Emma Hooper has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 14 ratings. The most-rated is Our Homesick Songs.
Our Homesick Songs
Summary
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
From Emma Hooper, acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine “Pick of the Week”, comes a “haunting fable about the transformative power of hope” (Booklist, starred review) in a charming and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction.
Newfoundland, 1992. When all the fish vanish from the waters and the cod industry abruptly collapses, it's not long before the people begin to disappear from the town of Big Running as well. As residents are forced to leave the island in search of work, 10-year-old Finn Connor suddenly finds himself living in a ghost town. There's no school, no friends, and whole rows of houses stand abandoned. And then Finn's parents announce that they, too, must separate if their family is to survive.
But Finn still has his sister, Cora, with whom he counts the dwindling boats on the coast at night, and Mrs. Callaghan, who teaches him the strange and ancient melodies of their native Ireland. That is until his sister disappears, and Finn must find a way of calling home the family and the life he has lost.
©2018 Emma Hooper (P)2018 Penguin Random House Canada
Etta und Otto und Russell und James
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4 Reisende. 3 Richtungen. 1 Ziel. Großer Hörgenuss! Etta hat noch nie das Meer gesehen. Und so schnappt sich die 82-Jährige eines Morgens ihre besten Wanderschuhe und macht sich auf den 3.000 Kilometer langen Weg an die Küste. Ihr Mann Otto versteht Ettas Wunsch, und trotz aller Sorge lässt er sie ziehen. Ihr Nachbar Russell dagegen will sie unbedingt zurückholen. Zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben fügt er sich nicht und verlässt seine Farm. Je näher Etta dem Meer kommt, desto stärker erinnern sich die drei an ihre Jugend in einem kargen Kanada; an ihre ersten Begegnungen, Trennungen, Versäumnisse und Erfahrungen, die sie nicht miteinander geteilt haben...
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