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  • Published: 6 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781802067217
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

Go Tell it on the Mountain





\"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!\" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.

  • Published: 6 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781802067217
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

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Praise for Go Tell it on the Mountain

It broke my heart and made me want to jump up and down... It captures an essential aspect of life in America, its contradictions and seductions, that bittersweet mix of love and hate that so many feel towards the country

Azar Nafisi, Independent

His prose hit me, almost winding me with its intensity. I'd never read a novel that described loneliness and desire with such burning eloquence

Douglas Field, Guardian

Vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details

The New York Times

A beautiful, enduring, spiritual song of a novel

Andrew O'Hagan

One of the few essential novelists of our time

New Statesman