Ghostroots
Stories
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
$0.99/mes por los primeros 3 meses
Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
Ghostroots
Compra ahora por $19.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Délé Ogundiran
-
Ore Apampa-Araba
-
De:
-
Pemi Aguda
Acerca de esta escucha
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties.
In this beguiling collection of 12 imaginative stories set in Lagos, Nigeria, ’Pemi Aguda dramatizes the tension between our yearning to be individuals and the ways we are haunted by what came before.
In “Manifest”, a woman sees the ghost of her abusive mother in her daughter’s face. Shortly after, the daughter is overtaken by wicked and destructive impulses. In “Breastmilk”, a wife forgives her husband for his infidelity. Months later, when she is unable to produce milk for her newborn, she blames herself for failing to uphold her mother’s feminist values and doubts her fitness for motherhood. In “Things Boys Do”, a trio of fathers finds something unnatural and unnerving about their infant sons. As their lives rapidly fall to pieces, they begin to fear that their sons are the cause of their troubles. And in “24, Alhaji Williams Street”, a teenage boy lives in the shadow of a mysterious disease that’s killing the boys on his street.
These and other stories in Ghostroots map emotional and physical worlds that lay bare the forces of family, myth, tradition, gender, and modernity in Nigerian society. Powered by a deep empathy and glinting with humor, they announce a major new literary talent.
©2024 'Pemi Aguda (P)2024 Audible Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
-
The Coin
- A Novel
- De: Yasmin Zaher
- Narrado por: Sarah Agha
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General3 out of 5 stars 29
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
-
Historia3 out of 5 stars 26
The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- De amybarnard en 08-03-24
De: Yasmin Zaher
-
Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
-
The Safekeep
- De: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 332
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 304
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Beautiful. Unexpected.
- De cm en 01-15-25
-
You Dreamed of Empires
- A Novel
- De: Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer - translator
- Narrado por: Gabriel Porras
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 185
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 175
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 175
One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Confusing and Difficult to Understand
- De francine steelman en 03-02-24
De: Álvaro Enrigue, y otros
-
The Book of Night Women
- De: Marlon James
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,195
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,761
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,760
The story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the 18th century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they - and she - will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
"A lyrical, heart thumping, engaging masterpiece"
- De ann en 01-07-11
De: Marlon James
-
My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
-
The Coin
- A Novel
- De: Yasmin Zaher
- Narrado por: Sarah Agha
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General3 out of 5 stars 29
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
-
Historia3 out of 5 stars 26
The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- De amybarnard en 08-03-24
De: Yasmin Zaher
-
Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
-
The Safekeep
- De: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 332
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 304
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Beautiful. Unexpected.
- De cm en 01-15-25
-
You Dreamed of Empires
- A Novel
- De: Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer - translator
- Narrado por: Gabriel Porras
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 185
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 175
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 175
One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Confusing and Difficult to Understand
- De francine steelman en 03-02-24
De: Álvaro Enrigue, y otros
-
The Book of Night Women
- De: Marlon James
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,195
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,761
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,760
The story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the 18th century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they - and she - will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
"A lyrical, heart thumping, engaging masterpiece"
- De ann en 01-07-11
De: Marlon James
-
Headshot
- A Novel
- De: Rita Bullwinkel
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 64
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 61
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful Narrator
- De love it en 08-09-24
De: Rita Bullwinkel
-
Women's Hotel
- A Novel
- De: Daniel M. Lavery
- Narrado por: Mara Wilson
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
-
General3 out of 5 stars 31
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 27
-
Historia3 out of 5 stars 27
The Beidermeier might be several rungs lower on the ladder than the real-life Barbizon, but its residents manage to occupy one another nonetheless. There’s Katherine, the first-floor manager, lightly cynical and more than lightly suggestible. There’s Lucianne, a workshy party girl caught between the love of comfort and an instinctive bridling at convention, Kitty the sponger, Ruth the failed hairdresser, and Pauline the typesetter. And there’s Stephen, the daytime elevator operator and part-time Cooper Union student.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
a great story!
- De cathryn vitek en 11-10-24
De: Daniel M. Lavery
-
Someone Like Us
- A Novel
- De: Dinaw Mengestu
- Narrado por: Junior Nyong'o
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 18
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 18
After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage to Hannah on the verge of collapse, he returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington, DC, that defined his childhood. At its center is Mamush’s stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as a cover for a harder, more troubling truth.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Not ideal as an audiobook
- De Kate Liburdi en 04-09-25
De: Dinaw Mengestu
-
Scaffolding
- A Novel
- De: Lauren Elkin
- Narrado por: Lauren Elkin
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 22
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 21
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
Two couples in two separate but similar times-set against a backdrop of political disappointment and intellectual controversy-face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding is about the way our homes hold communal memories of all their inhabitants and their stories; about the bonds we create, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways people we've loved live on in us.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful
- De Laura M en 11-14-24
De: Lauren Elkin
-
Orbital
- De: Samantha Harvey
- Narrado por: Sarah Naudi
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 396
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 357
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 357
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Dull
- De ELLEZEE en 02-03-24
De: Samantha Harvey
-
Fire Exit
- De: Morgan Talty
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 37
From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of Roger and Mary raising their only child, Elizabeth from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there’s always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from this family and the rest of the tribal community. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wonderful story about love, family , truth and deception and identity
- De ReallyNelie en 06-23-24
De: Morgan Talty
-
Rejection
- Fiction
- De: Tony Tulathimutte
- Narrado por: Micky Shiloah, Allyson Ryan, Quincy Surasmith, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 224
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 213
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 213
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Trigger warning for one chapter, otherwise really creative
- De Amazon Customer en 10-06-24
-
This Strange Eventful History
- De: Claire Messud
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 62
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 55
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all. This Strange Eventful History, told with historical sweep, is above all a family story: of patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them and stifles their children; of François and Denise, devoted siblings connected by their family's strangeness; of François's union with Barbara; of Chloe, the result of that union.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Be Prepared for a Jarring Narration
- De Thomp/Suis en 05-17-24
De: Claire Messud
-
Good Girl
- A Novel
- De: Aria Aber
- Narrado por: Mozhan Navabi
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In Berlin’s artistic underground, where techno and drugs fill warehouses still pockmarked from the wars of the twentieth century, nineteen-year-old Nila at last finds her tribe. Born in Germany to Afghan parents, raised in public housing graffitied with swastikas, drawn to philosophy, photography, and sex, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice as a young woman and artist. Then in the haze of Berlin’s legendary nightlife, Nila meets Marlowe, an American writer whose fading literary celebrity opens her eyes to a life of freedom.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The Realism
- De elizabeth en 02-20-25
De: Aria Aber
-
The Anthropologists
- De: Aysegül Savas
- Narrado por: Kathryn Aboya
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 41
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life here look like? What rituals will structure their days? Whom can they consider family? As the young couple dreams about the possibilities of each new listing, Asya, a documentarian, gathers footage from the neighborhood like an anthropologist observing local customs. “Forget about daily life,” chides her grandmother on the phone. “We named you for a whole continent and you’re filming a park.”
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Can't say it's good
- De Moraz en 12-22-24
De: Aysegül Savas
-
Held
- A Novel
- De: Anne Michaels
- Narrado por: Anne Michaels
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 50
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls—a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Would give six stars if possible
- De love it en 08-31-24
De: Anne Michaels
-
Catalina
- A Novel
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 71
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her own complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world that has no place for the undocumented; her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires. She infiltrates the school’s elite subcultures—internships and literary journals, posh parties and secret societies.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
Monotone delivery
- De Patricia M Hart en 11-01-24
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
Small Rain
- A Novel
- De: Garth Greenwell
- Narrado por: Garth Greenwell
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Masterpiece
- De Herluf Kanstrup en 09-22-24
De: Garth Greenwell
-
Behind You Is the Sea
- A Novel
- De: Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Narrado por: Rasha Zamamiri, Ali Nasser
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for “dishonoring” their name.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautiful
- De Melahdeedah en 02-20-24
-
The Book of Love
- A Novel
- De: Kelly Link
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 23 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 155
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 147
In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Held me hostage for way too long without payoff
- De Fay en 12-25-24
De: Kelly Link
-
Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
-
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
- De: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
- Narrado por: Nene Nwoko
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Being the opara of the family, Kingsley Ibe is entitled to certain privileges—a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation from university. But times are bad in Nigeria. Now he worries that without a "long-leg"—someone who knows someone who can help him—his degrees will do nothing. When a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in Nigeria, but it's money that does the talking. When Kingsley turns to his Uncle Boniface for help, he learns that charity may come with strings attached.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The narration
- De Simisola Akintuyi en 10-21-24
-
The Melancholy of Untold History
- A Novel
- De: Minsoo Kang
- Narrado por: Keong Sim
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 3
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 3
A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative through the themes of love and grief.
De: Minsoo Kang
-
Small Rain
- A Novel
- De: Garth Greenwell
- Narrado por: Garth Greenwell
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value—art, memory, poetry, music, care—are thrown into sharp relief.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Masterpiece
- De Herluf Kanstrup en 09-22-24
De: Garth Greenwell
-
Behind You Is the Sea
- A Novel
- De: Susan Muaddi Darraj
- Narrado por: Rasha Zamamiri, Ali Nasser
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America. Their various fates and struggles cause their community dynamic to sizzle and sometimes explode: The wealthy Ammar family employs young Maysoon Baladi, whose own family struggles financially, to clean up after their spoiled teenagers. Meanwhile, Marcus Salameh confronts his father in an effort to protect his younger sister for “dishonoring” their name.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautiful
- De Melahdeedah en 02-20-24
-
The Book of Love
- A Novel
- De: Kelly Link
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 23 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 155
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 147
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 147
In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Held me hostage for way too long without payoff
- De Fay en 12-25-24
De: Kelly Link
-
Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 67
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
-
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
- De: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
- Narrado por: Nene Nwoko
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 24
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Being the opara of the family, Kingsley Ibe is entitled to certain privileges—a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation from university. But times are bad in Nigeria. Now he worries that without a "long-leg"—someone who knows someone who can help him—his degrees will do nothing. When a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in Nigeria, but it's money that does the talking. When Kingsley turns to his Uncle Boniface for help, he learns that charity may come with strings attached.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The narration
- De Simisola Akintuyi en 10-21-24
-
The Melancholy of Untold History
- A Novel
- De: Minsoo Kang
- Narrado por: Keong Sim
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 3
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Historia2.5 out of 5 stars 3
A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative through the themes of love and grief.
De: Minsoo Kang
-
Rakesfall
- De: Vajra Chandrasekera
- Narrado por: Shiromi Arserio
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages.
-
The Coin
- A Novel
- De: Yasmin Zaher
- Narrado por: Sarah Agha
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
-
General3 out of 5 stars 29
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
-
Historia3 out of 5 stars 26
The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start. In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.
-
1 out of 5 stars
-
Interview of author on podcast piqued interest
- De amybarnard en 08-03-24
De: Yasmin Zaher
-
Colored Television
- A Novel
- De: Danzy Senna
- Narrado por: Kristen Ariza
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 303
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 280
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 280
Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Frustrating
- De Carolyn White en 12-12-24
De: Danzy Senna
-
Woodworm
- De: Layla Martinez, Sophie Hughes - translator, Annie McDermott - translator
- Narrado por: Raquel Beattie
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General3.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 7
-
Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 7
The house breathes. The house contains bodies and secrets. The house is visited by ghosts, by angels that line the roof like insects, and by saints that burn the bedsheets with their haloes. It was built by a smalltime hustler as a means of controlling his wife, and even after so many years, their daughter and her granddaughter can't leave. They may be witches or they may just be angry, but when the mysterious disappearance of a young boy draws unwanted attention, the two isolated women, already subj
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The bodies in the wall stood out to me the most.
- De nancy en 02-06-25
De: Layla Martinez, y otros
-
My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 107
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
-
Sweetness in the Skin
- A Novel
- De: Ishi Robinson
- Narrado por: Deja Bowens
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 91
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 86
Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old girl living in a tiny two-room house in Kingston, Jamaica, with her grandmother (who wants to improve the family’s social standing), her Aunt Sophie (who dreams of a new life in Paris for her and Pumkin), and her mother Paulette (who’s rarely home). When Sophie is offered the chance to move to France for work, she seizes the opportunity, and promises to send for her niece in one year’s time....
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Perseverance in Paradise
- De Vaal807 en 04-17-25
De: Ishi Robinson
-
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
- Stories
- De: Ruben Reyes Jr.
- Narrado por: Johnny Rey Diaz
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
An ordinary man wakes one morning to discover he’s a famous reggaetón star. An aging abuela slowly morphs into a marionette puppet. A struggling academic discovers the horrifying cost of becoming a Self-Made Man. In There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. conjures strange dreamlike worlds to explore what we would do if we woke up one morning and our lives were unrecognizable. Boundaries between the past, present, and future are blurred. Menacing technology and unchecked bureaucracy cut through everyday life with uncanny dread.
De: Ruben Reyes Jr.
-
Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- De: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrado por: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 10
Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I died a thousand times
- De Millican en 06-02-24
-
The Immortal King Rao
- De: Vauhini Vara
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 15 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 96
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government. In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King’s daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy—literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
it didn't have a resolution.
- De Cooper Travis en 06-24-22
De: Vauhini Vara
-
Devil Is Fine
- A Novel
- De: John Vercher
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of immediately selling the land. But upon inspection, what lies beneath the dirt is much more than he can process in the throes of grief. As a biracial Black man struggling with the many facets of his identity, he’s now the owner of a former plantation passed down by the men on his white mother’s side of the family.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Mesmerizing
- De Gina Middleton en 06-24-24
De: John Vercher
-
The Bright Sword
- A Novel of King Arthur
- De: Lev Grossman
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith, Lev Grossman
- Duración: 23 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 535
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 495
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 495
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a place at the Round Table, only to find that he’s too late. King Arthur died two weeks ago at the Battle of Camlann, and only a handful of the knights of the Round Table are left. The survivors aren’t the heroes of legend like Lancelot or Gawain. They’re the oddballs of the Round Table, like Sir Palomides, the Saracen Knight, and Sir Dagonet, Arthur’s fool, who was knighted as a joke. They’re joined by Nimue, who was Merlin’s apprentice until she turned on him and buried him under a hill.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
A rambling woke mess
- De Adam en 07-18-24
De: Lev Grossman
-
The Familiar
- A Novel
- De: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,815
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707
In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The performance was superior!
- De anonymous2812 en 04-14-24
De: Leigh Bardugo