Walter Krochmal has narrated 5 audiobooks on Listento.it by 7 authors, with an average listener rating of 2★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Distant Star.
Distant Star
Summary
A chilling novel about the nightmare of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. The star of Roberto Bolano's hair-raising novel Distant Star is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an air force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise involving sky-writing, poetry, torture, and photo exhibitions. For our unnamed narrator, who first encounters this "star" in a college poetry workshop, Ruiz-Tagle becomes the silent hand behind every evil act in the darkness of Pinochet's regime. The narrator, unable to stop himself, tries to track Ruiz-Tagle down, and sees signs of his activity over and over again. A corrosive, mocking humor sparkles within Bolano's darkest visions of Chile under Pinochet. In Bolano's world there's a big graveyard and there's a big graveyard laugh. (He once described his novel By Night in Chile as "a tale of terror, a situation comedy, and a combination pastoral-gothic novel.") Many Chilean authors have written about the "bloody events of the early Pinochet years, the abductions and murders," Richard Eder commented in The New York Times: "None has done it in so dark and glittering a fashion as Roberto Bolano."
©1996 Roberto Bolano and Editorial Anagrama, Translation copyright 2004 by Chris Andrews (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
![Cover art for Por la vida de mi hermana [My Sister's Keeper]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51UtyaqIekL._SL500_.jpg)
Por la vida de mi hermana [My Sister's Keeper]
Summary
Anna ha nacido con un propósito muy específico. Nació porque un científico manipuló la conexión entre el óvulo de su madre y el esperma de su padre para crear una combinación específica de precioso material genético, con el propósito de salvar a su hermana que padece de leucemia mieloide. Anna es la tabla de salvación de su hermana Kate, pero no esta dispuesta a seguir donando sus órganos para salvar la vida de su hermana. Una serie de planteamientos éticos, familiares y morales que desgarran los cimientos de una familia por el bien de uno de ellos. Una historia muy humana, una familia devastada por la enfermedad de Kate y un juicio con un veredicto inesperado. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2004 Jodi Picoult (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC
The Return
Summary
A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolano called "the secret story," "the one we’ll never know." Bent on returning to haunt you, Bolano’s tales might concern the unexpected fate of a beautiful ex-girlfriend, or soccer, witchcraft, or a dream of meeting the poet Enrique Lihn: They always surprise. Consider the title story: A young partygoer collapses in a Parisian disco and dies on the dance floor. Just as his soul is departing his body, it realizes strange happenings are afoot around his now dead body - and what follows next defies the imagination (except Bolano’s own).
©1997, 2001 Roberto Bolano, Translation copyright 2010 by Chris Andrews (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America
Summary
Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino. Though their population and influence are steadily rising, stereotypes and misconceptions about Latinos remain, from the assumption that they refuse to learn English to questions of just how "American" they actually are. By presenting thirteen riveting oral histories of young, first-generation college students, Mario T. Garcia counters those long-held stereotypes and expands our understanding of what he terms "the Latino Generation." By allowing these young people to share their stories and struggles, Garcia reveals that these students and children of immigrants will be critical players in the next chapter of our nation's history. Collected over several years, the testimonies follow the history of the speakers in thought-provoking ways, reminding us that members of the Latino Generation are not merely a demographic group but rather real individuals, as American in their aspirations and loyalty as the members of any other ethnic group in the country.The complete list of narrators includes: Mariana Carreno, Tony Chiroldes, Monica Steuer, Adriana Sananes, Walter Krochmal, Rosie Berrido, Silvia Sierra, Luis Moreno, Martin Untrojb, Maria Cabezas, Lisa Ortiz, and Blanca Vasquez.
©2014 The University of North Carolina Press (P)2014 Audible Inc.
Terra Nostra
Summary
One of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction, Terra Nostra is concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations. Fuentes skillfully blends a wide range of literary forms, stories within stories, Mexican and Spanish myth, and famous literary characters in this novel that is both a historical epic and an apocalyptic vision of modern times. Terra Nostra is that most ambitious and rare of creations - a total work of art.
©1976 Translation copyright 1976 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc., Originally published in Spanish, copyright 1975 by Editorial Joaquin Mortiz, S.A., Mexico, Afterword 1983 by Milan Kundera (P)2014 Audible, Inc.