and grew up in Crickhowell, Brecon-shire. After several years of self-abuse and heartache, he left London and spent the 1980s travelling, much of it recorded in his memoir, The Vagabond’s Breakfast, which won a Wales Book of the Year award in 2012. In 2005 he achieved bestseller status with his first novel, The Colour of a Dog Running Away (Parthian, 2005), which has since been translated into eight languages. Richard has since written two other novels, including The Blue Tent, and is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of them being Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure (2018).

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    • 1/5
      Totally pretentious.
    • 4/5
      Well I thought it was cool, and clever. Shades of Borges. Will be forcing a copy on at least one of my mates. Great prose, too. If you approach it with the understanding that it's a kind of upmarket, modern-day Dennis Wheatley, you'll enjoy it tremendously.
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      The digested read: I am too authentic to life to stay living in England with uninteresting English people. Beautiful, mysterious women perceive this and fall in love with me.Ugh.
    • 4/5
      Lucas' life takes a curious turn when he finds a strange postcard slipped under his apartment door. The sole inscription is a place and time. Drawn despite himself, he misses the meeting but connects with a beautiful women. The two fall deeply in love, but strange coincidences plague them. One night, Lucas and his girlfriend are abducted by a religious cult that believes them to be the reincarnated members of an obscure sect wiped out during the crusades. Held against their will for a few days in a remote mountain compound, they learn about the cult's bizarre beliefs. Lucas wants to escape but his girlfriend is intrigued. Are they reincarnated lovers from a previous life? Or does this cult have a more sinister purpose in mind for them?