Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa literaria

La Universitat de Pembroke és el punt d'inici d'aquesta història, el lloc on convergeixen les vides de la Laura, en David i la Sarah, origen d'un conflicte entre la passió i la lleialtat, l'amor i l'amistat. Relat d'aquest triàngle, "La història de la nostàlgia" és la crònica d'un viatge en què el lector visitarà els arxius plens de pols de les cases de Park Slope, a Brooklyn, compartirà tertúlies al Cafè de San Marco de Trieste i recorrerà les carreteres de Croàcia i Sèrbia fins als confins més remots del vell continent.

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.

会社役員刺殺事件を追う姫川玲子に、ガンテツこと勝俣警部補が15年前の事件を語り始める。刺された会社役員は薬害を蔓延させた元厚生官僚で、その息子もかつて殺害されていたというのだ。

Emilio Reyna es periodista y poeta. Su mujer acaba de abandonarlo y él lleva tres meses en Laguna Fría, un pueblo perdido en medio del Chaco. Reyna sigue el rastro de dos integrantes de una Fundación ambientalista a quienes se ha tragado la tierra. En Laguna Fría casi no hay agua y el clima es insoportable. Allí, Reyna conocerá al intendente Ibáñez, a su hijo Bebo (poeta "coo" y amante de las chacareras) y a un trío de policías enamorados entre sí.

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving comer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime—forgery, extortion, serial murder—Ripley still finds his appetite unquenched and longs to get back in the game.

"Nessun uomo è un'isola, intero in se stesso; ciascuno è un pezzo del continente, una parte dell'oceano. Se una zolla di terra viene portata via dal mare, l'Europa ne è diminuita [...]; la morte di qualsiasi uomo mi diminuisce, perché sono preso nell'umanità, e perciò non mandar mai a chiedere per chi suona la campana; essa suona per te" (John Donne).

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

Olinda Beja nos toma pela palavra e nos leva a seu país-ilha, São Tomé e Príncipe, para construir, à guisa da tradição oral africana, um cenário humano e natural encantatório, exuberante em vidas, cores e aromas. Suas histórias são como uma espécie de esconjuro redentor da desgraça e das agruras, traumas do passado longínquo e os do mais próximo porque assim se abre caminho ao sorriso de esperança nos olhos da liberdade.

Sie dachte, ihre größte Angst ist es, allein zu sein. Bis sie herausfindet, dass sie es nie war... Wer ist der "Nachbar"? Die Strafverteidigerin Sarah Wolff leidet an Monophobie, der Angst vor Einsamkeit. Was sie nicht weiß: Nachdem sie mit ihrer Tochter an den Stadtrand Berlins gezogen ist, hat sie einen unsichtbaren Nachbarn, der sie keine Sekunde lang allein lassen wird ... Das Unheimliche lauert im engsten Umfeld - der neue nervenzerreißende Psychothriller von #1-Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Fitzek sorgt für garantiert unruhige Nächte!

Drei Meter dreißig, so hoch sind die Wände der Wiener Altbauwohnung, in der Klara und Balázs leben. Doch eines Nachts verändert sich alles, Balázs liegt reglos im gemeinsamen Bett und ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt. Was bleibt von einer Liebe, wenn ein Leben endet? Wer ist man, wenn man seine Heimat verlassen hat und eine fremde Sprache spricht?

Dentro del Palacio de Bellas Artes el elenco se prepara para la representación de la ópera Las bodas de Fígaro. Se oye la obertura y tras bambalinas los artistas murmuran entre sí: in bocca al lupo. Poco antes de la tercera llamada, Damiana Guerra —cantante de ópera que interpreta a Susanna en la ópera de Mozart—recibe en camerino una súbita noticia: su padre se está muriendo. Y, sin embargo, la función debe continuar.

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God.

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.

El escenario de Chilean Electric está completamente a oscuras. Es la condición necesaria de un audiolibro preciso y singular, una bella genealogía de la luz. La Plaza de Armas de Santiago fue iluminada artificialmente en 1883 y la abuela de Nona Fernández estuvo allí, le dijo. Pero la mujer nació en 1908.

Moon has spent his life hiding what he is - a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself... someone who seems to know exactly what he is, who promises that Moon will be welcomed into his community.

As a child, Vicky Hall never had the sort of family she wanted. The least important person in her new step-family, ignored by her mother in favour of her two younger half siblings, Vicky was always an afterthought. Sitting alone at her graduation ceremony at the age of 21, she vows to create her own family and her own life, one which is full of the love and attention she has always craved.

Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret’d) is not interested in the frivolity of the modern world. Since his wife Nancy’s death, he has tried to avoid the constant bother of nosy village women; his grasping, ambitious son; and the ever-spreading suburbanisation of the English countryside, preferring to lead a quiet life upholding the values that people have lived by for generations. But when his brother’s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs Ali, the widowed village shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, the Major is drawn out of his regimented world.

Bram Stoker's masterpiece is at the same time intensely romantic and very modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic Count Dracula who preys on desirous damsels.

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself.... New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn.