Length9h 26m
About this audiobook
THE YELLOW LANGUAGE
A linguist. A dying script. A company that would rather bury the truth than translate it.
When Orano — the French state uranium giant — offers Mara Szabo a fee too large to ask questions about, she tells herself it's just consulting work: identify an “informal” script phenomenon appearing on mining equipment in Arlit, Niger, and go home. But the marks aren't graffiti.
The people who built it will not let it be erased. Neither, once she understands what she's looking at, will Mara.
What follows is a run across two borders, a paper that goes public faster than anyone can contain it, and a reckoning with a company whose reach extends further than a checkpoint, a contract, or a closed file.
Arlit is a novel about the languages built to survive what official records are built to forget — about a woman who spent her life studying how knowledge survives, and finally has to decide what she's willing to risk to keep it surviving.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Other
Length9 hrs 26 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMay 15, 26
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ARLIT
2Foreword
3Prologue
4Part One: Arrival
5Chapter One: The Call
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6Chapter Two: Agadez
7Chapter Three: First Contact
8Chapter Four: The Work Begins
9Part Two: The Discovery
10Chapter Five: The First Field Trip
11Chapter Six: The Archive Search
12Chapter Seven: The Master Map
13Chapter Eight: The Confrontation
14Chapter Nine: The Final Week
15Part Three: The Exposure
16Chapter Ten: The Decision
17Chapter Eleven: The Paper
18Chapter Twelve: The Escape Begins
19Chapter Thirteen: The Border Chase
20Chapter Fourteen: The Paper Goes Public
21Chapter Fifteen: Le Pelican
22Chapter Sixteen: Liesbeth
23Chapter Seventeen: Takari
24Chapter Eighteen: The Burying
25Part Four: The Aftermath
26Chapter Nineteen: Amsterdam
27Chapter Twenty: Building the Archive
28Chapter Twenty-One: The Reverberations
29Chapter Twenty-Two: The Auckland Notebooks
30Chapter Twenty-Three: The Marks Endure
31Chapter Twenty-Four: Yasmine
32Chapter Twenty-Five: The Final Image
33A Note on Arlit
34Glossary
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