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A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist-and soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her subject's-in this chilling and singularly strange novella by a contemporary master of horror and fantasy.
The narrator of Lisa Tuttle's uncanny novella is a recent widow, a writer adrift. Not only has she lost her husband, but her muse seems to have deserted her altogether. Her agent summons her to Edinburgh to discuss her next book. What will she tell him? At once the answer comes to her: she will write the biography of Helen Ralston, best known, if at all, as the subject of W.E. Logan's much-reproduced painting Circe, and the inspiration for his classic children's book, Hermine in Cloud-Land.
But Ralston was a novelist and artist in her own right, though her writing is no longer in print and her most radical painting, My Death, deemed too unsettling-malevolent even-to be shown in public. Over the months that follow, Ralston proves an astonishingly cooperative subject, even as her biographer uncovers eerie resonances between the older woman's history and her own. Whose biography is she writing-really?
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Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to “capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris.” She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Tribute, Beautiful Writing
- De Amazon Customer en 07-07-23
De: Annie Ernaux, y otros
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The Wall
- De: Marlen Haushofer
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 21
While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masterpiece. I’ll be thinking about this for years.
- De John en 06-04-24
De: Marlen Haushofer
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Paradise Rot
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrado por: Brie Jackman
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 37
Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Wrong Voice
- De Orville en 08-18-24
De: Jenny Hval, y otros
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Madonna in a Fur Coat
- De: Maureen Freely - translator, Sabahattin Ali, Alexander Dawe - translator
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics, and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric, and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story. Such a gifted writer.
- De metin taskin en 10-21-20
De: Maureen Freely - translator, y otros
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Nothing but the Rain
- De: Naomi Salman
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 2 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 19
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be. By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting premise but doesn't deliver
- De Ruan Fourie en 04-16-25
De: Naomi Salman
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Open Throat
- De: Henry Hoke
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting the welfare of a nearby homeless encampment, observing obnoxious hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their gender identity, memories of a vicious father, and the indignities of sentience. “I have so much language in my brain,” our lion says, “and nowhere to put it.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gentle storytelling that packs a punch.
- De Caleb Clark en 08-01-23
De: Henry Hoke
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Mayflies
- A Novel
- De: Andrew O'Hagan
- Narrado por: Andrew O'Hagan
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films, and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush toward the climax of their youth: a magical weekend in Manchester, the epicenter of everything that inspires them in working-class Britain. There, against the greatest soundtrack ever recorded, a vow is made: to go at life differently.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I will return to this.
- De Steve en 08-13-22
De: Andrew O'Hagan
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Don't Call Us Dead
- Poems
- De: Danez Smith
- Narrado por: Danez Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality - the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood - and a diagnosis of HIV positive. "Some of us are killed / in pieces", Smith writes, "some of us all at once."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved this with all my heart
- De Elle en 06-24-20
De: Danez Smith
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Lapvona
- A Novel
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 743
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 627
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 627
Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consolations is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina’s ability to receive transmissions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina’s home in the woods is a godless place.
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3 out of 5 stars
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uncomfortable
- De Stetson en 07-04-22
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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The Discomfort of Evening
- A Novel
- De: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison - translator
- Narrado por: Genevieve Gaunt
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 115
Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world: her face soft like cheese under her mother’s hands; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads in the village; the sound of “blush words” that aren’t in the Bible. One icy morning, the disciplined rhythm of her family’s life is ruptured by a tragic accident, and Jas is convinced she is to blame.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Booker winner is a Downer
- De bjs en 09-05-20
De: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, y otros
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Bloom
- De: Delilah S. Dawson
- Narrado por: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella with the slow build menace of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber—from a New York Times-bestselling author hailed by Chuck Wendig as "a storyteller working at the top of her class."
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5 out of 5 stars
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what an ending
- De sam en 11-09-24
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Dept. of Speculation
- De: Jenny Offill
- Narrado por: Jenny Offill
- Duración: 3 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
Jenny Offill’s heroine, referred to in these pages as simply “the wife”, once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bourgeois whining
- De electricfool en 06-17-23
De: Jenny Offill
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Biography of X
- A Novel
- De: Catherine Lacey
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 6 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 64
When X—an iconoclastic artist and shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow CM, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing X's biography. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. In CM's quest to unravel it, she opens a Pandora’s box of secrets and destruction. All the while, she immerses herself in the history of the Southern Territory, a fascist theocracy that split from the rest of the country after World War II, as it is finally, in the present day, forced into an uneasy reunification.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst book I’ve ever read
- De Rebecca en 11-09-23
De: Catherine Lacey
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The Mysteries
- De: Lisa Tuttle
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Laura Lensky's daughter has been missing for two years. For the police, it's a closed case - she wanted to run away - but for her mother and boyfriend, it's a different story. When Laura hires private investigator Ian Kennedy, it is a last-ditch attempt to find her daughter before she leaves for America. Drawn in by strange parallels to an obscure Celtic myth and his first almost unexplainable case, Ian takes the job. But his beliefs are about to be stretched to their limit - there are darker and more devious forces at work here than any of them imagined.
De: Lisa Tuttle
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Everything You Ever Wanted
- De: Luiza Sauma
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
You stay in bed until the afternoon, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much. Sometimes you don't get out of bed at all. Then you hear about Life on Nyx, a programme that allows 100 lucky winners the chance to escape it all, move to another planet and establish a new way of life. One with meaning and purpose. One without Instagram and online dating. There's one caveat: if you go, you can never come back. But you aren't worried about that. After all, what on Earth could there possibly be to miss?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good, melancholic listen
- De Anonymous User en 06-06-25
De: Luiza Sauma
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- De: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 5 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing SF From a Giant
- De JD en 06-28-23
De: Izumi Suzuki
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Death in Her Hands
- A Novel
- De: Ottessa Moshfegh
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 247
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 248
While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how she met her fate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Omg get ON with it
- De Nicole Dreyfus en 06-24-20
De: Ottessa Moshfegh
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Comfort Me with Apples
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Karis Campbell
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 206
Sophia was made for him, her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect; their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect; everything is perfect. It's just that he's away so much - so often. He works so hard. She misses him, and he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband, and everything is perfect.
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4 out of 5 stars
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strange story
- De Barbara S en 11-03-21
poetic!
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