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    After Disasters
    After Disasters
    After Disasters
    Audiobook10 hours

    After Disasters

    Written by Viet Dinh

    Narrated by Sanjiv Jhaveri

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    About this audiobook

    Finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

    Beautifully and hauntingly written, After Disasters is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, who still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia conflict; Andy, a young firefighter eager to prove his worth; and Dev, a doctor on the ground racing against time and dwindling resources. Through time and place, hope and tragedy, love and lust, these four men put their lives at risk in a country where danger lurks everywhere.

    O. Henry Prize–winning author Viet Dinh takes us on a moving and evocative journey through an India set with smoky funeral pyres, winding rivers that hold prayers and the deceased, and the rubble of Gujarat, a crumbling place wavering between life and death. As the four men fight to impose order on an increasingly chaotic city, where looting and threats of violence become more severe, they realize the first lives they save might be their own.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9781511365888
    After Disasters
    Author

    Viet Dinh

    Viet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, as well as an O. Henry Prize. His stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Witness, Fence, Five Points, Chicago Review, the Threepenny Review, and the Greensboro Review.

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    • 2/5
      I found this book to by quite boring. The characters seemed flat and one dimensional. I also found the audio quite annoying as the reader seems to love putting on different accents.