Steven Price has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 78 ratings. The most-rated is Lampedusa.
Lampedusa
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize From the number-one nationally best-selling author of By Gaslight, a novel of exquisite emotional force about love and art in the life of one of the great writers, reminiscent of Colm Tóibín's The Master, or Michael Cunningham's The Hours. In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of the late 1950s, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last prince of Lampedusa, struggles to complete the novel that will be his lasting legacy, The Leopard. With a firm devotion to the historical record, Lampedusa leaps effortlessly into the mind of the writer and inhabits the complicated heart of a man facing down the end of his life, struggling to make something of lasting worth, while there is still time. Achingly beautiful and elegantly conceived, Steven Price's new novel is an intensely moving story of one man's awakening to the possibilities of life, intimately woven against the transformative power of a great work of art.
©2019 Steven Price (P)2019 Penguin Random House Canada
By Gaslight
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Longlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize Number One National Best Seller Globe and Mail's "20 Books to Read in 2016", Maclean's best seller, Toronto Star best seller, Ottawa Citizen's "Best on the Shelf", Huffington Post's "Best Fall 2016 Books", Publishers Weekly "Books of the Week", National Post best seller, Vanity Fair 2016 "Must Read Books of the Fall" "A dark tale of love, betrayal and murder that reaches from the slums of Victorian London to the diamond mines in South Africa, to the American Civil War and back. Superb storytelling." (Kurt Palka, author of The Piano Maker) A magnificent literary historical-suspense novel in the tradition of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries, Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers, and Michael Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White, By Gaslight is destined to be one of the most acclaimed and talked-about books of the year. London, 1885. In a city of fog and darkness, the notorious thief Edward Shade exists only as a ghost, a fabled con, a thief of other men's futures - a man of smoke. William Pinkerton is already famous, the son of a brutal detective, when he descends into the underworld of Victorian London in pursuit of a new lead. His father died without ever tracing Shade; William, still reeling from his loss, is determined to drag the thief out of the shadows. Adam Foole is a gentleman without a past, haunted by a love affair 10 years gone. When he receives a letter from his lost beloved, he returns to London in search of her; what he learns of her fate, and its connection to the man known as Shade, will force him to confront a grief he thought long-buried. What follows is a fog-enshrouded hunt through sewers, opium dens, drawing rooms, and seance halls. Above all, it is the story of the most unlikely of bonds: between William Pinkerton, the greatest detective of his age, and Adam Foole, the one man who may hold the key to finding Edward Shade. Epic in scope, brilliantly conceived, and stunningly written, Steven Price's By Gaslight is a riveting, atmospheric portrait of two men on the brink. Moving from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, the novel is a journey into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us even against our darker selves.
©2016 Steven Price (P)2019 McClelland & Stewart
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La isla bajo el mar [The Island Beneath the Sea]
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La azarosa historia de una esclava en el Santo Domingo del siglo XVIII que logrará librarse de los estigmas que la sociedad le ha impuesto para conseguir la libertad. Para ser una esclava en el Saint-Domingue de finales del siglo XVIII, Zarité había tenido buena estrella: a los nueve años fue vendida a Toulouse Valmorain, un rico terrateniente, pero no conoció ni el agotamiento de las plantaciones de caña ni la asfixia y el sufrimiento de los trapiches, porque siempre fue una esclava doméstica. Su bondad natural, fortaleza de espíritu y honradez le permitieron compartir los secretos y la espiritualidad que ayudaban a sobrevivir a los suyos, los esclavos, y conocer las miserias de los amos, los blancos. Zarité se convirtió en el centro de un microcosmos que era un reflejo del mundo de la colonia: el amo Valmorain, su frágil esposa española y su sensible hijo Maurice, el sabio Parmentier, el militar Relais y la cortesana mulata Violette, Tante Rose, la curandera, Gambo, el apuesto esclavo rebelde... y otros personajes de una cruel conflagración que acabaría arrasando su tierra y lanzándolos lejos de ella. Al ser llevada por su amo a Nueva Orleans, Zarité inició una nueva etapa en la que alcanzaría su mayor aspiración: la libertad. Más allá del dolor y del amor, de la sumisión y la independencia, de sus deseos y los que le habían impuesto a lo largo de su vida, Zarité podía contemplarla con serenidad y concluir que había tenido buena estrella. «En mis cuarenta años, yo, Zarité Sedella, he tenido mejor suerte que otras esclavas. Voy a vivir largamente y mi vejez será contenta porque mi estrella -mi z'etoile- brilla también cuando la noche está nublada. Conozco el gusto de estar con el hombre escogido por mi corazón cuando sus manos grandes me despiertan la piel. He tenido cuatro hijos y un nieto, y los que están vivos son libres. Mi primer recuerdo de felicidad, cuando era una mocosa huesuda y desgreñada, es moverme al son de los tambores y ésa es también mi más reciente felicidad, porque anoche estuve en la plaza del Congo bailando y bailando, sin pensamientos en la cabeza, y hoy mi cuerpo está caliente y cansado.» (Reseña) «Un canto a la libertad.» (El Mundo) Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2009 Isabel Allende (P)2016 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U.
Der letzte Prinz
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Sizilien, 1955: Giuseppe Tomasi ist der Letzte im Geschlecht der Lampedusa. Melancholisch streift er durch das staubige Palermo, vorbei an den Palazzi seiner Vorfahren, von Café zu Café, und ignoriert seine prekäre finanzielle Situation. Als bei ihm ein Lungenemphysem diagnostiziert wird, reift in Tomasi ein Plan: Im Angesicht des eigenen Todes und des Todes einer ganzen Welt, beschließt er, etwas Bleibendes zu schaffen. Der 59-Jährige schreibt den weltberühmten Roman Der Leopard.
©2020 Diogenes Verlag AG. Übersetzung von Malte Krutzsch (P)2020 Diogenes Verlag AG
The Brain Reload
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Have you ever wondered what separates the most successful people from the rest of us? Is it superior genetics or better education? Not at all! The real reason some people are able to reach top level of performance is their reliance on brain performance. They have learned and integrated systematic thinking. They can leverage this way of thinking to produce better than average results. In The Brain Reload you’ll learn the core - and only the core - of what you need to know to use your brain to its fullest potential to get your mind under control, how to choose life, be more intelligent, and become the best version of yourself. That's right. Pretty soon, in fact, within two hours, you can learn how to address every aspect of your learning from memorizing, absorbing more information, focusing better, and knowing never-before-revealed secrets about how the brain programs the most important aspects of your life including sex, thinking, money, health, and even happiness. Turn your brain into a powerful dynamo by learning how geniuses think. Here is a small sample of what you will learn: Accelerate your learning abilities Improve your memory instantly Develop bulletproof focus and concentration Solve complex problems with ease Fly through study materials and ace tests Make money by accessing your strongest mental assets Adopt strategies that can help you become a more disciplined thinker by developing your analytical, reasoning, and reflective thinking skills Improve your sex life and health And much, much more! Click the "buy now" button, and start today.
©2019 Ben Nichols (P)2019 Steven Price
Tueurs de l'occulte
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Depuis la fin des années 1960, les crimes à caractère occulte connaissent une progression foudroyante. À tel point que des corps policiers ont mis sur pied des unités d’élite spécialisée; en effet, la vision intime du monde de ces meurtriers est souvent peuplée de démons, de vampires et de goules. Ici, nous ne parlons plus de meurtres ou de modus operandi, mais de rituels et de sacrifices. Mais qui sont ces «tueurs de l’occulte»? Par quelle «logique» tordue en viennent-ils à croire qu’ils sont les messagers de quelque divinité? Qu’ils doivent tuer au nom d’un gourou ou de Satan? C’est ce que l’auteur tente d’expliquer dans ces pages bouleversantes. En sa qualité de journaliste spécialisé dans le domaine, Christian Page a bénéficié d’un accès privilégié aux archives judiciaires. Il a donc parcouru le monde afin de documenter les meurtres les plus insolites, est retourné sur les scènes de crime et a rencontré une foule de témoins, policiers, avocats, procureurs et juges. Il présente ici 13 histoires parmi les plus étranges et dérangeantes et les reconstitue avec minutie en suivant, pas à pas, l’évolution perturbante de ces «tueurs de l’occulte»: leur passé trouble, leurs croyances déformées et leurs crimes monstrueux. Ce livre se lit comme 13 nouvelles policières, sauf qu’ici tout est vrai. Même les noms n’ont pas été changés.
©2019 Guy Saint-Jean Éditeur (P)2020 Vues et Voix