Paolo Giordano has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 6 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is En tiempos de contagio [How Contagion Works. Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises].

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En tiempos de contagio [How Contagion Works. Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises]

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Summary

Giordano nos obliga a coger aire ante la crisis del COVID-19 y reflexionar sobre nuestra responsabilidad colectiva, porque, «en tiempos de contagio, somos un solo organismo, una comunidad». Un nuevo virus irrumpe en un país lejano, aunque no tan lejano. La Tierra se ha vuelto pequeña. Día tras día, billones de impulsos digitales transportan la información a la velocidad de la luz de un punto a otro del planeta; infinidad de aviones surcan los cielos, borrando fronteras a su paso y trasladando sin pausa a millares de personas; y, a menor velocidad, miles de toneladas de mercancías se mueven en todas direcciones en un incesante intercambio mercantil que nutre la economía global. Y si los bienes materiales llegan hasta los lugares más recónditos con inusitada fluidez, con mayor celeridad aún se transmiten los elementos intangibles consustanciales al ser humano: la palabra, las ideas, los sentimientos, las emociones. Así pues, ante la amenaza de un virus letal de alcance universal, una miríada de opiniones, conjeturas y teorías de todo tipo -desde aquellas basadas en el rigor de la ciencia hasta las que brotan de la fértil imaginación de iluminados y charlatanes- nos envuelve como un sofocante alud que nos dificulta ver, pensar y decidir con sensatez. En este contexto tan especial, Paolo Giordano comparte con encomiable honestidad y valentía una serie de reflexiones y emociones que le provoca esta inaudita situación, poniendo de manifiesto otra vez una rara virtud para aunar dos mundos supuestamente irreconciliables: la contundente racionalidad del científico con la vulnerabilidad y las incertezas propias de un escritor sensible y comprometido. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2020 Giulio Einaudi editore (P)2020 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.

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Le corps humain

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Le peloton Charlie, envoyé en "mission de paix" en Afghanistan, rassemble des soldats de tous les horizons : Cederna, le fort en gueule, Ietri, son jeune "disciple", la blonde et courageuse Zampieri, Mitrano, le souffre-douleur, ou encore Torsu, à la santé fragile. Encadrés par un colonel vulgaire, un capitaine austère et l'adjudant René, ils vont être confrontés au danger, à l'hostilité, à la chaleur, à l'inconfort, à la rébellion du corps humain et au désœuvrement à l'intérieur d'une base avancée, bastion fantomatique au milieu du désert. Mais aussi à eux-mêmes : à leurs craintes, leurs démons, leur passé qui les rattrapent. Une épidémie de dysenterie les rapproche du lieutenant Egitto, médecin qui vient de rempiler afin de fuir une histoire de famille douloureuse. Enfin, une opération à l'extérieur de la base, qui se transforme en cauchemar, fait voler en éclats leurs certitudes. Plus qu'un roman de guerre, Le corps humain est un roman d'apprentissage où le conflit armé apparaît comme un rite d'initiation au monde adulte, et la famille comme un champ de bataille tout aussi redoutable.

©2013 Editions du Seuil (P)2014 Sixtrid SAS

Narrator: Guy Moign
Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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How Contagion Works

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The COVID-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time. Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: Why it matters How it impacts us How we must react By expanding his focus to include other forms of contagion - from the environmental crisis to fake news and xenophobia - Giordano shows us not just how we got here but also how we can work together to move forward. 

©2020 Paolo Giordano (P)2020 Penguin Audio

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In Zeiten der Ansteckung

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Die Corona-Epidemie wird uns und unser Leben verändern: Der promovierte Physiker und Bestsellerautor Paolo Giordano beschreibt das Dilemma der Corona-Epidemie in Italien, aber es ist sozusagen eine "preview of coming attractions" für uns, denn die statistischen Verbreitungskurven sprechen eine deutliche, unleugbare Sprache: Auch uns erwarten Quarantäne, ein neuer Alltag, in dem es darum geht, die Kettenreaktion zu durchbrechen, um die totale Sprengung des Gesundheitssystems zu verhindern. Die Normalität ist ausgesetzt, und wir wissen nicht, wie lange. Nutzen wir die Zeit der Quarantäne, um über unseren Lebensstil nachzudenken. Diese Epidemie wird uns und unser Leben verändern.

©2020 Audio-To-Go Publishing Ltd. (P)2020 Audio-To-Go Publishing Ltd.

Narrator: Johannes Steck
Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Heaven and Earth

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A powerful, epic novel of four friends as they grapple with desire, youth, death, and faith in a sweeping story by the international best-selling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers. “Perfect, moving, honest, brilliant, with characters who feel like old friends.” (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less)  "Heaven and Earth is a stunning achievement and confirms him as an electrifying presence in contemporary fiction.” (André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me)  Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat, centuries-old olive groves, and families who have lived there for generations. There Teresa spends long afternoons enveloped in a sun-struck stupor, reading her grandmother's paperbacks.  Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso, and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly unassailable bond.  But no bond is unbreakable and no summer truly endless, as Teresa soon discovers.  Because there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret. And when Bern - the enigmatic, restless gravitational center of the group - commits a brutal act of revenge, not even a final pilgrimage to the edge of the world will be enough to bring back those perfect, golden hours in the shadow of the olive trees.  An unforgettable story of enduring love, the bonds between men, and the all-too-human search for meaning, Heaven and Earth is Paolo Giordano at his best: an author capable of unveiling the depths of the human soul and who has now given us the old-fashioned pleasure of a big, sprawling novel in which to lose ourselves.

©2020 Paolo Giordano; Anne Milano Appel (translation) (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Narrator: Jane McDowell
Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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