David Ebershoff has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.8★ across 11 ratings. The most-rated is The 19th Wife.
The 19th Wife
Summary
Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's
The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense.
It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family's polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife.
Soon after Ann Eliza's story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds - a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father's death.
As Ann Eliza's narrative intertwines with that of Jordan's search, listeners are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith.
©2008 David Ebershoff (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
The Danish Girl
Summary
Now an Academy Award-winning major motion picture, starring Academy Award-winners Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper National Best Seller A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction Winner of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award Finalist for the American Library Association Stonewall Book Award Loosely inspired by a true story, this tender portrait of marriage asks: What do you do when the person you love has to change? It starts with a question, a simple favor asked by a wife of her husband while both are painting in their studio, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, The Danish Girl eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. The Danish Girl’s lush prose and generous emotional insight make it, after the last line is heard, a deeply moving first novel about one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the 20th century.
©2001 David Ebershoff (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Den danske pige
Summary
I 1914 ankommer den unge amerikanske enke Gerda Waud til København for at gå på Kunstakademiet. Her forelsker hun sig i sin laerer, maleren Einar Wegener. De gifter sig nogle år senere og slår sig ned i Nyhavn, hvor de indretter bolig og atelier. Et harmonisk aegteskab og et spaendende professionelt parløb tager sin begyndelse. Da Einar i 1925 accepterer at sidde model for Gerda, så hun kan faerdiggøre et billede af en kvinde, skubber de i faellesskab døren op for en tredje person: Den unge pige Lili, der forsigtigt og en smule fortumlet traeder ind i deres aegteskab. Det står lysende klart for dem begge, at der inden i Einar findes en kvinde, som kaemper for at komme ud, og Gerda indser, at Einar må tage skridtet fuldt ud og blive kvinde også i fysisk forstand. I Tyskland finder hun en specialist, der vil påtage sig opgaven, og på Dresden Kvindeklinik indleder Einar en raekke smertefulde kønsskifteoperationer. David Ebershoffs roman "Den danske pige" tager afsaet i Gerda og Einar Wegeners historie.
©2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Kirsten A. Nielsen (P)2015 Lindhardt og Ringhof