Edinburgh, Alexander Chee
Edinburgh, Alexander Chee
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Edinburgh

Author: Alexander Chee

Narrator: Daniel K. Isaac, Josh Hurley

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2019

Synopsis

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone.Told with “the force of a dream and the heft of a life,” Edinburgh marked Chee “as a major talent whose career will bear watching” (Publishers Weekly).

About Alexander Chee

Alexander Chee is the author of two novels and the recipient of a Whiting Award and the National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, and on NPR, among others, and he is a contributing editor at the New Republic. He lives in New York City.

About Daniel K. Isaac

Daniel K. Isaac was born on December 5, 1988 in Fullerton, California. He is an actor and writer, known for Billions, Money Monster, and Too Big to Fail.

About Josh Hurley

Josh Hurley is an actor, improviser, AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, and writer. His audiobook credits include Saving Lucas Biggs and Where Things Come Back. He lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

A sad and powerful story of sexual abuse and human resilience. Twelve-year-old Aphias Zee (nicknamed "Fee"), a talented singer, joins a renowned boys' choir in Maine. While his Korean and Scottish ancestry sets him apart from his peers, his most horrid suffering ties them all together: Fee, like oth......more

Goodreads review by Read By RodKelly

There are certain books that so utterly evoke the depth of human emotions that all the trappings that make a novel what it is (plot, setting, characters) become secondary to the emotional landscape that the reader must traverse. This is a novel of total sensory immersion; right along with the charac......more

Goodreads review by Paul

What is so remarkable about Alexander Chee’s debut novel Edinburgh is that he does what is so very difficult to do: he takes what is ugly and despicable and creates a compelling, utterly truthful and, yes, an even beautiful story of it. By interweaving his prose with Korean folklore, Chee imbues the......more

Goodreads review by luce (cry baby)

Haunting, heart-wrenching, luminous, and lyrical, Edinburghis as beautiful as it is harrowing. It certainly my made my heart ache. Rarely have I read a novel that is able to capture with such precision and intensity the ways in which trauma affects one's memory and one's perception, of one's own se......more

Quotes

“[Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.” New York Times

“Haunting…complex…sophisticated. [Chee] says volumes with just a few incendiary words.” New York Times Book Review

“The best new novelist I’ve read in some time. Edinburgh is moody, dramatic—and pure.” Edmund White, author of The White Road

“A coming-of-age tale in the grand Romantic tradition, where passions run high, Cupid stalks Psyche, and love shares the dance floor with death…A lovely, nuanced, never predictable portrait of a creative soul in the throes of becoming.” Washington Post

“Arresting…profound and poetic…Chee’s voice is worth listening to.” San Francisco Chronicle

“Few coming-of-age novels truly stir one’s emotions or lead readers to consider the trauma of their own lives. Edinburgh does both.” Newsday

Awards

  • Publishers Weekly Best Book
  • Lambda Literary Award
  • Michener-Copernicus Fellowship
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