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    The Casual Vacancy

    Written by J. K. Rowling

    Narrated by Tom Hollander

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    About this audiobook

    When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.

    Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war.

    Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems.

    And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

    A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle, Brown (Hachette UK) Audio
    Release dateSep 27, 2012
    ISBN9781405519212
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    The Casual Vacancy
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    J. K. Rowling

    J. K. Rowling es la autora de Harry Potter, la increíblemente popular serie literaria que forjó una época, así como de otras novelas independientes y de una serie de novela negra publicada bajo el seudónimo Robert Galbraith. Poco después de que la idea de Harry Potter se le ocurriese en un viaje de tren con retraso de 1990, ella esbozó la serie completa de siete libros y la escribió. El primero de ellos, Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal, fue publicado en el Reino Unido en 1997. Más tarde llegaron las adaptaciones al cine y la última de ocho películas, Las Reliquias de la Muerte: Parte 2, se estrenó en 2011. Los libros de Harry Potter han vendido más de 600 millones de copias en todo el mundo y se han traducido a más de 80 idiomas. Cada día, más y más lectores de las nuevas generaciones siguen descubriéndolos y disfrutándolos. Como complemento a la serie Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling escribió tres relatos cortos con fines benéficos: Quidditch a través de los tiempos y Animales fantásticos y dónde encontrarlos para ayudar a Comic Relief y Lumos; y Los cuentos de Beedle el bardo para ayudar a su organización sin ánimo de lucro para los niños Lumos. Uno de esos relatos cortos inspiró la serie de películas Animales fantásticos que se estrenó en 2016, cuyos guiones están escritos o coescritos por Rowling. También en 2016, Rowling colaboró con el autor de teatro Jack Thorne y el director John Tiffany para continuar la historia de Harry en una obra de teatro, Harry Potter y el legado maldito. Entre las novelas independientes de J. K. Rowling se encuentra Una Vacante Imprevista, publicada en 2012. Bajo el seudónimo Robert Galbraith publicó la aclamada serie «Strike», que cuenta la historia de los detectives privados Cormoran Strike y Robin Ellacott. En 2020 volvió a publicar una obra infantil, el cuento de hadas El ickabog, que originalmente se ofreció en línea de forma gratuita para los niños durante la pandemia de la Covid-19. El cerdito de Navidad, una historia de aventuras sobre el amor de un niño por su juguete más preciado y su convicción para encontrarlo, fue publicada en 2021 y se convirtió en uno de los títulos más vendidos en el Reino Unido, EE. UU. y Europa. J.K. Rowling no solo ha recibido un OBE y la Companion of Honour por sus aportes a la literatura infantil, sino que también cuenta con otros muchos premios y menciones de honor, tales como la Legion d'Honneur de Francia, el Prince of Asturias Award de España y el Hans Christian Andersen Award de Dinamarca. En 2020, Jo recibió un British Book Award que reconoce a Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal como el libro más importante de los últimos treinta años. J. K. Rowling apoya causas humanitarias a través de su fundación benéfica, Volant. También es la fundadora y presidenta de Lumos, una organización sin ánimo de lucro internacional que lucha por los derechos de todos los niños a tener una familia mediante mejoras a los sistemas de cuidados de todo el mundo.

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    • 5/5
      Very engaging. There are about ten people to remember while reading. At first it struck me how pathetic all the men in this book are. Later I realized this book could not be read other than as an exploration of levels and kinds of responsibility. The addict for his addiction, his children for theirs. Children in general for their actions. The wife of a child beater for her husband. An ocd man for his life and a lover for his love. Very good book.
    • 5/5
      Small-town politics. High-end drama. True-to-life characters. Both the Weedon and the Wall families are so freakishly true to real families I know that I would suspect the author of having borrowed their story for the sake of her own, if it wasn’t for the fact I don’t even live in the UK. I think that’s what I loved so much, the characters were absolutely true to life. I’ve known Krystal Weedon in my own small town, she’s just as complicated as this character in the book and so is her drug-addicted mother and her formidable Nana Kath. I was on the edge of my seat, cheering for Krystal the whole way! I know long-suffering Tessa and the very unlikeable Colin and their drop-kick son and I’ve rubbed shoulders with the toffy-nosed Mollison clan. And maybe that’s where my review will differ from others - I didn’t think this was a pointless narrative about a bunch of unlikeable people caught up in stupid, petty, small-town issues. Rather, the pettiness is satire at its best; small-town drama paints a dark backdrop against which the true issues of the story come alive. JK Rowling truly is a master. In a winding and suspense-filled plot each character developed in complexity but always remained true and faithful to him / her self. They say ‘It takes a village to raise a child’, and the story, in the end, hinged on the experiences of the teens and one small child growing up in Pagford. A totally satisfying read!
    • 5/5
      Sad, funny and shocking, it kept me interested right to the end.
    • 1/5
      It is about as entertaining as a small village fighting over an empty council seat as you would expect. Admittedly the story picks up at part 5. This book is not for the faint of heart. There is a lot of bad language and a highly disturbing rape scene which I feel should have had some warning in the books description or at the start of the book.

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    • 4/5
      A depressing book full of nasty characters doing nasty things. But it draws you in and you can't look away, like a trainwreck. Good page turner and very well-developed characters (though not one likable one!)