Regina Porter has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 8 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Travelers.
The Travelers
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"American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president.... The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible." (Entertainment Weekly) "An astoundingly audacious debut." (O: The Oprah Magazine) "A gorgeous generational saga." (New York Post) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Esquire Finalist for The Pen/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish-American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia’s mother - Agnes Miller Christie - is a beautiful African-American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx. Soon after, her husband, Eddie Christie, is called to duty on an air craft carrier in Vietnam, where Tom Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead becomes Eddie’s life anchor, as he grapples with mounting racial tensions on the ship and counts the days until he will see Agnes again. These unforgettable characters’ lives intersect with a cast of lovers and friends - the unapologetic black lesbian who finds her groove in 1970s Berlin; a moving man stranded in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during a Thanksgiving storm; two half-brothers who meet as adults in a crayon factory; and a Coney Island waitress whose Prince Charming is too good to be true. With piercing humor, exacting dialogue, and a beautiful sense of place, Regina Porter’s debut is both an intimate family portrait and a sweeping exploration of what it means to be American today. Praise for The Travelers “[A] kaleidoscopic début...Porter deftly skips back and forth through the decades, sometimes summarizing a life in a few paragraphs, sometimes spending pages on one conversation. As one character observes, ‘We move in circles in this life.’” (The New Yorker) "Porter's electric debut is a sprawling saga that follows two interconnected American families. . . . Readers will certainly be drawn in by Porter’s sharp writing and kept hooked by the black-and-white photographs interspersed throughout the book, which give faces to the evocative voices." (Booklist)
©2019 Regina Porter (P)2019 Random House Audio
Die Reisenden
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Anfang der sechziger Jahre weht Hoffnung durch das Land. Martin Luther King marschiert auf Washington, Amerika hat einen Traum. Der junge James will seine ärmliche irische Herkunft hinter sich lassen und träumt von einer strahlenden Zukunft als Anwalt. Nur wenig später wird die schöne Afroamerikanerin Agnes auf einer Landstraße von einem weißen Polizisten angehalten. Schreckliche Momente folgen. Agnes zweifelt, ob sie überhaupt eine Zukunft hat. James und Agnes ahnen nicht, auf welch unerwarteten Wegen die Geschichte der nächsten Jahrzehnte sie und ihre Familien zusammenführen wird. Von der Bürgerrechtsbewegung bis zur Obama-Ära spannt Regina Porter ein schillerndes Zeitpanorama, das von elf Interpretinnen und Interpreten eindrucksvoll vertont wird. Es lesen Richard Barenberg, Eva Gosciejewicz, Patrick Güldenberg, Lisa Hrdina, Reinhard Kuhnert, Inka Löwendorf, Ruth Reinecke, Benjamin Sadler, Abak Safaei-Rad, Falilou Seck und Vera Teltz. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.
©2019 / 2020 Regina M. Porter, Hogarth / Crown Publishing Group, Penguin Random House LLC, New York© S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main. Übersetzung von Tanja Handels (P)2020 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin