Length7h 3m
About this audiobook
Quiet Is a Lie is a literary novel about memory, identity, power, belonging, and the systems that quietly shape how we understand the world. Moving from Zambia and Botswana to Britain and the United States, Musiata Richard Akafekwa follows family history, political violence, race, love, institutions, technology, and the strange distance between lived experience and official explanation. Darkly funny, intimate, and restless, the book asks a deceptively simple question: How do you know? As memory collides with public record and speculation, patterns emerge—and the reader is invited to decide which ones are real, which are inherited, and which may be shaping us before we even notice
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length7 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3A Note on the Form
4Prologue
5Chapter One — Fruit Trees
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6Chapter Two — First Blue Sky Part 1
7Chapter Two — First Blue Sky Part 2
8Chapter Three — Born Free Part 1
9Chapter Three — Born Free Part 2
10Chapter Four — Face Down Part 1
11Chapter Four — Face Down Part 2
12Chapter Four — Face Down Part 3
13Chapter Five — Coffee Part 1
14Chapter Five — Coffee Part 2
15Chapter Six — Daylight Part 1
16Chapter Six — Daylight Part 2
17Chapter Seven — The Unwatched Film Part 1
18Chapter Seven — The Unwatched Film Part 2
19Chapter Eight — Good People Part 1
20Chapter Eight — Good People Part 2
21Chapter Eight — Good People Part 3
22Chapter Nine — Open Hands Part 1
23Chapter Nine — Open Hands Part 2
24Chapter Nine — Open Hands Part 3
25Chapter Ten — Union Station Part 1
26Chapter Ten — Union Station Part 2
27Chapter Ten — Union Station Part 3
28Chapter Eleven — Frontline Part 1
29Chapter Eleven — Frontline Part 2
30Chapter Twelve — The Trail
31Chapter Thirteen — Red Dust
32Chapter Fourteen — Mirror
33Chapter Fifteen — Calibration
34Chapter Sixteen — Quiet Is a Lie Part 1
35Chapter Sixteen — Quiet Is a Lie Part 2
36Chapter Seventeen — The Quiet Part Part 1
37Chapter Seventeen — The Quiet Part Part 2
38Chapter Eighteen — The Upgrade Part 1
39Chapter Eighteen — The Upgrade Part 2
40Chapter Nineteen — Another Cave Part 1
41Chapter Nineteen — Another Cave Part 2
42Chapter Twenty — Who Needs the King? Part 1
43Chapter Twenty — Who Needs the King? Part 2
44Chapter Twenty-One — The Gate Part 1
45Chapter Twenty-One — The Gate Part 2
46Chapter Twenty-One — The Gate Part 3
47Chapter Twenty-Two — Distance Part 1
48Chapter Twenty-Two — Distance Part 2
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