Antonio Manzini has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators. The most-rated is Spring Cleaning.
Orfani bianchi
Summary
Mirta è una giovane donna moldava trapiantata a Roma in cerca di lavoro. Alle spalle si è lasciata un mondo di miseria e sofferenza, e soprattutto Ilie, il suo bambino, tutto quello che ha di bello e le dà sostegno in questa vita di nuovi sacrifici e umiliazioni. Per primo Nunzio, poi la signora Mazzanti, "che si era spenta una notte di dicembre, sotto Natale, ma la famiglia non aveva rinunciato all'albero, ai regali e al panettone", poi Olivia e adesso Eleonora. Tutte persone vinte dall'esistenza e dagli anni, spesso abbandonate dai loro stessi familiari. Ad accudirli c'è lei, Mirta, che non li conosce ma li accompagna alla morte condividendo con loro un'intimità fatta di cure e piccole attenzioni quotidiane. Ecco quello che siamo, sembra dirci Manzini in questo romanzo sorprendente e rivelatore con al centro un personaggio femminile di grande forza e bellezza, in lotta contro un destino spietato, il suo, che non le dà tregua, e quello delle persone che deve accudire, sole e votate alla fine. "Nella disperazione siamo uguali" dice Eleonora, ricca e con alle spalle una vita di bellezza, a Mirta, protesa con tutte le energie di cui dispone a costruirsi un futuro di serenità per sé e per il figlio, nell'ultimo, intenso e contraddittorio rapporto fra due donne che, sole e in fondo al barile, finiscono per somigliarsi. Dagli occhi e dalle parole di Mirta il ritratto di una società che sembra non conoscere più la tenerezza. Una storia contemporanea, commovente e vera, comune a tante famiglie italiane raccontata da Manzini con sapienza narrativa non senza una vena di grottesco e di ironia, quella che già conosciamo, e che riesce a strapparci, anche questa volta, il sorriso.
©2016 Chiarelettere (P)2018 Adriano Salani Editore
Piste noire
Summary
Séducteur, corrompu, sarcastique, Schiavone est aussi antipathique qu'attachant. Le genre de héros qu'on adore détester... Le commissaire Rocco Schiavone est romain jusqu'au bout des ongles : snob, macho et ronchon, il est doté d'un humour noir dévastateur. Muté à Champoluc dans le val d'Aoste, il vit son départ en province comme un exil. À son corps défendant, il doit quitter sa paire de Clarks adorée pour porter de répugnants après-ski et considère ses nouveaux collègues comme des ploucs. Peu après son arrivée, on trouve le cadavre d'un homme sur une piste de ski, écrasé sous une dameuse. Accident ou meurtre? Quand le médecin légiste découvre un foulard dans la gorge de la victime, le doute n'est plus permis. Schiavone se plonge alors dans une enquête rocambolesque, freiné par son ignorance, voire son mépris, de la région et de ses usages. Mais certains habitants de cette vallée hostile et glaciale trouvent grâce à ses yeux. Notamment une habitante : la somptueuse Luisa Pec.
©2013 / 2015 Titre original : "Pista Nera". Sellerio Editore, Palerme / Éditions Denoël pour la traduction française (P)2021 Audible Studios
Out of Season
Summary
A clever, engaging new novel from best-selling Italian author Antonio Manzini following the dashing Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone, who confronts his most riveting case ever. It’s the bitterly cold spring season in alpine Aosta, and a girl has been kidnapped. Chiara Berguet, daughter of the owners of a local construction firm, was targeted thanks to the sizable debt her parents owe. But like many a best-laid plan, a blown tire causes the crime to go haywire as the kidnappers’ van skids off the road and crashes into a pair of larch trees. Both the driver and his accomplice die on impact, leaving the girl in the back, gagged and bound and unable to break herself free. Meanwhile, Rocco Schiavone wakes to find himself in Anna’s apartment. She’s the best friend of his girlfriend, Nora, and memories of the night before, a heated evening with Anna, return to him. As he sneaks out, he sees the first few snowstorm clouds of the spring season move across the sky, an ominous reference that something is off. If trouble at home and a case of kidnapping weren’t enough, Rocco will eventually have to contend with Enzo Baiocchi. Rocco was the one who sent Enzo to prison and in the process killed Enzo’s brother. Having just escaped from prison, Enzo is heading north with a newly purchased revolver and, clearly, revenge on his mind. When an unfortunate incident of mistaken identity makes Enzo’s act of revenge even more fiendish, it also presents a gruesome scene for Rocco to discover on his return home.
©2018 Antonio Manzini (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Spring Cleaning
Summary
The fourth installment in the Rocco Schiavone mystery series from the international best-selling author Antonio Manzini picks up three days after his last novel, Out of Season, left off, as Rocco seeks revenge for a friend - and closure for himself. Rocco is still reeling from the death of his best friend’s girlfriend, who was murdered as she slept in his bed. There’s no doubt that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid the ultimate price. With the identity of the hit man still unknown, a cloud lingers over Rocco, dulling his judgment and leaving this antihero exposed to other threats. For Rocco has stepped on one too many people’s toes over the years, namely the Mafia that is still being rooted out in Aosta. To complicate matters, the kidnapped teenager that Rocco saved has not fully recovered. But all is not as it appears with that family. Her mother, father, and boyfriend are all running some sort of farce that Rocco can’t easily crack. And now, he must grapple between these two parallel investigations and find answers once and for all...before one too many skeletons come after him. With the same clever insights, vitality, and humor people have come to expect from Manzini, Spring Cleaning is another engaging mystery.
©2019 Antonio Manzini (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers