Robert Wu has narrated 6 audiobooks on Listento.it by 8 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 7 ratings. The most-rated is Life.
Life
Summary
An essential masterwork from Chinese literary giant Lu Yao - winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize - available for the first time in English. Lu Yao published only two novels before his untimely death - but their extraordinary influence catapulted the author to the top tier of Chinese contemporary fiction, establishing him as one of the most widely read and respected figures in Chinese literature. In this first-ever translation of Lu Yao’s Life, we meet Gao Jialin, a stubborn, idealistic, and ambitious young man from a small country village whose life is upended when corrupt local politics cost him his beloved job as a schoolteacher, prompting him to reject rural life and try to make it in the big city. Against the vivid, gritty backdrop of 1980s China, Lu Yao traces the proud and passionate Gao Jialin’s difficult path to professional, romantic, and personal fulfillment - or at least hard-won acceptance. With the emotional acuity and narrative mastery that secured his reputation as one of China’s great novelists, Lu Yao paints a vivid, emotional, and unsparing portrait of contemporary Chinese life, seen through the eyes of a working-class man who refuses to be broken.
©1982 Lu Yao (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Translation © 2019 by Chloe Estep.
Monkey King
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A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels - which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people" - now in a thrilling new translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only 500 years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his 14-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire. Joined by two other fallen immortals - Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster - Monkey King undergoes 81 trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam. Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.
©2021 Julia Lovell, translation (P)2021 Penguin Audio
The Trail of the Red Diamonds
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An obscure original manuscript of Marco Polo’s travels ... A tantalizing clue to the site of Kublai Khan’s fabled burial site ... A chance to unearth the truth behind a long-lost treasure. It’s an opportunity that would make Indiana Jones drop everything but his whip and race off to China. But he’d be too late. Lieutenant Jonathan Daly is way ahead of him. Two bullet holes and a bad case of malaria may not be enough to stop Daly, but a crew of criminals, a brood of British agents, and the entire Chinese army are all in the game ... and determined to keep him out of it. The stakes are too high, and the potential rewards too great, though, to let a little treachery, betrayal and human sacrifice stand in Daly’s way. He’s hot on The Trail of the Red Diamonds—a cache of exceedingly rare gems that were meant to light the way to heaven as an offering to the gods. And only God knows if Daly will manage to dig up the diamonds ... or end up buried with them. Also includes the rousing adventure “Hurricane's Roar,” the story of an American pilot in Mongolia who whips up a storm of death-defying air battles ... in the search for peace. Catch the whispers of conspiracy and shouts of warning and danger as the audio version of The Trail of the Red Diamonds delivers a gem of an adventure.
©2011 Galaxy Press (P)2011 Galaxy Press
Air Adventures Audio Collection, Volume 2
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Triumphant tales of heroes, honor and impossible odds. Launch into the action with these gripping and gritty tales that appeared in the pages of the most popular pulp fiction magazines. Featuring award-winning Hollywood actors and unprecedented cinematic sound. Each audiobook provides the listener with a true "theater of the mind" experience. The Air Adventures Audio Collection, Volume 2 includes 7 stories: The Falcon Killer, Red Death Over China, The Battling Pilot, Trouble on His Wings, Sky Birds Dare!, The Crate Killer, and Wings Over Ethiopia. Please Note: ‘The Crate Killer’ and ‘Wings Over Ethiopia’ are stories in Red Death Over China.
©1998, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2012 Galaxy Press (P)2011, 2011, 2012, 2012, 2012 Galaxy Press
Loot of the Shanung
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Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That’s more than enough to turn Shanghai newspaperman Jimmy Vance’s head. Throw in the gorgeous dame who’s offering the reward - Rockham’s daughter Virginia - and he might lose his head altogether. Fast-talking Vance jumps at the chance...the money...and the girl. But as Jimmy quickly discovers, there are several billion reasons to watch his back. Because that’s how much Rockham is worth, and there are some very hard cases out there willing to kill to separate the old man from his money. Next thing Jimmy knows, Virginia’s tied to a chair, and he’s got a couple of guns pointed at his head. But it’ll take more than a little rope and a couple of firearms to keep this reporter down. The truth is tied to the mysterious fate of a steamship named Shanung - and what Jimmy finds could be the biggest story of his life...if he lives to tell it. A missing billionaire. A beautiful woman. A hot story. Hear all about it - as the audio version of Loot of the Shanung puts a newspaperman up against a brutal deadline.
©2014 Galaxy Audio (P)2014 Galaxy Audio
Adventures in Romance Collection: Great Love Stories Are Never Shady
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Take an adventure while listening to these historical romance titles: Yukon Madness, Cargo of Coffins, Under the Black Ensign, Black Towers to Danger, and Loot of the Shanung. Black Towers to Danger: Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it's about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy's more than a match for everything Venezuela can throw at him. Everything, that is, except for Marcia Stewart. She's convinced Murphy killed her father, and she wants revenge. Murphy's drilling down for the truth, and it's his land, his love for Marcia and his life that are on the line. It's a gusher! The oil flows, the bullets fly, and the action comes fast and furious as the audio version takes you to the heights of adventure. Yukon Madness: There are all kinds of crazy, but there's only one Yukon Madness. And Royal Mountie Tommy McKenna has seen the terror that follows in its wake . . . his partner murdered and fed to a pack of wolves. Bent on revenge, McKenna sets out to find the madman who did it, and there's only one way to get him through his girlfriend. But whose side is she on? The trap has been set. The question is, who is the predator and who is the prey? Listen to the howling of wolves and feel the icy chill of fear as the audio version answers the real call of the wild. Cargo of Coffins: Lars Marlin has escaped from Devil s Island and come face to face with the man who put him there Paco Corvino. Now the two are off to sea serving on a luxury yacht, and not since Fletcher Christian and Captain Bligh set sail on the Bounty have two more heated enemies been in the same boat. Lars is determined to find out what Corvino has up his sleeve . . . and what killer cargo he's hiding on board. But the yacht owner s daughter is a beautiful and dangerous distraction. Will Lars be safe in her arms . . . or is she part of Corvino s plot a trap set with honey? Don t miss the boat as the audio version brings to vivid life this scintillating story of suspense at sea. Under the Black Ensign: Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. He's served under the threat of the cruel captain s lash. He s been accused of murder. And he's been left to die on a deserted island. But his luck is about to change. Together with a fiery woman and a crafty crew, he raises a pirate flag of his own, setting out to make love and war on the open seas. Experience the crack of a whip, the clash of swords, and the roar of the ocean as the audio version delivers high adventure on the high seas. Loot of the Shanung: A one hundred grand reward for the return of billionaire George Rockham is more than enough to turn Shanghai newspaperman Jimmy Vance s head. Throw in the gorgeous dame who's offering the reward Rockham's daughter Virginia and he might lose his head altogether. As fast-talking as Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story, Vance jumps at the chance to get what could be the biggest story of his life . . . if he lives to tell it. A missing billionaire. A beautiful woman. A hot story. Hear all about it as the audio version puts a newspaperman up against a brutal deadline.
©2014 Galaxy Press (P)2014 Galaxy Audio