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- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Fiona Button
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence.
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- De Turtle en 06-16-19
De: Isabella Hammad
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- De: V. E. Schwab
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever - and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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Prose style not to my liking
- De C.V. Cox en 10-18-20
De: V. E. Schwab
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Violet
- De: Scott Thomas
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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For many children, the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow, it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. Three decades later, loss returns - her husband killed in a car accident. And so, Kris goes home to the place where she first knew pain - to that summer house overlooking the crystal waters of Lost Lake. It’s there that Kris and her eight-year-old daughter will make a stand against grief. But a shadow has fallen over the quiet lake town of Pacington, Kansas. Beneath its surface, an evil has grown.
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An 8 hour build up that fails to deliver
- De Will en 10-09-19
De: Scott Thomas
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Creatures of Passage
- De: Morowa Yejidé
- Narrado por: Morowa Yejidé
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, 10-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the "River Man".
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This is the one
- De just_watching en 04-27-21
De: Morowa Yejidé
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The Creepypasta Collection
- Modern Urban Legends You Can’t Unread
- De: MrCreepyPasta - editor
- Narrado por: Heather Costa, Jeffrey Kafer
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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A terrifying, thrilling collection of must-listen horror stories chock-full of nightmarish supernatural beings and the murderously disturbed that are sure to keep you up all night long.
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creepy definitely
- De Danh en 01-16-22
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Amulet
- De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: Adriana Sananes
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
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A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolaño's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry", hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University.
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- De Alicia Grega en 12-05-13
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- De: Amos Oz
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.
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His life was interesting, but not his memoir
- De DR Harle en 01-27-19
De: Amos Oz
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Three Parts Dead
- De: Max Gladstone
- Narrado por: Claudia Alick
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- De John en 07-27-14
De: Max Gladstone
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The Man Who Lived Underground
- De: Richard Wright
- Narrado por: Ethan Herisse
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city’s sewer system. This is the devastating premise of this scorching novel, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Richard Wright. Written at the height of his creative powers, it would see publication in Wright's lifetime only in drastically condensed and truncated form, and ultimately be included in the posthumous short story collection Eight Men.
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If you enjoy the author Richard Wright...
- De Anonymous User en 05-25-21
De: Richard Wright
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The Folded Leaf
- De: William Maxwell
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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Here is a classic novel from one of our most honored writers - the author of such acclaimed works as So Long, See You Tomorrow and All the Days and Nights. The Folded Leaf is the serenely observed yet deeply moving story of two boys finding one another in the Midwest of the 1920s, when childhood lasted longer than it does today and even adults were more innocent of what life could bring.
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Midwestern Misfits
- De David en 03-17-15
De: William Maxwell
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Satantango
- De: László Krasznahorkai
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”
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Tone. Sound. Psychology. Humor.
- De Anonymous User en 12-19-23
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JR
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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Absurdly logical, mercilessly real, gathering it's own tumultuous momentum for the ultimate brush with commodity training, JR captures the listener in the cacophony of voices that revolves around this young captive of his own myths. The disturbing clarity with which this finished writer captures the ways in which we deal, dissemble, and stumble through our words - through our lives - while the real plans are being made elsewhere makes JR the extraordinary novel that it is.
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Possibly superior as an audio book
- De Peregrine en 12-12-10
De: William Gaddis
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The Dying Grass
- A Novel of the Nez Perce War
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 53 h y 59 m
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In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the US Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from Northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border.
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It is all the same. Let us kill, die or ride away
- De Darwin8u en 05-24-17
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2666
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, y otros
- Duración: 39 h y 15 m
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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Best Book I Read or Listened to in 2009
- De William en 01-05-10
De: Roberto Bolaño
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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Satantango
- De: László Krasznahorkai
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank with the stench of failed schemes, betrayals, failure, infidelity, sudden hopes, and aborted dreams. “Their world,” in the words of the translator George Szirtes is “rough and ready, lost somewhere between the cosmic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.”
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Tone. Sound. Psychology. Humor.
- De Anonymous User en 12-19-23
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JR
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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Absurdly logical, mercilessly real, gathering it's own tumultuous momentum for the ultimate brush with commodity training, JR captures the listener in the cacophony of voices that revolves around this young captive of his own myths. The disturbing clarity with which this finished writer captures the ways in which we deal, dissemble, and stumble through our words - through our lives - while the real plans are being made elsewhere makes JR the extraordinary novel that it is.
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Possibly superior as an audio book
- De Peregrine en 12-12-10
De: William Gaddis
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The Dying Grass
- A Novel of the Nez Perce War
- De: William T. Vollmann
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 53 h y 59 m
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In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the US Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from Northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian border.
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It is all the same. Let us kill, die or ride away
- De Darwin8u en 05-24-17
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2666
- De: Roberto Bolaño
- Narrado por: John Lee, Armando Durán, G. Valmont Thomas, y otros
- Duración: 39 h y 15 m
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Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño's life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of Santa Teresa - a fictional Juárez - on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The Best Book I Read or Listened to in 2009
- De William en 01-05-10
De: Roberto Bolaño
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The Recognitions
- De: William Gaddis
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 47 h y 55 m
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Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- De andrew en 11-17-10
De: William Gaddis
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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The Morning Star
- De: Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan, Edoardo Ballerini, Elisabeth Rodgers, y otros
- Duración: 23 h y 11 m
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It's a normal night in August. Literature professor Arne and artist Tove are with their children at the resort in Sørlandet. Their friend, Egil, a driver by day, is staying in a cabin nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is on her way home from a seminar; the journalist Jostein is out on the town; and his wife, Turid, who is an assistant nurse, has a night shift. Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears in the sky. No one, not even the astronomers, knows for sure what kind of phenomenon it is.
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Great read for religious scholars
- De matt m en 01-13-22
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The Maniac
- De: Benjamin Labatut
- Narrado por: Gergo Danka, Eva Magyar
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
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Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale.
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Gergo Danka and Eva Magyar are excellent narrators
- De Barbara S en 11-04-23
De: Benjamin Labatut
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Ruletistul
- De: Mircea Cartarescu
- Narrado por: Mircea Cartarescu
- Duración: 55 m
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Nu puteam crede ca poate fi adevarat ceea ce urma sa se produca. Pentru ca Ruletistul anuntase cu câteva saptamâni înainte ca la urmatoarea ruleta va încarca revolverul cu toate cele sase gloante! Între progresia de la un cartus la cinci, oricât de neverosimila ar fi fost si aceea, si nebunia de acum era prapastia de la o singura sansa la nici una. Stropul de omenesc pe care Ruletistul îl mai pastrase în tentativa sa se evapora acum sub milionul de sori al certitudinii. Verificarea cartuselor si a revolverului a durat ore în sir. Când s-au întors la el, Ruletistul, suit pe lada sa, le zornai o clipa în pumn ca pe niste zaruri si apoi le introduse, câte unul, în cele sase locasuri ale butoiasului.
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In Memory of Memory
- De: Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale - translator
- Narrado por: Inger Tudor
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century.
De: Maria Stepanova, y otros
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Trilogy
- De: Jon Fosse, May Brit-Akerholot - translator
- Narrado por: Kåre Conradi
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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This is Jon Fosse’s critically acclaimed, luminous love story about Asle and Alida, two lovers trying to find their place in this world. Homeless and sleepless, they wander around Bergen in the rain, trying to make a life for themselves and the child they expect. Through a rich web of historical, cultural, and theological allusions, Fosse constructs a modern parable of injustice, resistance, crime, and redemption.
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The Complete Stories
- De: Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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When We Cease to Understand the World
- De: Benjamin Labatut, Adrian West - translator
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger - these are some of the luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the listener, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence.
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the true heir w.g. sebald
- De Thomas en 12-23-21
De: Benjamin Labatut, y otros
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The Passion According to G.H.
- De: Clarice Lispector
- Narrado por: Sofia Willingham
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Lispector’s most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door - crushing the cockroach - and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature....
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So freaking good!
- De Gordy en 04-11-18
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Aliss at the Fire
- De: Jon Fosse, Damion Searls - translator
- Narrado por: Kåre Conradi
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss.
De: Jon Fosse, y otros
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Middle C
- De: William H. Gass
- Narrado por: Jeremy Arthur
- Duración: 16 h y 27 m
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Gass’ new novel moves from World War II Europe to a small town in postwar Ohio. In a series of variations, Gass gives us a mosaic of a life - futile, comic, anarchic - arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms and tones, and broken pieces with music as both theme and structure, set in the key of middle C. It begins in Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland....
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All the world was a stage. But not for all the wor
- De Darwin8u en 06-07-14
De: William H. Gass
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Augustus
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.
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The son of Caesar calls to you.
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-15
De: John Williams
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The Wolves of Eternity
- A Novel
- De: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Vas Eli, Gilli Messer, y otros
- Duración: 27 h y 42 m
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In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations.
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- De Gary en 01-22-24
De: Karl Ove Knausgaard, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Solenoid
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- 01-24-24
Best novel I’ve ever read.
This literally masterpiece is the first timeless classic the XXI century has given us. The audiobook version is flawless, great narrator.
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- 05-31-23
Moments of Brilliance
Dancing and lights. Beautiful and brilliant. Some of the brightest flashes of brilliance and introspection. A blending of dream, philosophy, existential and self awareness. Our beautiful irrelevance. How melancholic.
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- Isaac Linder
- 03-11-24
Our Universal Phantasmagoria
Quite simply the greatest reading (listening) experience of my life. Recommended for anyone who truly loves literature.
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- 04-01-23
Believe the hype
Whatever this is, it's the best to ever do it. Incredible novel, translation, and narration.
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- 03-12-24
Amazing!
I’m so happy that I happened on this book. If you like writers like Haruki Murakami you’ll love it. Beautifully woven fantasy and reality, coupled with philosophy. It’s like an amazing dream.
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- 03-29-23
Very well
As I always say, I’d prefer a copy of the text paper copy, but that being said, I am going to first discuss the text, regardless of its format and then secondly I will discuss the audiobook here present on audible.
Oh, I suppose the writing here in is so well done That I can see myself reading and rereading either parts or the whole thing over and over again for a couple of years and probably not completing it in the truest next generation gaming version of the word completion. This is an extremely stellar novel full of not only razor-sharp insights About life specially as an adult but also it is full of beautiful metaphors and well crafted sentences well chosen verbs, and a razor sharp attention to detail. Yes, there’s also only part of the author this poetic sensibility, much like TS Eliot, where in the unexplainable is attempted, where in the fourth dimension is attempted to be illustrated. There’s an element of an attempt to use this medium to transcend to another dimension through the use of the minds and the imagination. The imagery evoked is extremely impressive because the environment created is concrete and hardly will you come across except maybe in Dostoyevsky in ability to not only create, but sustain a singular mood. Nobody asked to tell me that if this punk wear a long long movie, it would no doubt be in black-and-white. I also want to mention that it is not common at all for a contemporary writer, to evoke Dickins, like a Roth author here does. In fact what we have here is at times Dickins squared Dickens meats, Borges meats, HP, Lovecraft, and I have to say I am very intrigued when I find an author that treats where is able to treat the medium differently than what is Carmen sort of like, how her author is able to go up higher and down lower and to take in greater, and to create larger you know I felt that way when I read the infinite just by David Foster Wallace, which, although I think ultimately doesn’t sustain itself or hold up well over it’s 1000 pages I do think that the author Had a mind that was greater and larger than most, if not all contemporary writers.
All I wanna say about the audiobook as object here is that I have no qualms with it whatsoever. The reader, the narrator, the reader narrator, seems to be in step with the narrator in the story seems to embody his voice very well hardly do you see that such a Such a I don’t know what word I’m looking for, but the narrators because now I guess we have two of them right technically three we have the author of the book. We have the narrator inside the book that the author creates, and then we have our narrator here, who is reading the book, but all of these narrators, and they don’t detract from each other at all, and I guess that’s the main point of not reading an audiobook would be to not detract From the texting to sort of like a Chamaeleon, be able to not be as noticed him as it were we don’t want to add our fingerprints to the scene of the crime so to speak. I can’t imagine there is a much better narrator than the fellow who reads this book for us. Also, there is probably another narrator to maybe but as you are probably already aware, the author is Romanian and this book was translated into English not too long ago so the translator is also probably a little bit of a narrator to. I like it when I know a book is translated because it helps me to Think about the text in a way as to search out its essence the part of it that if it got translated 1000 times wouldn’t change and what exactly that is, that’s why they say that art has a soul and especially a story has a soul in the philosophical sense that is the essence of it the unchangeable part of it all the other parts of it can be changed to replaced whatever But I’m glad I came across this book. I’m certainly gonna finish it and like I said, I’m gonna get a hard copy of it and I will probably be reading through it again. It is a book that is very much it feels like the crest of the literary wave that has been building for hundreds of years now Bon appétit and bon voyage.
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- David
- 05-28-23
Bravo!
Bravo to Deep Vellum for publishing the English translation and to Tantor for producing the audiobook. I hope their efforts bring this remarkable book to a wider audience. It is difficult to describe, since it is overflowing with ideas and fantastical episodes. Ostensibly, it is about an alter ego of the author, one who instead of becoming a famous poet and novelist is relegated to obscurity and lives out his days as a Romanian teacher at a school in Bucharest. But there are some very strange things going on in this version of Bucharest. You can see the influence of Bulgakov, Kafka, and Lovecraft, possibly even Lynch and Cronenberg, but the result is sui generis. It is a tantalizing mix of the quotidian and the phantasmagorical. As a listener, I swung from the moving recognition of a particular thought or experience to delightful bewilderment at the outrageous visions and preposterous incidents that make up this novel. It also raises challenging questions about literature and art and what in life is worthwhile. It is full to bursting to the point that an episode (spoiler alert) where the protagonist transfers his consciousness into that of a mite where he becomes a kind of Christ who brings them the truths of their god (the human on whose skin they live) and is martyred, is treated as almost a throw-away subplot when it would have been the entirety of any other book. It would have been impossible for so many disparate elements and ideas (picketers against disease and death, solenoids planted throughout the city that can cause levitation as well as other strange occurrences, the Voynich Manuscript, alternate selves, the life of dreams, the power and purpose of art, living under communist rule in Romania in the sixties and seventies, and much more) to come together into a truly cohesive whole, but the ending does tie enough together and provides a moving conclusion, that to my pleasant surprise I felt that Cărtărescu stuck the landing. If you are feeling adventurous, this novel is well worth your time.
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- Sorina
- 04-17-24
Excessive and unintelligent rambling
When self delusion rambles on and on and on for 34 hours. No way it was bearable to listen for that long. Still, I want my time back, in adition to my credit. It's clear the author craves to hear his own voice but where is the editor??
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