Chloe Benjamin has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.5★ across 141 ratings. The most-rated is The Immortalists.
The Immortalists
Summary
A Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Marie Claire, New York Public Library, LibraryReads, The Skimm, LitHub, Lit Reactor Instant New York Times best seller “A captivating family saga.” (The New York Times Book Review) “This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.” (People Magazine, Book of the Week) If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children - four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness - sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
©2017 Chloe Benjamin (P)2017 Penguin Audio
The Anatomy of Dreams
Summary
Discover the award-winning debut novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Immortalists, a "majestic collision of sci-fi thriller and love story" (Bustle) about a young woman struggling with questions of love, trust, and ethics as the line between dreams and reality dangerously blurs. When Sylvie Patterson, a bookish student at a Northern California boarding school, falls in love with a spirited, elusive classmate named Gabe, they embark on an experiment that changes their lives. Their headmaster, Dr. Adrian Keller, is a charismatic medical researcher who has staked his career on the therapeutic potential of lucid dreaming: by teaching his patients to become conscious during sleep, he believes he can relieve stress and trauma. Over the next six years, Sylvie and Gabe become consumed by Keller’s work, following him across the country. But when an opportunity brings the trio to the Midwest, Sylvie and Gabe stumble into a tangled relationship with their mysterious neighbors - and Sylvie begins to doubt the ethics of Keller’s research. As she navigates the hazy, permeable boundaries between what is real and what isn’t, who can be trusted and who cannot, Sylvie also faces surprising developments in herself - an unexpected infatuation, growing paranoia, and a new sense of rebellion. With stirring, elegant prose, "Chloe Benjamin has crafted an eerie, compelling first novel which, like the lingering effects of a vivid dream, resonates long past its finish" (Karen Brown, The Longings of Wayward Girls).
©2014 Chloe Benjamin (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Gli immortalisti
Summary
Forse non sarebbe successo niente se non fossero stati nel cuore dell'estate, con un mese e mezzo di noia umida alle spalle e un altro mese e mezzo davanti. In casa non c'è aria condizionata e quest'anno - l'estate del 1969 - sembra che stia succedendo qualcosa a tutti tranne che a loro, i fratelli Gold. Mentre gli altri si sballano a Woodstock, New York non offre loro altro che un incontro con una veggente che, si dice nel quartiere, sarebbe in grado di predire la data di morte. I quattro ragazzi ci vanno, per gioco, per vestirsi di paura, per fare la rivoluzione a modo loro. Bussano alla porta della donna, entrano uno per volta, ed escono con una data. Nient'altro. Simon, Klara, Daniel e Varya sono figli di una famiglia di commercianti ebrei, sono il frutto di una storia dolorosa e felice insieme, ramificata tra Europa e Stati Uniti, e probabilmente non sono diventati quello che i genitori avrebbero voluto. E dopo quel giorno d'estate della loro adolescenza, marchiato da quel numero indimenticabile, niente sarà più come prima. I sogni e i progetti saranno altri. Non peggiori, diversi.
©2018 Rizzoli (P)2019 Rizzoli