Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Narrativa literaria

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.

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers - a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village - will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.

Con ecos de la novela Grandes esperanzas de Charles Dickens, Los niños es una novela inquietante y profundamente original, todo un hallazgo literario de una de las voces más interesantes del panorama de la literatura latinoamericana actual. A la casa de una mujer solitaria llega, una noche, un niño de seis años llamado Fidel. No se sabe de dónde viene ni quién es, habla siempre misteriosamente y parece no estar familiarizado con los usos del mundo.

Los emigrados es una meditación sobre la memoria y la pérdida: un relato melancólico, nada épico, sobre el desarraigo, la desesperación y la muerte. Sebald recrea las vidas de cuatro exiliados –o cinco, si se incluye su propio autorretrato indirecto– a través de lo que narran ellos mismos, de recuerdos ajenos, fotografías y objetos encontrados.

It is 1866 and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

Virginia Miner, a 50-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel.

John Kennedy Toole - who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces - wrote The Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of 16. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole's heirs. It was only in 1989, 35 years after it was written and 20 years after Toole's suicide at 31, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel was freed for publication.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, con sus personajes entrañables y situaciones fantásticas, es un clásico de la literatura universal. Siguiendo a un apurado conejo, Alicia cae en un agujero y llega a un mundo en el que reinan lo irracional y el absurdo. Luego de una serie de disparatadas aventuras en ese extraño lugar, Alicia logra vencer sus miedos y regresar a la realidad.

Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships - a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence - that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.

It is a popular belief that the Ramayana is idealistic while the Mahabharata is realistic. Yet these two epics have identical building blocks, identical themes, and identical history. In this groundbreaking book, Devdutt Pattanaik, India’s most popular mythologist, explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the two epics in a ‘playful analaysis’. Whether it is the family structure, forest exile, or war, the comparison between the two epics prove a startling point - the Mahabharata is in fact a reaction to the events in the Ramayana.

Los habitantes de Peñafonte, una pequeña aldea minera, tratan de subsistir en el particular equilibrio establecido tras los trágicos eventos de los últimos años: la revolución obrera

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.

Federica, una joven escritora en plena crisis creativa, decide escapar a las Maldivas en busca de inspiración. Antes de partir, su abuela le entrega un diario de su propia juventud, del que Federica no tenía constancia, con la idea de que lo pueda convertir en su siguiente obra de ficción.

Umami constituye una propuesta literaria original en su afán por explorar la amplia gama de sensaciones y emociones que el ser humano - en distintas etapas de la vida - experimenta. Una novela coral en la que los personajes aprenden a reinventarse para hacer frente a las adversidades y superar sus pérdidas. Ana quiere plantar una milpa en su traspatio, en pleno Distrito Federal. Pero en la tierra hay altos contenidos de plomo y la privada donde vive está plagada de ausencias. Su hermana murió, sus papás están de luto, y sus hermanos de campamento.

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed contains a dozen short works by John Irving, beginning with three memoirs, including an account of Mr. Irving’s dinner with President Ronald Reagan at the White House. The longest of the memoirs, The Imaginary Girlfriend,” is the core of this collection.

Los psicólogos llaman "delirio de relación" al trastorno por el cual una persona porfiada y muy vulnerable cree ver coincidencias en todo lo que le sucede, como si la casualidad obedeciera a una ley desconocida. Pero ¿qué quiere decir aquí "delirio"? Es posible que sea precisamente esa coincidencia de los hechos y las imágenes lo que permite tener por primera vez una vida propia. Los relatos con orla negra de W. G. Sebald cuentan cosas cotidianas e inquietantes, son testigos minuciosos y excesivos de un desajuste pertinaz.