Soul Tourists, Bernardine Evaristo
Soul Tourists, Bernardine Evaristo
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Soul Tourists

Author: Bernardine Evaristo

Narrator: Mercedes Snow

Unabridged: 7 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/14/2023


Synopsis

Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie: artiste, motormouth, ducker, and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe, bringing him face to face with a host of forgotten luminaries from the rich mix of black European history and literature.

Contains mature themes.

About Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardine Evaristo was born in London to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Her first novel, Lara, won the EMMA (Ethnic Multicultural Media Awards) Best Book Award in 1999. A former Poet in Residence at the Museum of London, she won an Arts Council of Britain Writers' Award in 2000.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katy

Evaristo's writing style is phenomenal, particularly in how she applies it to the characters personality, changing from prose to poetry to a fractured monologue. However, this book is not her best work. The character of Jessie was, in my opinion, completely insufferable and irritating in her manner,......more