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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
If you could never stay, where would you go? – a dazzlingly epic debut novel that charts the adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe to outrun a mysterious curse
Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she begins to succumb to a mysterious illness.
When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. And so begins her incredible lifelong journey on the run from her condition.
From the scorched dunes of the Calanshio Sand Sea to the snow-packed peaks of the Himalayas; from a bottomless well in a Parisian courtyard, to the shelves of an infinite underground library, we follow Aubry as she learns what it takes to survive and, ultimately, to truly live. But the longer she wanders, the clearer it becomes that the world she travels through may not be quite the same as everyone else’s…
