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Ingenious Pain
- Author
- Andrew Miller
- Narrator
- John Sackville
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 11 July 2019
- Run Time
- 10 hours 55 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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A wild adventure through 18th-century England and Russia, medicine, madness, landscape and weather, rendered in prose of consummate beauty
Independent
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A really remarkable first novel, original, powerfully written . . . Miller's narrative is gripping and his imagination extraordinary
Sunday Telegraph
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Astoundingly good . . . it shines like a beacon
The Times
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Timeless and thought-provoking . . . it is something very rare in modern fiction, a true work of art
Spectator
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Gripping . . . a dazzling debut
Observer
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Dazzling . . . Miller tackles notions of mortality and humanity to brilliant effect . . . truly wonderful
Evening Standard
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An extraordinary first novel . . . one is constantly delighted with strange and vivid imagery, fresh and startling metaphors, flashes of insight, deft twists of plot and resonant variations on dominant themes . . . a mature novel of ideas soaked in the sensory detail of its turbulent times
New York Times Book Review
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Exceptionally intelligent and elegant . . . remarkable for its feeling and its humane sensibility
Sunday Times
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A true rarity: a debut novel which is original, memorable, engrossing and subtle
Guardian
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Strange, unsettling, sad, beautiful and profound . . . the sense of period is brilliantly handled
Literary Review
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More than merits comparison with the likes of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Patrick Süskind's Perfume . . . a blistering debut
Time Out
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The novel's evocation of the period, down to the finest detail, is thoroughly confident . . . a startling novel
Independent on Sunday
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A finely wrought and provocative novel
Daily Telegraph
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Impressive
Mail on Sunday
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Details
- Author
- Andrew Miller
- Narrator
- John Sackville
- Duration
- 10 hours 55 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 July 2019
- ISBN
- 9781529361131
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: health and illness, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
Synopsis
The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine against smallpox, he meets his nemesis and saviour.(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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