Charlotte Collins - translator has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is The Tobacconist.
The End of Loneliness
Summary
The international best seller, translated by the award-winning translator of The Tobacconist, Charlotte Collins Winner of the 2016 European Union Prize for Literature Translated by the award-winning translator of The Tobacconist, Charlotte Collins. I've known Death a long time, but now Death knows me. When their idyllic childhood is shattered by the sudden death of their parents, siblings Marty, Liz and Jules are sent to a bleak state boarding school. Once there, the orphans' lives change tracks: Marty throws himself into academic life; Liz is drawn to dark forms of escapism; and Jules transforms from a vivacious child to a withdrawn teenager. The only one who can bring him out of his shell is his mysterious classmate Alva, who hides a dark past of her own, but despite their obvious love for one another, the two leave school on separate paths. Years later, just as it seems that they can make amends for time wasted, the past catches up with them, and fate - or chance - will once again alter the course of a life. Told through the fractured lives of the siblings, The End of Loneliness is a heartfelt, enriching novel about loss and loneliness, family and love.
©2016 Diogenes Verlag AG (P)2018 Hodder Headline Limited
The Tobacconist
Summary
From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story about one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna.
Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, and over time the two very different men form a singular friendship. When Franz falls desperately in love with the music hall dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admits that the female sex is as big a mystery to him as it is to Franz.
As political and social conditions in Austria dramatically worsen with the Nazis’ arrival in Vienna, Franz, Freud and Anezka are swept into the maelstrom of events. Each has a big decision to make: to stay or to flee?
©2016 Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins (P)2018 Anansi Audio