TransAtlantic

12 hrs. 3 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Colum McCann

Narrator Mikhail Roslyakov

Description

With his new novel, Colum McCann convincingly demonstrates why he is considered one of the most significant and interesting writers of his generation. A novel spanning continents and centuries, connecting fictional characters and real people into a single story.

Newfoundland, 1919. Pilots Jack and Alcock have conceived an epoch-making adventure—to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight. Dublin, 1845. Fugitive slave Frederick Douglass travels by sea from Boston to Dublin in order to tell the Irish what it is like to be someone else’s property, chained in chains. New York, 1998. Senator George Mitchell flies to Belfast as a mediator in negotiations for a ceasefire between the IRA and the British authorities. Men rush from America to Ireland to defeat injustice and end bloodshed. Three generations of women cross the Atlantic so that life can continue. They run from hunger, or they slowly swim across the ocean in search of themselves.

All lines will converge in one point, repeating the twists and turns of world tragedies. Transatlantic is Colum McCann’s most mature novel: a deep reflection on what History does to people—and how people change History. In the book, a many-faced and ambiguous History pours out through the personal fates of characters—both real and imagined—into a dense narrative about lives that were, are, or could have been… which, in the end, is much the same thing.