
Talking Animals
A Novel
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

Compra ahora por $20.00
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Edoardo Ballerini
-
De:
-
Joni Murphy
Acerca de esta escucha
"Joni Murphy’s inventive and beautiful allegory depicts a city enmeshed in climate collapse, blinded to the signs of its imminent destruction by petty hatreds and monstrous greed: that is, the world we are living in now. Talking Animals is an Orwellian tale of totalitarianism in action, but the animals on this farm are much cuter, and they make better puns." - Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker
A fable for our times, Joni Murphy’s Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom.
It’s New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor. Sea creatures are viewed with fear and disgust and there’s chatter about building a wall to keep them out.
Alfonzo is a moody alpaca. His friend Mitchell is a sociable llama. They both work at City Hall, but their true passions are noise music and underground politics. Partly to meet girls, partly because the world might be ending, these lowly bureaucrats embark on an unlikely mission to expose the corrupt system that’s destroying the city from within. Their project takes them from the city’s bowels to its extremities, where they encounter the Sea Equality Revolutionary Front, who are either a group of dangerous radicals or an inspiring liberation movement.
In this novel, at last, nature kvetches and grieves, while talking animals offer us a kind of solace in the guise of dumb jokes. This is mass extinction as told by BoJack Horseman. This is The Fantastic Mr. Fox journeying through Kafka's Amerika. This is dogs and cats, living together. Talking Animals is an urgent allegory about friendship, art, and the elemental struggle to change one’s life under the low ceiling of capitalism.
©2020 Joni Murphy (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint “In the Dark Times,” originally published in German in 1939 as “Motto: In den finsteren Zeiten,” translated by Tom Kuhn. © 1976, 1961 by Bertolt-Brecht-Erben / Suhrkamp Verlag, from Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
All the Birds in the Sky
- De: Charlie Jane Anders
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.
-
-
Too twee for me.
- De Amy en 03-13-17
-
Ceremony
- De: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrado por: Pete Bradbury
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is.
-
-
Worth a re-read
- De Mariah en 02-02-09
-
Animal Farm
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!
-
-
If you hate spoilers, save the intro for last.
- De Dusty en 02-18-11
De: George Orwell
-
The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: John Green
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, best-selling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale - from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.
-
-
unexpected
- De E. Collins en 05-18-21
De: John Green
-
The Best of Me
- De: David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
For more than 25 years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to listen without laughing.
-
-
Almost No New Material
- De Lizardectomy en 11-05-20
De: David Sedaris
-
Why Fish Don't Exist
- A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- De: Lulu Miller
- Narrado por: Lulu Miller
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation.
-
-
If fish don't exist, do stars matter?
- De K. Ishihara en 12-05-20
De: Lulu Miller
-
All the Birds in the Sky
- De: Charlie Jane Anders
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during high school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families. But now they're both adults, living in the hipster mecca San Francisco, and the planet is falling apart around them.
-
-
Too twee for me.
- De Amy en 03-13-17
-
Ceremony
- De: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrado por: Pete Bradbury
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is.
-
-
Worth a re-read
- De Mariah en 02-02-09
-
Animal Farm
- De: George Orwell
- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!
-
-
If you hate spoilers, save the intro for last.
- De Dusty en 02-18-11
De: George Orwell
-
The Anthropocene Reviewed
- Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
- De: John Green
- Narrado por: John Green
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, best-selling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale - from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar.
-
-
unexpected
- De E. Collins en 05-18-21
De: John Green
-
The Best of Me
- De: David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
For more than 25 years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to listen without laughing.
-
-
Almost No New Material
- De Lizardectomy en 11-05-20
De: David Sedaris
-
Why Fish Don't Exist
- A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
- De: Lulu Miller
- Narrado por: Lulu Miller
- Duración: 4 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. When his specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation.
-
-
If fish don't exist, do stars matter?
- De K. Ishihara en 12-05-20
De: Lulu Miller
-
Vacationland
- True Stories from Painful Beaches
- De: John Hodgman
- Narrado por: John Hodgman
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
John Hodgman - New York Times best-selling author, semifamous personality, deranged millionaire, increasingly elderly husband, father, and human of Earth - has written a memoir about his cursed travels through two wildernesses: from the woods of his home in Massachusetts, birthplace of rage, to his exile on the coast of Maine, so-called Vacationland, home to the most painful beaches on Earth.
-
-
Not your typical coming of age story
- De Tiffany Pearce en 11-02-17
De: John Hodgman
-
The Undocumented Americans
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own.
-
-
Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- De RapaciousReader en 04-11-20
-
Counting Descent
- De: Clint Smith
- Narrado por: Clint Smith
- Duración: 1 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly across personal and political histories, all the while reflecting on the social construction of our lived experiences.
-
-
Beautiful Landscape
- De Crescent~Star en 06-26-21
De: Clint Smith
-
Half Empty
- Essays
- De: David Rakoff
- Narrado por: David Rakoff
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times best-selling author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed. In this deeply funny (and, no kidding, wise and poignant) audiobook, Rakoff examines the realities of our sunny, gosh everyone-can-be-a-star contemporary culture and finds that, pretty much as a universal rule, the best is not yet to come, adversity will triumph, justice will not be served, and your dreams won’t come true.
-
-
A Good Friend I Never Met
- De Rodney en 08-14-12
De: David Rakoff
-
A House of My Own
- Stories from My Life
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a region where “my ancestors lived for centuries,” the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection—spanning three decades, and including never-before-published work—Cisneros has come home at last.
-
-
Rich stories, wonderful narration.
- De Anna en 03-01-16
De: Sandra Cisneros
-
The Last True Poets of the Sea
- De: Julia Drake
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Larkin family isn't just lucky - they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine. One beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment and desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric.
-
-
An unexpectedly complex gem I’ll come back to repeatedly
- De tsarin black en 07-12-21
De: Julia Drake
-
The Hotel Neversink
- De: Adam O'Fallon Price
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing - and the ones that follow - will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion.
-
-
A Depressing Book, Depressingly Read
- De Bob P. en 05-29-21
-
Of Women and Salt
- A Novel
- De: Gabriela Garcia
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Gabriela Garcia
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.
-
-
Bored
- De Kay en 04-05-21
De: Gabriela Garcia
-
Chicago
- A Novel
- De: Brian Doyle
- Narrado por: Wayne Mitchell
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
On the last day of summer, a young college grad moves to Chicago and rents a small apartment on the north side of the city, by the lake. This is the story of the five seasons he lives there. A love letter to Chicago, the Great American City, and a wry account of a young man's coming-of-age during the one summer in White Sox history when they had the best outfield in baseball, Chicago is a novel that will plunge you into a city you will never forget and may well wish to visit for the rest of your days.
-
-
A fine, entertaining book, very well read.
- De Richard Delman en 09-28-19
De: Brian Doyle
-
Cantoras
- A Novel
- De: Carolina De Robertis
- Narrado por: Carolina De Robertis
- Duración: 13 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A genre-defining novel and De Robertis's masterpiece, Cantoras is a breathtaking portrait of queer love, community, forgotten history, and the strength of the human spirit. At once timeless and groundbreaking, Cantoras is a tale about the fire in all our souls and those who make it burn.
-
-
Excruciating to get through
- De Xochitl Casillas en 11-30-20
-
High Tide in Tucson
- Essays from Now or Never
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión resumida
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom.
-
-
Good book, but not unabridged...
- De Kathy Roberts Forde en 04-20-20
-
What on Earth Have I Done?
- Stories, Observations, and Affirmations
- De: Robert Fulghum
- Narrado por: Robert Fulghum
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Robert Fulghum's new book begins with a question we've all asked ourselves: "What on Earth have I done?" As Fulghum finds out, the answer is never easy and, almost always, surprising. For the last couple of years, Fulghum has been traveling the world, from Seattle to the Moab Desert to Crete, looking for a few fellow travelers interested in thinking along with him as he delights in the unexpected.
-
-
Healing words
- De Carolyn en 10-12-07
De: Robert Fulghum
Reseñas de la Crítica
"[Edoardo] Ballerini does a fantastic job setting the right tone of sincerity and seriousness while also portraying the main character, Alfonzo, a lovable, irascible alpaca who is just trying to get his dissertation done and move on with his life. This is a fantastic story and a masterful performance."
—AudioFile Magazine
"Come for the cover, which depicts a thoughtful alpaca, and stay for the tale of intrigue, climate change, and metropolitan doom - all in a world without humans. Sounds nice right now!"
―Vulture, "29 Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer" 2020
"A 21st-century combination of Animal Farm and Aesop's Fables . . . Murphy packs a lot of issues - class, climate change immigration, vegetarianism, and more - into a familiar plot about malfeasance. She balances her poetic ruminations and dogmatic lecturing with a goofy relish for puns . . . Weird yet engrossing and hard to forget."
―Kirkus (starred)
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Talking Animals
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- User
- 01-05-21
Feels graspy
This book was recommended to me/presented as a modern Animal Farm. Orwell's Animal Farm was simple and allegorial to past and current political issues, highlighting where the people and community give away their agency. As a reader seeing the animals do stupid things, I would have visceral reactions of disbelief, like, "No don't do that!" and then marvel seeing the parallel in today's world. Orwell took two seemingly unrelated stories (one fiction one nonfiction) that overlapped and that told the same story in a simple and relatable way.
In contrast, Talking Animals felt like it was grasping to convey a sense of what is going on in the world. Reading it did not feel natural, it felt forced like the characters and theme were made up to fit into today's global problems. The whole storyline is essentially about Alfonso waking up to the reality of global warming, immigration, racism, bureaucracy, and corrupt politics. But the way he wakes up is so incredibly boring and predictable that I had to force myself to finish the book. The worst part is, there was no reconciliation or solution, just a drifting sense of "Well now what."
There were two highlights of the book for me:
The first one is when he's at a party and he's trying to make sense of the bigger picture. And everybody's enjoying themselves and he's overthinking everything and one of the guests says to him, "Just enjoy yourself." For me that clicked because I tend to overthink a lot and not be in the present moment. So that was a good reminder and gave me a bit of a chuckle.
The other highlight was chapter 30, which is a message from the Ocean about how things are falling apart. That whole chapter and message was beautiful, moving, and heartfelt, and well written. I could finally feel emotion and a sense of connectedness and compassion to the whole (both in the book's story and how it relates to real life).
The rest of the book was just a meandering story. The fact that they were animals and not just people did not add anything special to the book, in fact I found a distracting.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña