Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
Audiobook17 hours
Sparrow
Written by James Hynes
Narrated by Theo Solomon
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, this is a stunning literary historical novel of identity, family, suffering, and freedom.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDreamscape Media
Release dateAug 8, 2023
ISBN9781666645484
Author
James Hynes
JAMES HYNES is the author of Next, The Lecturer’s Tale, and Publish and Perish. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Mother Jones and Salon. He attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has taught fiction writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Miami University, Grinnell College, and the University of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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Reviews for Sparrow
Rating: 3.7 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
30 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Jun 26, 2025
Amazingly written. I don't normally write reviews, but this book was hard to put down. Haven't read anything as good as it was in a long time, still searching! - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5
Oct 29, 2023
I don’t know if I would have liked the book more if it were a different narrator. He came across unemotional. But regardless, it was hard to listen too and I felt at times it was more like normalizing pedophilia than it was the humiliation of the boy. And the point of the story was? I wish I would’ve stopped listening to it hours before. I was hoping for a better ending but was left disappointed.4 people found this helpful