Olga Tokarczuk has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 146 ratings. The most-rated is Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." (Chicago Tribune) "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." (Annie Proulx) In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then, a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon, other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind.... A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
©2019 Olga Tokarczuk and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (P)2019 Penguin Audio
Murder at the Mousetrap
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Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this new series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. Alfie McAlister has retreated from London to the peace and quiet of the country to recover from a personal tragedy. But an accidental death - which may have been no accident - reveals that the heart of England is far from the tranquil backwater he imagined. After arriving in Bunburry, he is co-opted as an amateur detective by Liz and Marge, two elderly ladies who were best friends with Alfie's late Aunt Augusta. And it is not long before their investigations take an even more dramatic turn... In "Murder at the Mousetrap," the first Bunburry book, fudge-making and quaffing real ale in the local pub are matched by an undercurrent of passion, jealousy, hatred and murder - laced with a welcome dose of humour. Nathaniel Parker, born in 1962, graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and went on to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television career began in 1988 when he played Flying Officer 'Flash' Gordon in the LWT mini-series "Piece of Cake". He is also the lead in the BBC series "Inspector Lynley Mysteries", based on the novels by Elizabeth George. Nathaniel Parker has an extensive list of audio books to his credit, ranging from the classics of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy to more modern writings and children's books.
©2019 Lübbe Audio (P)2019 Lübbe Audio
Flights
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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." (Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time) "A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." (Washington Post) From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined characters and stories, interwoven with haunting, playful, and revelatory meditations, Flights explores what it means to be a traveler, a wanderer, a body in motion not only through space but through time. "Where are you from? Where are you coming in from? Where are you going?" we call to the traveler. Enchanting, unsettling, and wholly original, Flights is a master storyteller's answer.
©2018 Olga Tokarczuk; translation Jennifer Croft (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Rejsende
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"Rejsende" er en mosaik af fortællinger fra nær og fjern, nutid og fortid. En roman om at flytte sig og skifte opholdssted eller søge nye veje. Om at emigrere over de syv have, lægge sprog og religion bag sig eller bare forsvinde. En rejse rundt i verden og samtidig en rejse ind i kroppen. Romanens mange små historier griber på uforudsigelig vis ind i hinanden og lader hele tiden læseren møde nye, fascinerende sammenhænge - og en mangfoldighed af mennesker. Der er en gammel ortodoks kristen sekt, som mente, at mennesket burde være i konstant bevægelse for ikke at blive offer for synd og ondskab. Der er den berømte hollandske anatom, der lavede hele landskaber af de kropsdele, han skar ud og præparerede. Og der er hans datter, der nøje tegner dem af. Der er en kvinde, der flyver den lange vej tilbage til sit fædrene Polen for at yde en døende ekskæreste en sidste tjeneste. Og der er hende, som for at undslippe sin syge mand og sin dominerende svigermor frivilligt bliver hjemløs i Moskvas undergrundsbaner. Og så er der familien, der under en ferie bliver væk fra hinanden på en lille ø i Kroatien, hvorefter den virkelige rejse begynder. "Olga Tokarczuk", f. 1962, er en af Polens betydeligste forfattere i dag. Hun er den første polske forfatter, der har modtaget Man Booker International Prize.
©2020 Gyldendal (P)2020 Gyldendal
Letzte Geschichten
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Mutter, Tochter, Enkelin. Drei Frauen auf der Suche nach einem Ort - im Leben und im Sterben. Ida möchte noch einmal in ihr Elternhaus. Doch sie hat einen Unfall im Schneetreiben und findet Unterschlupf bei einem älteren Ehepaar. Dort erscheint ihr ihre Mutter Paraskewia. Nach langer Ehe ist Paraskewias Mann gestorben, in ihrem Haus oben auf dem Berg, das im Winter von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten ist. Und so schreibt sie die Nachricht von seinem Tod in den Schnee. Ihre Enkelin Maja erlebt das Sterben ganz anders. Im Urlaub auf einer Südseeinsel begegnet sie einem kranken Zauberkünstler, in dem sie ihren Vater zu erkennen glaubt.
©2020 Kampa (P)2020 DAV
Notes and Sketches of New South Wales During a Residence in That Colony from 1839 to 1844
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In the summer of 1839, 26-year-old Louisa Anne Meredith, in the company of her husband, Charles Meredith, sailed from England to the British colony of New South Wales, in what was then New Holland. Four years later, she published a detailed account of the years since she had left England. A fascinating window into the past, Louisa's impressions and experiences cover the four-month ocean voyage; life within the fledgling city of Sydney; travels across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst; and eventual settlement at Homebush in Sydney's west. Vivid observations of Sydney as it was in the 1840s combine with descriptions of flora, fauna, and the general way of life in the colony, all told through the eyes of a well-educated, articulate, and well-to-do woman who had come from a very different climate and upbringing to that she found in Australia. Louisa was a naturalist, author, and illustrator and her eye for detail provides a historically significant document giving a unique window into early Australian settlement. From descriptions of polite society, to hardships of drought and overland travel; from architecture to politics, convicts to aboriginal customs, Louisa's keen wit and clever insight provide a fascinating account of life in colonial Australia.
©2021 Louisa Anne Meredith (P)2021 Amy Soakes