Nancy Huston has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Fault Lines.
Fault Lines
Summary
Sol is a gifted but also terrifying six year old; his mother believes he is destined for greatness. He has a birthmark, like his dad, his grandmother and great-grandmother. But when they all make an unexpected trip to Germany, terrible secrets emerge about their family's story during World War II. Perhaps birthmarks are not all that has been passed down through this family. With its domestic focus but epic scope, Fault Lines is a compelling, touching and often funny novel about four generations of children and their parents. From California to New York, from Haifa to Toronto and Munich, the secrets unwind back through time, the present haunted by the past, until the devastating truth is reached.
©2007 Nancy Huston (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Infrared
Summary
After a troubled childhood and two failed marriages, Rena Greenblatt has achieved success as a photographer. She specializes in infrared techniques that expose her pictures’ otherwise hidden landscapes and capture the raw essence of deeply private moments in the lives of her subjects. Away from her lover, and stuck in Florence, Italy, with her infuriating stepmother and her aging, unwell father, Rena confronts not only the masterpieces of the Renaissance but the banal inconveniences of a family holiday. At the same time, she finds herself travelling into dark and passionate memories that will lead to disturbing revelations. Infrared is both an explicitly bold story of how sexuality is influenced by childhood, family, and culture, and a portrait of a woman coming to terms with the end of her father’s life. With exceptional flair and intelligence, Huston fearlessly investigates the links between family intimacies and our collective lives, between destruction and creation. In the spirit of her bestselling novel Fault Lines, Infrared is a story about how childhood, family, and our culture all have a direct impact on our sexuality.
©2011 Nancy Huston (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
La virevolte
Summary
Un, deux, trois petits tours et puis s'en va: Lin a un mari, deux filles, des amitiés, des moments de rare bonheur. Inexorablement pourtant, une passion qui est aussi son métier - la danse - s'impose à elle. Jusqu'au jour où elle choisit... La virevolte, c'est cela : une impulsion irrésistible, un élan, un jaillissement qui, de l'accouchement à l'abandon et à l'envoi, restent à jamais un sursaut vers la vie. La danse, le mystérieux travail du temps, le vertige et le désarroi d'être mère, l'indicible solitude, la beauté et la vulnérabilité des corps, la puissance des cycles, l'énigmatique empreinte du destin familial : dans ce livre audio qui jamais ne juge, il y a une force de compréhension bouleversante.
©1994 Actes Sud (P)2021 Editions Gallimard