Sigrid Nunez has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The Friend.
The Friend
Summary
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction New York Times Best Seller One of The View's Summer Read 2019 Picks! "A beautiful book… a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love." (Wall Street Journal) "A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." (NPR) "Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” (The New York Times) A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
©2017 Sigrid Nunez (P)2017 Penguin Audio
What Are You Going Through
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"As good as The Friend, if not better." (The New York Times) "Impossible to put down...leavened with wit and tenderness." (People) "I was dazed by the novel’s grace." (The New Yorker) The New York Times best-selling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship. A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people, the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.
©2020 Sigrid Nunez (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Mitz
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In the summer of 1934, “a sickly, pathetic marmoset” called Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. He nursed her back to health and from then on was rarely seen without her on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their circle, developing special relationships with such associates as T. S. Eliot and Vita Sackville-West. She accompanied the Woolfs on their travels and even played an important role in helping them to escape a close call with Nazis in Germany. Using letters, diaries, and memoirs, Nunez reconstructs Mitz’s life against the background of Bloomsbury in its twilight years. Tender, affectionate, and humorous, Mitz provides an intimate portrait of a most uncommon household, a glimpse of what Virginia Woolf once described as “the private side of life—the play side,” represented by one’s pets.
©1998 Sigrid Nunez (P)2000 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Der Freund
Summary
Der SPIEGEL-Bestseller jetzt als Hörbuch. Eine Frau, die um ihren Freund trauert, ein riesiger Hund - und die berührende Geschichte ihres gemeinsamen Wegs zurück ins Leben. Als die Ich-Erzählerin, eine zurückgezogen in New York City lebende Schriftstellerin, ihren besten Freund verliert, bekommt sie überraschend dessen Hund vermacht. Apollo ist eine riesige Dogge, die achtzig Kilo wiegt. Ihr Apartment ist eigentlich viel zu klein für ihn, außerdem sind Hunde in ihrem Mietshaus gar nicht erlaubt. Aber irgendwie kann sie nicht Nein sagen und nimmt Apollo bei sich auf, der wie sie in tiefer Trauer ist. Stück für Stück finden die beiden gemeinsam zurück ins Leben. Ein Hörbuch über Liebe, Verlust und Freundschaft - und die tröstliche Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Hund.
©2020 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Berlin (P)2020 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co KG, Berlin