Audiobooks by Joe Dunthorne

[German] - Kinder des Radiums: Auf den Spuren meiner jüdischen Familie

Familiengeheimnisse und die Suche nach Wahrheit Als der britische Autor Joe Dunthorne gebeten wird, einen Vortrag über seine Familie im »Dritten Reich« zu halten, macht er bei seinen Recherchen dazu eine schier unglaubliche Entdeckung: Sein jüdischer Urgroßvater Siegfried Merzbacher, der in den 1920er-Jahren in Oranienburg lebte und dort als Chemiker Haushaltsartikel herstellte, darunter eine radioaktive Zahnpasta, war später maßgeblich an der Entwicklung chemischer Waffen für die Nazis beteiligt. Erst Mitte der Dreißigerjahre emigrierte die Familie in die USA. Bis an sein Lebensende haderte Merzbacher mit seiner Vergangenheit. Eine atemberaubende Spurensuche. Basierend auf den Memoiren des Urgroßvaters, die die Jahre 1890 bis 1970 umspannen »Als Kind putzte sich meine Großmutter die Zähne mit radioaktiver Zahnpasta. Die Wohnung lag so nahe an der Fabrik, dass sie noch beim Einschlafen das Schütteln des Autoklavs hörte.« Recherchen zur eigenen Familiengeschichte führen Joe Dunthorne nach Oranienburg – nicht nur wegen der vielen Blindgänger aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die »gefährlichste Stadt Deutschlands«: Dunthornes Urgroßvater stellte hier radioaktive Zahnpasta sowie chemische Waffen für die Nazis her. Siegfried Merzbacher musste als Jude 1935 zwar das Land verlassen, konnte dies aber vollkommen unbehelligt tun. In seinen umfangreichen Memoiren, die er später schrieb, fehlt diese Episode seines Lebens ... Die außergewöhnliche Familiengeschichte eines preisgekrönten Autors

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Thomas Höricht (Narrator)

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Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Joe Dunthorne, TBD (Narrator)

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The Adulterants

Ray is not a bad guy. He mostly did not cheat on his heavily pregnant wife. He only sometimes despises every one of his friends. And though his career as a freelance tech journalist is dismal and he spends his afternoons churning out third-rate listicles in his boxer briefs, he dreams of making a difference. But Ray is about to learn that his special talent is for making things worse.

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Joe Dunthorne (Narrator)

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Wild Abandon

At a once vibrant communal-living property in the British countryside, back-to-basics fervor has given way to a vague discontent. A place that once buzzed with activity, from the polytunnels to the pottery shed, now functions with a skeleton crew. Founder Don Riley surveys his domain with the grim focus of someone who knows what's best for everyone and isn't afraid to let them know. Especially when those people are related to him. Don's wife, Freya, can't quite decide whether not liking someone anymore is enough reason to end a twenty-year marriage. So she decamps to a mud yurt in the woods to mull it over. Their seventeen-year-old daughter, Kate, enrolls in school for the first time in her life: the exotic new world of fellow teenagers and surprisingly tasty cafeteria food beckons, and she is quickly lured into the arms of a meathead classmate. In his sister's absence, eleven-year-old Albert falls under the spell of an outlandish new visitor to the community who fills his head with strange notions of the impending end of the world. Faced with the task of rescuing his son from apocalyptic fantasies, his daughter from the clutches of suburbia, and his wife from her increasingly apparent desire to leave him, Don convinces himself that the only way to save the world he's created is . . . to throw the biggest party of his life. Will anyone show up? From the acclaimed young author of Submarine, Wild Abandon is a strange and wonderful look at love familial and romantic,returned and rebuffed and the people and places we choose to call home.

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Tom Lawrence (Narrator)

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Wild Abandon

An eccentric and hilarious tale of a small Welsh community as it struggles to adjust to modern life; from the acclaimed author of Submarine. Kate and Albert, sister and brother, have grown up on a secluded communal farm. Now their home is disintegrating, taking their parents' marriage with it. Ignoring their attempts to escape, Don- father of the family, leader and maker of elaborate speeches- sets to work on reunifying the commune. To bring it into the modern age he'll need self-sufficiency, charisma and a rave with a 10k soundsystem...

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Tom Lawrence (Narrator)

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Submarine

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, 'a hippy-looking twonk', he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out . . .

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Craig Roberts (Narrator)

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Submarine (UAB)

The dryly precocious, soon-to-be-fifteen-year-old hero of this engagingly offbeat debut novel, Oliver Tate lives in the seaside town of Swansea, Wales. At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world surrounding him, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver is stealthily (and perhaps a bit more nervously than he'd ever admit) nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents' teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is his alluring and equally quirky classmate Jordana Bevan, and understanding where he fits in among the pansexuals, Zoroastrians, and other mystifying, fascinating beings in his orbit. "It's in my interests to know about my parents' mental problems," he reasons. Thus, when he discovers that his affable dad is quietly struggling with depression, Oliver marshals all the daytime-TV pop-psychology wisdom at his command–not to mention his formidable, uninhibited powers of imagination–in order to put things right again. But a covert expedition into the mysterious territory of middle-aged malaise is bound to be tricky business for a teenager with more to learn about the agonies and ecstasies of life than a pocket thesaurus and his "worldly" school chum Chips can teach him. Ready or not, however, Oliver is about to get a crash course. His awkwardly torrid and tender relationship with Jordana is hurtling at the speed of teenage passion toward the inevitable magic moment . . . and whatever lies beyond. And his boy-detective exploits have set him on a collision course with the New Age old flame who's resurfaced in his mother's life to lead her into temptation with lessons in surfing, self-defense . . . and maybe seduction. Struggling to buoy his parents' wedded bliss, deep-six his own virginity, and sound the depths of heartache, happiness, and the business of being human, what's a lad to do? Poised precariously on the cusp of innocence and experience, yesterday's daydreams and tomorrow's decisions, Oliver Tate aims to damn the torpedoes and take the plunge. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

Joe Dunthorne (Author), Bruce Mann (Narrator)

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