The World Literature category has 530 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 7,472 ratings. The most-rated is Indian Horse.
Noopiming
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Award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns with a bold reimagination of the novel, one that combines narrative and poetic fragments through a careful and fierce reclamation of Anishinaabe aesthetics. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering a long-ago time of hopeless connection and now finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce us to the seven main characters: Akiwenzii, the old man who represents the narrator’s will; Ninaatig, the maple tree who represents their lungs; Mindimooyenh, the old woman who represents their conscience; Sabe, the giant who represents their marrow; Adik, the caribou who represents their nervous system; Asin, the human who represents their eyes and ears; and Lucy, the human who represents their brain. Each attempts to commune with the unnatural urban-settler world, a world of SpongeBob Band-Aids, Ziploc baggies, Fjällräven Kånken backpacks, and coffee mugs emblazoned with institutional logos. And each searches out the natural world, only to discover those pockets that still exist are owned, contained, counted, and consumed. Cut off from nature, the characters are cut off from their natural selves. Noopiming is Anishinaabemowin for “in the bush”, and the title is a response to English Canadian settler and author Susanna Moodie’s 1852 memoir Roughing It in the Bush. To read Simpson’s work is an act of decolonization, degentrification and willful resistance to the perpetuation and dissemination of centuries-old colonial myth-making. It is a lived experience. It is a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors and spirits, who are all busy with the daily labours of healing - healing not only themselves, but their individual pieces of the network, of the web that connects them all together. Enter and be changed.
©2020 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (P)2021 Anansi Audio
The Year 200
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“The best and most popular novelist of this genre that the Island has ever given.” —Yoss “Agustín de Rojas authored a trilogy that pushes the boundaries of our imaginations.” —SF Signal The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas’ The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power. Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos”. When the Empire returns and takes over the minds of unsuspecting citizens in a scenario that terrifyingly recalls Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the world’s fate falls into the hands of two brave women. Drawing as much from the realms of the adventure novel, spy thriller, and political satire as from hard science fiction, horror, and fantasy, The Year 200 has been proven prophetic in its consideration of cryogenic freezing, artificial intelligence, and state surveillance, while its advanced weapons and robot assassins exist in an all-too-imaginable future. Originally published in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the onset of Cuba's devastating Special Period, Agustín de Rojas’ magnum opus brings contemporary trajectories to their logical extremes and boldly asks, “What does ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ really mean?” Agustín de Rojas (1949-2011) is the patron saint of Cuban science fiction. A professor of the history of theater at the Escuela de Instructores de Arte in Villa Clara, he authored a canonical trilogy of novels consisting of Espiral (Spiral, 1982), for which he was awarded the David Prize; La leyenda del futuro (The Legend of the Future, 1985); and El año 200 (The Year 200, 1990), all of which are scheduled for publication in English translation by Restless Books. While he was heavily influenced by Ray Bradbury and translated Isaac Asimov into Spanish, de Rojas aligned himself mostly with the Soviet line of socialist realism defined by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and Ivan Antonovich Yefremov. After the fall of the Soviet Union, de Rojas stopped writing science fiction. He spent his final years persuaded - and persuading others - that Fidel Castro did not exist. Nick Caistor is a British journalist, non-fiction author, and translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature.
©1990, 2016 Agustín de Rojas; Translation copyright 2016 Nick Caistor and Hebe Powell (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
Le Bruissement des feuilles
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L'éblouissant retour de l'auteure de La Mémoire des embruns. Miki, dix-sept ans, vit coupée du monde depuis l'incendie qui a coûté la vie à ses parents. Sous le joug de son frère Kurt, un chrétien fondamentaliste, elle travaille comme serveuse dans leur restaurant et le soir, se rêve en héroïne de romans. Lors d'une escapade secrète en forêt, elle fait la rencontre de Leon, un garde forestier tout juste installé en Tasmanie. Les deux jeunes gens se donnent alors une mission extraordinaire : sauver les diables de Tasmanie de l'extinction. Au cœur de paysages somptueux, le combat inoubliable d'une jeune fille pour protéger la nature et se sauver elle-même. Karen Viggers revient avec un grand roman, véritable hommage aux beautés naturelles de l'Australie, et nous livre une formidable histoire d'amitié et de solidarité.
©2019 / 2019 Titre original : The Orchardist's Daughter by Karen Viggers / Éditions Les Escales, un département d'Édi8. Traduit par Aude Carlier (P)2019 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
The Man Who Never Stopped Sleeping
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From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed author called "one of the greatest writers of the age" (Guardian) comes this story of a Holocaust survivor, wounded in body and spirit, who takes his first steps toward creating a life for himself in the newly established state of Israel. Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe after the war ended - with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, by truck, by wagon, or on foot to Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of young boys being trained in both body and mind for their new lives in Palestine. The fog of sleep gradually lifts, and when he and his comrades arrive in Israel, they are assigned to a kibbutz, where they learn how to tend to land and how to speak their new language. But a part of Erwin desperately clings to the past - to memories of his parents and other relatives, to his mother tongue, to the Ukrainian city where he was born - and he knows that who he was is just as important as who he is now becoming. When wounded while on night patrol, Erwin must spend months recovering from multiple surgeries and trying to regain use of his legs. As he exercises his body, he exercises his mind as well, copying passages from the Bible in his newly acquired Hebrew and working up the courage to create his own texts in this language both old and new, hoping to succeed as a writer where his beloved father had failed. With the support of friends and of other survivors, and with the ever-present memory of his mother to spur him on, Erwin takes his first tentative steps with his crutches - and with his pen. Once again Aharon Appelfeld mines heart-wrenching personal experience to create masterful fiction with a universal resonance.
©2017 Aharon Appelfeld (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Elven Queen
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The battle for sovereignty over the realms reaches a devastating turning point as the international bestselling fantasy series continues. All that stands between the advancing army of trolls and the endangered fortress of Phylangan is a coalition force led by Alfadas, human hero and protector. He’s amassed his own legion of swordsmen, elves, and ragtag thieves to stave off the enemy. And the next move they make could be the most dangerous one of all. Those Alfadas has left behind are more vulnerable than ever - including his star-crossed elven love; their newborn child; and Queen Emerelle herself, who remains comatose and is powerless to safeguard her compromised kingdom. But as Alfadas risks all in the violent campaign of the realms, the fate of Phylangan trembles ever more as the enemy advances. However tenuous Alfadas’s victory is, what he fears most is what will be left of the homeland he abandoned…
©2014 by Bernhard Hennen. Translation © 2019 by Edwin Miles. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
L'Empreinte
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Etudiante en droit à Harvard, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich est une farouche opposante à la peine de mort. Jusqu'au jour où son chemin croise celui d'un tueur emprisonné en Louisiane, Rick Langley, dont la confession l'épouvante et ébranle toutes ses convictions. Pour elle, cela ne fait aucun doute : cet homme doit être exécuté. Bouleversée par cette réaction viscérale, Alexandria ne va pas tarder à prendre conscience de son origine en découvrant un lien entre son passé, un secret de famille et cette terrible affaire qui réveille en elle des sentiments enfouis. Elle n'aura alors cesse d'enquêter inlassablement sur les raisons profondes qui ont conduit Langley à commettre ce crime épouvantable. Dans la lignée de séries documentaires comme Making a Murderer, ce récit au croisement du thriller, de l'autobiographie et du journalisme d'investigation, montre clairement combien la loi est quelque chose d'éminemment subjectif, la vérité étant toujours plus complexe et dérangeante que ce que l'on imagine. Aussi troublant que déchirant.
©2017 / 2019 Titre original : "The Fact of a Body, a Murder and a Memoir". Éditeur original : Flatiron Books / Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / Sonatine Éditions pour la traduction française (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
Bestiary
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NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. “Gorgeous and gorgeously grotesque .... Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel is utterly alive.” (O: The Oprah Magazine) LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterward, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother’s letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a myth - and that she will have to bring her family’s secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the subversive storytelling of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one family’s history from Taiwan to America, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and girlhood. Praise for Bestiary “[A] vivid, fabulist debut...the prose is full of imagery. Chang’s wild story of a family’s tenuous grasp on belonging in the U.S. stands out with a deep commitment to exploring discomfort with the body and its transformations.” (Publishers Weekly)
©2020 K-Ming Chang (P)2020 Random House Audio
Norse Mythology
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Are you dying to find out more about the lives of Vikings? From Ragnarok to the Gods of Norse Mythology, this book tells you the stories of a fascinating, ancient people. Few civilizations lead such brutish, jealous, and war-like lives, as the Vikings. A culture based on conquering and strength, the Vikings had deep-seated beliefs in gods who were just as problematic as their people. These beliefs created a colorful and captivating society of born warriors. In Norse Mythology: To The Gates of Valhalla, I deconstruct a thriving nation of people and the beliefs, rituals, and myths that helped them become a formidable force in Europe after 800AD. Explore the open waters with me, and I’ll take you on a journey through the best Viking tales! In this book you’ll read about: Asgard and the gods that rule there The story of Loki and how he almost won How Mjollnir came about and what it did in the world Why Odin only had one eye, and what happened to the other one The adventures of Thor, and some of his greatest conquests The days of the week and how we owe them to the Norse gods These are stories of adventure, battle, and furious glory! Delve into the dark depths of Norse mythology and be swept away by the past, and its many lessons. If you love mythology and you enjoy history - this book will give you a much-needed break during your day. Dip into the lives of the great Vikings and their gods of old. This is the book that teaches you about Norse history and myths! Buy the book and start your quest!
©2019 Tribe Metrics,LLC (P)2019 Tribe Metrics,LLC
Everyman
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There is no more decorated American writer living today than Philip Roth, the New York Times best-selling author of American Pastoral, The Human Stain, and The Plot Against America. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Awards, two National Book Critics Circle Awards, two PEN/Faulkner Awards, and numerous other distinctions. The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm 34! Worry about oblivion when you're 75." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man. A masterful portrait of one man's inner struggles, Everyman is a brilliant showcase for one of the world's most distinguished novelists.
©2006 Philip Roth (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC.
L'Homme qui voulait vivre sa vie
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De New York aux splendides paysages du Montana, une histoire d'amour et d'émotion, et un héros extraordinairement attachant, prêt à payer le prix pour vivre sa vie. Qui n'a jamais rêvé de changer de vie ? De New York aux splendides paysages du Montana, une histoire d'amour et d'émotion, et un héros extraordinairement attachant, prêt à payer le prix pour vivre sa vie. Ben Bradford a réussi. La trentaine, avocat compétent, un beau poste dans l'un des plus grands cabinets de Wall Street, un salaire à l'avenant, une femme et deux fils tout droit sortis d'un catalogue Gap. Sauf que cette vie, Ben la déteste. Il a toujours rêvé d'être photographe. Quand il soupçonne que la froideur de son épouse est moins liée à la dépression postnatale qu'à une aventure extraconjugale, ses doutes reviennent en force, et avec eux la douloureuse impression de s'être fourvoyé. Ses soupçons confirmés, un coup de folie meurtrier fait basculer son existence, l'amenant à endosser une nouvelle identité.
©1997 / 1998 Titre original : The Big Picture. Publié par Little, Brown and Company, Londres / Douglas Kennedy Tous droits réservés / Belfond pour la traduction française. Traduit par Bernard Cohen (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
kaddish.com
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The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father. Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it’s his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for 11 months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses - imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his father’s soul safely to rest. Sharp, irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise ingeniously captures the tensions between tradition and modernity - a book to be devoured in a single sitting whose pleasures and provocations will be savored long after.
©2019 Nathan Englander (P)2019 Random House Audio
Rome's Sacred Flame
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Rome, AD 63. Vespasian has been ordered to a far-flung empire in Africa to free 200 Roman citizens who have been enslaved by a desert kingdom. But when Vespasian reaches the city, he discovers tensions spilling over into bloody chaos.... Battling thirst and exhaustion, Vespasian must help the Romans escape, their only route to survival a desperate race across a barren desert with a hoard of heavily armed rebels at their backs. Meanwhile, back in Rome, Rome's elite fear for their lives as Emperor Nero's extravagance goes unchecked. Can anyone stop the Emperor before Rome devours itself? And if Nero is to be toppled, who will be the one to put his head in the lion's mouth?
©2018 Robert Fabbri (P)2019 Isis Publishing Ltd
Day (Unabriged)
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First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life and death, the journalist recalls the effects of the historical tragedy of the Holocaust on himself and his family. Like the memoir Night and the novel Dawn, Wiesel again poses important questions involving the meaning of almost an entire annihilation of a race, loss of faith in the face of mass murder and torture, and the aftermath and effects of the Holocaust on individuals and the Jewish people.
©1990 Elie Wiesel; 1962, 2006 Elie Wiesel (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC.
Intermediate Chinese Short Stories: 10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Chinese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
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Improve your Chinese skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining Chinese short stories! The best part of learning a new language is experiencing the culture and diving into activities that will enrich your life and vocabulary. The best way to learn a new language is by listening, and in this Chinese book you will find yourself listening to get to the end of each captivating story that will engage your mind and help you improve your grasp of the Chinese language. In this book you will find: 10 challenging and captivating stories containing a wide variety of topics that you will find easy to relate to - all while learning about Chinese culture and folklore! The stories are broken down into manageable chapters, so you always make progress with each chapter. Pinyin, which enables you to better understand Chinese characters and learn how they are pronounced out loud. Carefully written stories for intermediate level speakers like you, using straightforward grammar and commonly used words so you can enjoy listening while challenging yourself with new grammatical structures that aren’t overwhelming. Plenty of natural dialogues in each story that you would actually use in an everyday conversation, which will drastically improve your speaking and comprehension ability at the same time! At the end of each chapter, there will be a comprehensive guide specially designed for beginners. It will take you through a summary of each story, followed by a vocabulary of some of the words from the story to make sure that you understand the story fully. Chapter by chapter, you will find yourself effortlessly listening to each story. Not struggling . You will get involved in the dialogue of the characters by learning how to express yourself in different contexts and more importantly by learning new Chinese words that will get you closer to your goal of becoming fully conversational. Please note: This audiobook is in Chinese. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2020 Lingo Mastery (P)2020 Lingo Mastery
Two Feathers: Native Warrior Series
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Bliss was only ten when her family’s home was burned to the ground, leaving her frightened and alone. She was taken in by the Choctaw and treated as one of their own, even though she failed at the simplest of tasks. Eight years later, when two white men came into the village to claim her as their relative offering herds of cattle and horses in trade, she did what she thought was best for her Choctaw family. Bliss left her village in hopes she would find herself a better fit in the white world. Before the day was out, she learned the men were not who they said and had no intention of treating her like family. In the end, she was faced with an unforeseeable choice and an unwinnable battle. Two Feathers was a young Native learning the ways of the Choctaw. However, he was not like the other men in his village who lived off of the land, farming and raising livestock. He enjoyed spilling the blood of the invaders and was absent, fighting, more than he was home. Still, he had fallen for the little white girl who couldn’t farm, couldn’t make baskets, and was generally a failure at native life. Returning from a battle, he discovered the white men had taken Bliss, the woman with whom he expected to share his life. Her unexpected departure changed everything. Gone were his desires to do anything other than locate the girl; she consumed his every thought and he vowed to bring her back. Learning that the men had nefarious intentions, only reinforced his resolve. Will he find her before she makes the dreadful decision she knows must be made? Will she be able to face her adopted, Native family after all that has happened? Will Two Feathers’ love be enough to vanquish the horrors she endured at the hands of her own people?
©2020 Elizabeth Anne Porter (P)2020 Elizabeth Anne Porter
Biloxi
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Mary Miller seizes the mantle of Southern literature with this wry tale of middle age and the unexpected turns a life can take. Like her predecessors Ann Beattie and Raymond Carver, Mary Miller brings an essential voice to her generation. Building on her critically acclaimed novel The Last Days of California and her biting collection Always Happy Hour, Miller slyly transports listeners to her unapologetic corner of the South - this time, Biloxi, Mississippi, home to 63-year-old Louis McDonald, Jr. His wife of 37 years left him, his father has passed - and he has impulsively retired from his job in anticipation of an inheritance check that may not come. In the meantime, he watches reality television, sips beer, and avoids his ex-wife and daughter. One day, he stops at a house advertising free dogs and meets overweight mixed-breed Layla. Unexpectedly, Louis takes her, and, newly invigorated, begins investigating local dog parks and buying extra bologna. Mining the absurdities of life with her signature "droll minimalist's-eye view of America" (Joyce Carol Oates), Biloxi affirms Miller's place in contemporary literature.
©2019 Mary Miller (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Portnoy et son complexe
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Entre les grands idéaux humanitaires qui l'animent et les obsessions inavouables qui le hantent, Alex Portnoy, trente-trois ans, est la proie d'un insoluble conflit. Élevé dans le quartier israélite de Newark, par des parents abusifs, démesurément attachés aux principes de la tradition juive-américaine, ligoté par des tabous et des interdits, submergé de conseils et d'exhortations, il est écrasé par une culpabilité d'autant plus angoissante que la sexualité et ses déviations les plus extrêmes ne cessent de l'obnubiler. Brillant étudiant, puis fonctionnaire en vue, il n'en reste pas moins un "bubala", un bébé, aux yeux de ses parents qui lui reprochent amèrement son indépendance, sa froideur apparente et surtout son refus de fonder un foyer et d'assurer la descendance. Ce livre audio, à la fois féroce et désopilant, où la tendresse alterne avec le cynisme, l'humour avec le pathétique, est une mordante satire de l'ignorance, du racisme, des préjugés et de l'intolérance sous toutes ses formes.
©1970 Editions Gallimard (P)2019 Editions Gallimard
La vita che volevo
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"Era questa la vita che volevi?" Alzi la mano chi può rispondere di sì. Chi non ha mai rimpianto un'occasione mancata o una decisione che non ha preso. E non ha mai fantasticato un'altra vita; la vita che, forse, voleva davvero? È quel che succede ai personaggi di questo audiolibro lieve e imprevedibile: Laura che credeva di aver fatto pace con gli uomini e non sa che la guerra è appena cominciata; Maddalena che ha sbagliato incrocio e ha perso la sua unica chance; Lorenzo che, grazie a uno sguardo, finalmente apre gli occhi; Patrizia e Carla, casalinga l'una, donna in carriera l'altra, che fanno i conti con la stessa "assenza di fondo", mentre i mariti giocano a un tavolo di poker il loro "ultimo giro". Uomini e donne che si guardano indietro, o allo specchio, e scoprono, con sorpresa, curiosità o spavento, che come dice Lorenzo: "lo di vite ne avrei potute fare almeno cinque o sei". Perché le vie del destino sono infinite, e se è vero che Dio ha inserito nelle nostre esistenze la variabile "caso" per movimentare un po' la situazione, è anche vero che a volte del caso nemmeno ci accorgiamo, perché fa capolino nelle cose più piccole: una sveglia che non suona, un numero di telefono sbagliato, un caffè preso in un bar diverso dal solito. Ma non c'è motivo di disperare: forse, sembra suggerire Licalzi con il tono scanzonato di sempre, tutte le vite che avremmo voluto le stiamo vivendo, proprio ora, in altri universi, in cui altri noi sono alle prese con altre storie.
©2011 Grandi & Associati Srl (P)2019 Audible Studios
Three Floors Up
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Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis. On the first floor, Arnon, a tormented retired officer who fought in the First Intifada, confesses to an army friend with a troubled military past how his obsession about his young daughter's safety led him to lose control and put his marriage in peril. Above Arnon lives Hani, known as "the widow", whose husband travels the world for his lucrative job while she stays at home with their two children, increasingly isolated and unstable. When her brother-in-law suddenly appears at their door begging her to hide him from loan sharks and the police, she agrees in spite of the risk to her family, if only to bring some emotional excitement into her life. On the top floor lives a former judge, Devora. Eager to start a new life in her retirement, Devora joins a social movement, desperately tries to reconnect with her estranged son, and falls in love with a man who isn't what he seems.
©2015 Eshkol Nevo; English translation copyright 2017 by Eshkol Nevo (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
A Planet for Rent
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The most successful and controversial Cuban science fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his best-selling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the 90s, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.
©2014 Jose Miguel Sanchez Gomez. Translation 2014 David Frye (P)2015 Audible, Inc.