The Queen of the Night
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  • Published: 28 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405928021
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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The Queen of the Night

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21 Apr 2016
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28 Apr 2016
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26 Feb 2018
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Not since Patrick Suskind's Perfume has a work of fiction so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion . . .

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee, read by Rachel Bavidge.

Paris, 1882.

Lilliet Berne is a sensation, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role. When one is finally offered to her, she realises with alarm that the story is based on a hidden piece of her past.

Only four could have betrayed her.

A blazing tale of lust, ambition and revenge set in the glitzy, gritty world of Second Empire France, The Queen of the Night follows Lilliet as she transforms herself from circus rider to courtesan to empress's maid to stage ingénue, all the while weaving a web of passion and intrigue.
  • Published: 28 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405928021
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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Praise for The Queen of the Night

One doesn't so much read The Queen of the Night as one is bewitched by it

Hanya Yanagihara, author of the Man Booker shortlisted 'A Little Life'

A celebration . . . of creativity, ingenuity, endurance, mastery and grace

New York Times

An epic novel, brilliantly extravagant

Vogue

Lush and sweeping . . . A moving meditation on the transformative power of fate, art, time, and sheer survival

Publishers Weekly

Sprawling, soaring, bawdy and plotted like a fine embroidery

National Public Radio

It just sounds terrific. It sounds like opera

New Yorker

A night at an opera you'll wish never-ending

Helen Oyeyemi, author of 'Boy, Snow, Bird' and 'Mr. Fox'

An astonishing universe into which its lucky readers can dissolve completely

Karen Russell, New York Times best-selling author of 'Swamplandia' and 'Vampires in the Lemon Grove'

Utterly engrossing. You won't want to miss this

Bookish

A spellbinding story of intrigue and self-reinvention

Buzzfeed

Readers [will be] absorbed until the final aria, waiting to see whom fate will curse and whom it will avenge

Time

Richly researched and ornately plotted

Kirkus, STARRED review

A wild opera of a novel and the perfect summer read: swift, smart, immersive and gorgeous

Guardian