The Swimmers: A novel (Unabridged) The Swimmers: A novel (Unabridged)

The Swimmers: A novel (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 3.4 • 11 Ratings
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    • $12.99

Publisher Description

From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool—a tour de force of economy, precision, and emotional power.

The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief.
 
One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline. Written in spellbinding, incantatory prose, The Swimmers is a searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss: the most commanding and unforgettable work yet from a modern master.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
TK
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
04:06
hr min
RELEASED
2022
February 22
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
248.9
MB

Customer Reviews

carrie schmitt ,

Obsessed with a crack no character development

So disappointing. Instead of diving into the character’s lives, this book waxes on and on about a crack while giving us superficial information about random characters with no depth. This trendy writing style of repeating and obsessing over an object while characters and plot take a back seat is reminiscent of The Measure by Nikki Erlick, which at least develops some story line. This drones on and on with boring lists and is trying too hard to be profound. It’s not. I thought I was going to go mad having to listen to this. I hope this genre of object fascination at the expense of actual storytelling is short lived.

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