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Leave the World Behind: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged. Rumaan Alam (Author), Marin Ireland (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) 3.6 19,157 ratings. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)
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Nov 9, 2020 · Leave the World Behind is an extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory. It’s no surprise that Netflix is working on an adaptation starring Denzel Washington and Julia...
Leave the World Behind is atmospheric and prescient: Its rhythms of comedy alternating with shock and despair mimic so much of the rhythms of life right now. That's more than enough to make it a signature novel for this blasted year. — Fresh Air.
Oct 6, 2020 · “Leave the World Behind” is Rumaan Alam’s third novel. David A. Land. Danger materializes, not from external threats, but from the breakdown of interior constructs. The body itself becomes...
Leave the World Behind is elegant, sensuous, thrilling, taut. It is an incisive examination of race and class, an absorbing story about what the beginning of the end of the world might look like. This novel is a towering achievement. Rumaan Alam’s prose is precise, pointed, gorgeous.
Oct 5, 2020 · “Leave the World Behind” is a coy little thing: a disaster novel without the disaster. Amanda, an advertising account director; her husband, Clay, a tenured professor and book critic; and...
Nov 22, 2023 · When Rumaan Alam's novel Leave the World Behind was first published in the fall of 2020, there was a wry irony to the ways in which its fictional world, ravaged by an alarming and...
