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Everything I Don't Remember

By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Rachel Willson-Broyles - translator
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
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Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial.

A young man dies in a car crash – accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, contrived poser, loyal friend. But who was Samuel really, and what happened to him? In filling out the contours of his existence, the writer grasps at a fundamental question: how do we account for the substance of a life?

Winner of the August Prize, Everything I Don’t Remember is an International Bestseller. Read for you by Jack Hawkins, reader of Station Eleven.
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Critic reviews

'A generation-defining writer'
'My books of the year [include] Jonas Hassen Khemiri's enigmatic novel' (Joyce Carol Oates)
‘Heartbreakingly sad and laugh-out-loud funny . . . Its chorus of drifters, romantics and cynics stick in the memory, each competing to tell their own truth’ (Hari Kunzru)
'Unforgettable. In this non-putdownable puzzle of a story, Khemiri manages to both thrill and break your heart' (Gary Shteyngart)
'Khemiri's audacious and richly drawn novel pushes the boundaries of literary fiction . . . Beneath the structural pyrotechnics lies a broader story of imposition, appropriation and lack of individual agency: that of the immigrant experience' (Lucy Scholes, The National)
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