Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa literaria

Con "Sonno profondo" Banana Yoshimoto indaga nel cuore di tre giovani donne e ne trae ombre plastiche, insinuanti, che echeggiano il vuoto della notte e la paura della solitudine. Vicina al germogliare più segreto delle emozioni, Yoshimoto disegna un mondo sfuggente e tuttavia concreto, che accompagna l'ascoltatore in un'avventura dell'anima di straordinaria incisività.

Fiodor, rampollo nullafacente di una ricca famiglia, ha un incidente di macchina a Santa Barbara, California. Suo padre, che si è ritirato in Costa Rica e alleva per hobby uccelli rari, lo spedisce a lavorare in una delle filiali dell'azienda di famiglia, a Milano. Qui Fiodor incontra Malaidina, una ragazza affascinante e misteriosa, e se ne innamora follemente. Sullo sfondo, il clima conflittuale e pericoloso dell'Italia degli anni '70.

Avid antiques collector Pierre-Francois Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an 18th-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core.

In a world increasingly connected to computers and machines but disconnected to self and others, Dr. Michele Stewart finds herself drowning in a life that no longer holds meaning. Searching for a deeper connection after losing her partner, Alice, she enters a contemplative monastery, living a life dedicated to prayer, to faith in things unseen.

In the 99th district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive.

The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. But being her father's favourite comes with uncomfortable duties, and she is often lonely behind the high walls.

Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.

In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen brought together one of the most beloved literary couples of all time - Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Now, Mr. Darcy's Decision continues the story of these passion-filled newlyweds as they enter London’s glamorous high society. This pause-resisting novel finds Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy entangled in the frivolity and ferocity of social intrigues.

In the secluded Dutch territory of Sleepy Hollow, nebbish schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with the town hero for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the 18-year-old daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel's farm one autumn evening, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, an apparition said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper snuffed out by a stray cannonball.

El gancho al hígado es un golpe temido en el boxeo, sacude el sistema nervioso y es capaz de mandar a la lona a cualquier contrincante. Los cuentos de Leo Felipe Campos narran la historia de personajes que han recibido este guantazo fulminante en el round más difícil de sus vidas: un viejo pasa las noches trapeando el piso del bar donde fue una estrella de la música; una niña enfrenta, junto a su madre, el suicidio de su hermana mayor; tres jóvenes machistas viajan a un carnaval en busca de mujeres sin saber que los espera un grupo de travestis; una boxeadora recibe una amenaza justo antes de defender su título mundial.

死んでほしいと思っていたパワハラ上司が死んだらしい。

L'écrivain renommé Gustav von Aschenbach, en proie à une crise créative, entreprend un voyage pour se ressourcer. Dès son arrivée, il est captivé par la beauté exceptionnelle d'un jeune adolescent polonais. Le jour suivant, il aperçoit à nouveau le garçon, prénommé Tadzio, sur la plage en compagnie de sa famille. Cette rencontre marque le début d'une obsession grandissante pour Aschenbach, qui se trouve profondément troublé par la présence de cet être d'une rare beauté.

各紙誌で絶賛された業界騒然のデビュー作。オール讀物新人賞史上最強の「ガールズ系小説」。女子校の甘くて苦い出来事を、やわらかく繊細な文章で描く受賞作ほか全4篇を収録

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.

新人の登竜門となる映画祭でグランプリを受賞した尚吾と紘。二人は大学卒業後、名監督への弟子入りとYouTubeでの発信という真逆の道を選ぶ。

戦後80年、広島生まれ育ちの著者が、いま戦争を描く。「ぼくのおじいちゃんは戦争で兵隊になって南方に行きました。」

開けたら最後。劇薬短編５話。彼女は私の親友で、私の男の母親……「私たちが轢かなかった鹿」身ごもりたい女と、身ごもることを許されなかった女……「不幸の＊＊＊＊」

「東京に逃げることにしたの」。高校を卒業してまもなく、同級生だった順子から清美に連絡が入る。二十も年上の男と駆け落ちするという。

四ツ角高校三年二組で一番美しく人気もあった生徒・更紗が突如自殺する。遺書もなくいじめがあったわけでもない。しかし彼女の死をきっかけに次々に女生徒が見えない力によって容姿を傷付けられていく。