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Title: The Banyan Tree
Author: Christopher Nolan
Narrator: Fiona Shaw
Format: Abridged
Length: 6 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 06-30-00
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Covering the 80-plus years of the life of Minnie O'Brien, who is bound to take her place in literature alongside James Joyce's Molly Bloom, The Banyan Tree is a rich saga of rural Ireland in the 20th century. In distinctly layered prose that has been compared to that of Joyce, Yeats, and Dylan Thomas, Nolan lovingly details the life and times, the triumphs and tragedies, of this spirited woman. Married in 1922 to Peter O'Brien, a good and decent man who nonetheless harbors a terrible secret, Minnie bears him 3 children. Francis, the youngest, leaves home at age 17 to wander the world in search of fame or fortune. It is for him - Minnie's favorite, the prodigal son - that she jealously struggles to keep the five fields willed her by her husband from the clutches of her ambitious and unscrupulous neighbor Jude Fortune. The Banyan Tree is feisty and colorful, filled with humor and love - and demonstrates forcefully that the gentle world of Minnie's youth is gone forever.
Original Text ©1999 by Christopher Nolan, All Rights Reserved; Abridgement and Recording © & (P) Orion Publishing Group Ltd. 1999, ©2000 by Time Warner AudioBooks (Packaging Elements Only), A Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing
Critic Reviews:
"A perfectly crafted, exquisitely written story..." (Publishers Weekly)
