Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa literaria

Il conte Neville, aristocratico belga decaduto, è costretto a vendere il suo magnifico castello nelle Ardenne. Prima di uscire di scena, per celebrare l'onore della famiglia, decide di organizzare una lussuosissima festa di addio. Ma nei giorni che precedono l'evento Sérieuse, la sua figlia più giovane, fugge di casa e si nasconde nella foresta. A trovarla è una misteriosa chiaroveggente e sarà costei, dopo aver avvertito il conte del ritrovamento della ragazza, a fargli una spaventosa profezia: "Durante il ricevimento, lei ucciderà un invitato".

Un dialogo serrato e scintillante di ironia fra una scrittrice rompiscatole di oggi e Celsius, abitante del futuro. Un'antiutopia tagliente che prende l'avvio da un evento storico lontano nel tempo, o forse appena avvenuto: l'eruzione del Vesuvio nel 79 d.C., e la conseguente distruzione di Pompei.

Los personajes de Bestiaria vida van configurando el laberinto en el que vive nuestro personaje: una mujer que se enfrenta a sus propios demonios personales y que en un momento determinado hace un ejercicio de reflexión para contarnos su historia. Su objetivo no es otro que analizar por qué ha llegado a la situación en la que se encuentra. Los vínculos entre el sujeto y su entorno familiar se explican a través de personajes que, mediante analogías, son identificados con el bestiario literario.

A workhouse orphan, Oliver experiences the terror and brutality of the criminal underworld. His companions, a thief, a whore, a pickpocket, and a fence, are destined for gruesome ends, but Oliver emerges unscathed from the darkness of the underworld.

アンちゃんがデパ地下の和菓子屋「みつ屋」で働き始めて8ヶ月。販売の仕事には慣れてきたけど、和菓子についてはまだまだ知らないことばかりだ。でも、だからこそ学べることもたくさんある。

氷野照明に勤める奈良瑛子が近所で見つけたのは、カフェ・ルーズという小さな喫茶店。そこを一人で切り盛りしているのは、かつての同僚・葛井円だった。

Entrevistas de ultratumba brinda a escritores de carne y hueso el raro privilegio de conversar con personajes históricos con los que siempre han deseado regalarse una buena charla.

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.

Born from Bukowski's columns, the LA underground press of the 1960s, Bukowski defined his early alter ego, Hank Chinaski, as a self-described dirty old man who eyes his defeatist attitude about himself with his clarity to see humor and holiness in others. Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen. Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - Notes features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, and his tortured, violent relationships.

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.

When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a better life. Their arrival in the city coincides with the eruption of a political scandal. The education minister, Chief Sandayo, has disappeared and is suspected of stealing millions of dollars from government funds.

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.