Simon Van Booy has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 18 narrators. The most-rated is WordTheatre: Families & Other Natural Disasters, Volume 1.
Die Illusion des Getrenntseins
Summary
Eine kleine Bäckerei in Paris, mitten in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Ein Soldat, dem in einem Akt der Güte das Leben geschenkt wird. Eine mutige junge Frau, die offene Arme hat für ein Neugeborenes ohne Namen. Und ein Autor, der die Geschichte dieser Menschen in einer wunderbar zarten, eleganten Prosa erzählt - und dabei die unglaubliche Wucht menschlichen Schicksals entfaltet. Inspiriert von einer wahren Begebenheit erzählt Simon Van Booy davon, wie untrennbar unsere Leben miteinander verbunden sind. Davon, dass die Welt nur scheinbar ein fremder Ort ist und die Menschen darin uns näher sind, als wir ahnen. Lisa Hagmeister, Schauspielerin am Thalia Theater Hamburg, übernimmt den Part von Amelia, der blinden Enkelin von John. Schauspieler und Hörbuchsprecher Markus Boysen spricht Martin, der versucht, seine Herkunft zu begreifen und den Mann zu finden, der ihn gerettet hat. Jörg Pohl, Schauspieler am Thalia Theater Hamburg, ist John, der Pilot, der über Frankreich abgeschossen wird und auf wundersame Weise überlebt. Sebastian Rudolph, von theater heute zum Schauspieler des Jahres 2012 gewählt, spricht Danny, den Nachbarsjungen, der sich in Manchester mit Mr. Hugo anfreundet. Schauspieler und Regisseur Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger leiht dem mysteriösen Mr. Hugo seine Stimme. Thalia Theater-Ensemblemitglied Sebastian Zimmler ist der französische Junge Sébastien, der in der Nähe von Johns Absturzstelle wohnt.
©2014 Insel Verlag, Berlin. Übersetzung: Claudia Feldmann (P)2014 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg
Father's Day
Summary
The moving story of an orphaned girl named Harvey and the troubled uncle who raises her - an unforgettable tale of loss and redemption from the author of The Illusion of Separateness. At the age of six, a little girl named Harvey learns that her parents have died in a car accident. As she struggles to understand, a kindly social worker named Wanda introduces her to her only living relative: her uncle Jason, a disabled felon with a violent past and a criminal record. Despite his limitations - and his resistance - Wanda follows a hunch and cajoles Jason into becoming her legal guardian, convinced that each may be the other's last chance. Moving between past and present, Father's Day weaves together the story of Harvey's childhood and her life as a young woman in Paris, as she awaits her uncle's arrival for a Father's Day visit. To mark the occasion, Harvey has planned a series of gifts for Jason - all leading to a revelation she believes will only deepen their bond. With extraordinary empathy and emotional impact, the award-winning writer Simon Van Booy has crafted a simple yet luminous novel of loss and transcendence, second chances and forgiveness: a breakthrough work from one of our most gifted chroniclers of the human heart.
©2016 Simon Van Booy (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers
Gertie Milk and the Keeper of Lost Things
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Award-winning author Simon Van Booy introduces listeners to a magical, whimsical world, perfect for fans of Circus Mirandus and Serafina and the Black Cloak. When 12-year-old Gertie Milk washes up on the island of Skuldark, she finds that all of her memories are gone. Home to helpful Slug Lamps, delicious moonberries, and a ferocious Guard Worm, the island is full of oddities, including a cozy cottage containing artifacts from every corner of history. It is there that Gertie discovers she has been chosen as the next Keeper of Lost Things, tasked with the mission of returning objects to history's most important figures right when they need them most. With the help of a time machine disguised as a vintage sports car and the guidance of her fellow Keeper, Kolt, Gertie dodges an elephant army in ancient Alexandria, crashes a 1920s flapper party, and battles a ruthless Zhou Dynasty king. But soon, Gertie encounters an enemy that threatens everything the Keepers stand for: The Losers, villains who don't want to keep order, but destroy it. Now, Gertie must uncover the truth of her own past if she wants to stop the Losers and set history back in place.
©2017 Simon Van Booy (P)2017 Listening Library
Everything Beautiful Began After
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Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens—trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy League colleges. He has no close relationships with anyone and spends his days hunched over books or wandering the city in a drunken stupor. Henry is in Athens to dig. An accomplished young archaeologist, he devotedly uncovers the city’s past as a way to escape his own, which holds a secret that not even his doting parents can talk about. And then, with a series of chance meetings, Rebecca, George, and Henry are suddenly in flight, their lives brighter and clearer than ever, as they fall headlong into a summer that will forever define them in the decades to come.
©2011 Simon Van Booy (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers
The Sadness of Beautiful Things
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An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy. Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes listeners into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these tales reveal not only the precarious balance maintained between grief and happiness in our lives but also how the echoes of personal tragedy can shape us for the better. “Van Booy’s stories are somehow like paintings the characters walk out of, and keep walking.” (Los Angeles Times) "Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart." (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) Audiobook Table of Contents: "A Sacrifice", read by Alana Kerr Collins "The Green Blanket", read by James Fouhey "Playing with Dolls", read by Simon van Booy "The Pigeon", read by Giordan Diaz "The Hitchhiker", read by Alana Kerr Collins "Not Dying", read by Darren Burrows "The Saddest Case of True Love", read by Simon van Booy "The Doorman", read by James Fouhey
©2018 Simon Van Booy (P)2018 Penguin Audio
WordTheatre: Families & Other Natural Disasters, Volume 1
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WordTheatre, the short story performance specialists, casts the perfect actors to bring great contemporary writing to life. Recorded live with many of the authors present, these nine exquisitely crafted stories explore the one topic that everyone knows something about: families. Whether through birth, adoption, or marriage, whatever the relationships, they provide rich fodder for our talented authors - at times amusing, at others, achingly painful. Halley Feiffer reading “Ask for Pain” by Julie Orringer James Franco reading “The Odds It Would Be You” by Alice Mattison Gary Dourdan reading “Bug Juice” by Christine R. Lincoln Danielle Panabaker reading “The Escape” by Joyce Carol Oates Ian Hart reading “Distant Ships” by Simon Van Booy Robin de Jesus reading “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue” by Manuel Munoz CCH Pounder reading “Pet” by Deb Olin Unferth Vincent Piazza reading “Three Thursdays in the Bronx” by David Prete Nicki Micheaux reading “Vacuum” by Brad Watson Produced and directed by Cedering Fox; edited by Sara Bencivenga; mixed and mastered by Theo Mondle; music composed by Greg Chun. WordTheatre gives voice to great writing. We are an innovative, internationally recognized, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring empathy, curiosity and conversation through powerful and entertaining performances, both live and recorded, of the world’s best contemporary literature. We aim to ignite a passion for reading, writing and self-expression in our community and in future generations.
©2014 Cedering Fox (P)2014 WordTheatre