Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa literaria

Madrid, 1906. Un Maharajá se enamora locamente de una joven bailarina malagueña. La muchacha se llama Anita Delgado. El riquísimo personaje es el monarca de un principado del Punjab. En 1908, Anita Delgado se convierte en la Princesa de Kapurthala. Ésta es la sorprendente narración de la vida de la única Maharaní española en la fascinante India de los Maharajás.

Un árabe abandona en un circo de pueblo a un niño junto a dos antiguos libros: Las mil y una noches. Cuando la trapecista del circo se lesiona, decide memorizar las historias para contarlas al público. Así le dará vida a Sherezade y al rey Shariyar hasta el punto de confundir, ella y el niño abandonado, sus roles dentro del mundo de la verdad y de la ilusión. Esta novela fue reconocida en 2017 con el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska.

Julian Barnes's Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's extraordinary real-life fight for justice. Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, George remains in hardworking obscurity.

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of 30 years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children.

“Dona Bárbara” foi escrito em 1929 e tem como cenário uma Venezuela rural, com enredo que foca no conflito entre diferentes famílias ao longo de gerações e a chegada de uma mulher que, por sua beleza e inteligência, corrompe a todos com o objetivo de enriquecer e tomar o poder da região. Para além do protagonismo feminino, a obra chama a atenção por trazer questões que ainda são bastante atuais na América Latina.

In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Jobe's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood.

Chao es un gallego que, como tantos otros pero de un modo distinto, emigra a Uruguay para, después, regresar a España, durante la década de los setenta, y vivir en Madrid todos los acontecimientos que marcaron la historia del pasado siglo. En la residencia donde nuestro protagonista pasa sus últimos días, conocerá a Carmen, una trabajadora que se verá impulsada a indagar en su pasado en busca de secretos.

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.

This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and naïve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormously successful and cemented Angela Carter's status as one of England's greatest and most daring writers.

Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons, the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his photograph is all over the papers. His disgrace is public, his position as curator of the Queen’s pictures terminated… Maskell writes his own testament, in an act not unlike the restoration of one of his beloved pictures, in order for the process of verification and attribution to begin.

Una moglie ama il marito, lo ama così tanto che ogni giorno si porta il suo membro al lavoro, nel cestino del pranzo accanto ai panini e ai biscotti. Un uomo che non mangia arance incomincia a manifestare una profonda e inquietante ossessione per questi frutti e la loro decomposizione. Una donna una mattina si sveglia e scopre che la sua caviglia destra è blu, poi anche l’altra caviglia, poi le gambe.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors, declaring that she will never marry. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword.

Friuli, 6 maggio 1976. È un giorno qualunque, di quelli che sembrano destinati a scivolare via senza lasciare traccia. Poi la terra comincia a tremare. E in un minuto, il Friuli cambia per sempre. Case che resistevano da secoli si sgretolano come polvere, famiglie intere scompaiono sotto le macerie, paesi interi vengono cancellati dalla geografia. Tra le macerie di Gemona e i paesi dell'alto Friuli, le storie di padri che scavano a mani nude, di madri che vegliano nel buio e di uomini arrivati da lontano per dare soccorso si intrecciano in un unico, potente grido di resistenza.

時枝修（ときえだおさむ）は、東京郊外にある私立大学の三年生。夏休み明けにクラス担任から告げられたのは、学費未納で除籍になるという寝耳に水の事実だった。北九州の実家では、借金を抱えた両親が失踪（しっそう）。貯金はないに等しい。

La prima volta in cui Rosa Sauer entra nella stanza in cui dovrà consumare i suoi prossimi pasti è affamata. "Da anni avevamo fame e paura," dice. Siamo nell'autunno del 1943, a Gross-Partsch, un villaggio molto vicino alla Tana del Lupo, il nascondiglio di Hitler. Ha ventisei anni, Rosa, ed è arrivata da Berlino una settimana prima, ospite dei genitori di suo marito Gregor, che combatte sul fronte russo.

Fraa Erasmas est un jeune chercheur vivant dans la congrégation de Saunt-Edhar, un sanctuaire pour les mathématiciens et les philosophes. Depuis des siècles, autour du sanctuaire, les gouvernements et les cités n'ont eu de cesse de se développer et de s'effondrer. Par le passé, la congrégation a été ravagée trois fois par la violence de conflits armés. Méfiante vis-à-vis du monde extérieur, la communauté de Saunt-Edhar ne s'ouvre au monde qu'une fois tous les dix ans.

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired.

Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air, and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls. And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways.

Alexander Price has survived gorgons, basilisks, and his own family - no small feat considering that his family includes two telepaths, a reanimated corpse, and a colony of talking, pantheistic mice. Still, he's starting to feel like he's got the hang of things - at least until his girlfriend, Shelby Tanner, shows up asking pointed questions about werewolves and the state of his passport.

AUSTRIACO POR NACIMIENTO, MEXICANO POR AMBICIÓN En 2015 se encontraron en Palacio Nacional, escondidos en la habitación que ocupara Benito Juárez, tres libros encuadernados en piel: las memorias secretas de Maximiliano de Habsburgo, emperador de México de 1864 a 1867. Esta novela es la transcripción de dichos cuadernos.