Details:
- author: James Hynes
- full title: Sparrow
- narrator: Theo Solomon
- genre: historical fiction
- topics: #romanempire, #slavery, #brothel, #abuse
- publisher: Dreamscape Media
- publish date: 08 Aug 2023
- timing: 17:48:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙💙
My Thoughts:
Sparrow is a story of an orphaned and nameless boy brought up in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the years of the Roman Empire. Others call him simply Pusus (boy), Little One, or Mouse. But he likes to call himself Sparrow. He doesn’t know where he comes from or who his parents are. Raised by wolves in an environment not suited for a small child. Wolves are prostitutes in a brothel named after muses. Their world is everything he knows. They are all he has, and he learns from them. Tender Euterpe and her lover, down-to-earth cook, ambitious Melpomene, their bodyguard, rough Audo: they are his family.
The novel carefully and thoroughly depicts the harsh life of Roman slaves. Written in a brutal and painfully honest narrative. Among others, it contains explicit descriptions of rape and child abuse. So this novel won’t be for every reader, I’m sure.
Still, Sparrow is a novel worth reading. This novel transports the reader to the brutal times of the Roman Empire. It is a novel about endurance, love, and pain. This is a slower-paced but precise character study of a child slave in the Roman Empire.
About the Author:
About the Narrator:
Theo Solomon has worked extensively on stage, screen, and in the voiceover world. He has a growing reputation as an audiobook narrator and is the recipient of an Earphones Award. His television work includes roles in the miniseries Temple and BBC’s Enterprice, and he has performed on stages across London and Nottingham.
