Audiobooks by John Irving

"After forty years, John Irving returns to the world of his bestselling classic novel and Academy Award-winning The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud's, Maine, where Dr Wilbur Larch takes in Esther, a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism. Esther Nacht is born in Vienna in 1905. Her father dies on board a ship from Bremerhaven to Portland, Maine, and anti-Semites murder her mother in Portland. In the orphanage at St. Cloud's, it's clear to Dr Larch, the physician and director of the orphanage, that the abandoned child not only knows she's Jewish, but she's familiar with the biblical Queen Esther she was named for. Dr Larch knows it won't be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther; he doubts he'll find any family to adopt her. When Esther is fourteen, soon to become a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a philanthropic family with a history of providing for unadopted orphans. The Winslows aren't Jewish, but they detest anti-Semitism and similar prejudice. Esther's gratitude to the Winslows is unending. As she retraces her steps to her birth city, Esther keeps loving and protecting the Winslows – even in Vienna. The final chapter of this historical novel is set in Jerusalem in 1981, when Esther is seventy-six."

John Irving (Author), Ari Fliakos (Narrator)

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The Last Chairlift

"John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor. Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren't the first or the last ghosts he sees. John Irving has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time - among them, The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. A visionary voice on the subject of sexual tolerance, Irving is a bard of alternative families. In The Last Chairlift, readers will once more be in his thrall."

John Irving (Author), Aden Hakimi, Aida Reluzco, Cassandra Campbell, Chanté Mccormick, Chris Henry Coffey, Em Grosland, Erin Ruth Walker, Graham Halstead, Jacques Roy, Nancy Wu, Natalie Naudus, Natasha Soudek, Pete Simonelli, Piper Goodeve, Raquel Beattie, Travis Tonn (Narrator)

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[German] - 10 Jahre lit.COLOGNE mit John Irving - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

John Irving (Author), Gerd Köster, Susanne Becker (Narrator)

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[Russian] - Правила дома сидра

"Этот роман - настоящая современная классика американской литературы. История сироты по имени Гомер, его взросления в приюте, дружбы со врачом, заменившем ему отца, и постепенном становлении его как профессионала, написана с огромной любовью к человеку и природе. Действие романа разворачивается в середине 20 века, и в романе поднимаются острые и болезненные темы: права женщин, права на аборты, Вторая мировая война... 'Правила дома сидра' - это душераздирающая история любви и тяжелого морального выбора, одиночества и принадлежности: в мир этой книги хочется погрузиться с головой, и жаль покидать, когда роман подходит к концу. В 1999 году роман был экранизирован режиссером Лассе Халльстрёмом с Тоби Магуайром и Шарлиз Терон в главных ролях: эта экранизация получила две премии 'Оскар' и множество других наград. © THE CIDER HOUSE RULES by John Irving."

John Irving (Author), Алексей Багдасаров (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Hotel New Hampshire

"Questa è la storia di una famiglia un po' eccentrica e sgangherata. A raccontarla in prima persona è uno dei cinque figli, quello di mezzo, che dà l'avvio alla narrazione dal giorno in cui suo padre si comprò un orso e sposò sua madre. Poi venne il sidecar e infine i cinque figli. Così equipaggiata la famiglia Berry vaga per il mondo alla ricerca del luogo perfetto per l'Hotel New Hampshire, un 'luogo dove ognuno di noi può essere se stesso'. Mentre il lettore si addentra nelle mirabolanti e scanzonate avventure della famiglia Berry alla conquista della terra promessa, altri personaggi si avvicendano a ricoprire i ruoli di questa storia: terroristi e domatori, sognatori e prostitute, stupratori e frustati, animali impagliati e illusionisti. © 2016 Giunti Editore S.p.A./Bompiani"

John Irving (Author), Alessandro Castellucci (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Le regole della casa del sidro

"Homer Wells, ragazzo dall'animo ricco di sentimenti e di ideali, cresce in un orfanatrofio nel cuore della provincia americana. Il medico Wilbur Larch è il suo educatore e ha per lui grandi progetti... Il più celebre dei romanzi di Irving narra la loro storia. Una storia fatta di speranze disattese e desiderio di riscatto. Per Homer la strada per capire le regole della vita sarà lunga, disseminata di dolori e asperità. © 1985 by Garp Enterprises Ltd © 2018 Giunti Editore S.p.A. Prima edizione: 1985"

John Irving (Author), Alessandro Castellucci (Narrator)

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[French] - Avenue des mystères

"Lors d’un voyage aux Philippines, Juan Diego Guerrero, écrivain américain célèbre et vieillissant, revit en rêves récurrents les épisodes de son adolescence au Mexique, à la lisière de la décharge publique de Oaxaca où lui et sa sœur Lupe ont grandi. Des émotions, il en aura tout au long de son périple, notamment avec Miriam et Dorothy, mère et fille aussi désirables qu’inquiétantes."

John Irving (Author), Bertrand Suarez-Pazos (Narrator)

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Avenue of Mysteries

"Brought to you by Penguin. Juan Diego’s little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret – Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. And sometimes she knows more. What a terrible burden it is to know – or to think you know – your future, or worse, the future of someone you love. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead? Later in life, Juan Diego embarks on a journey to fulfil a promise he made in his youth. It is a long story and it has long awaited an ending, but Juan Diego is unable to write the final chapters. This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past. © John Irving 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016"

John Irving (Author), Armando Duran (Narrator)

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In One Person

"A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a 'sexual suspect,' a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 - in his landmark novel of 'terminal cases,' The World According to Garp. His most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy's friends and lovers - a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile.'"

John Irving (Author), John Benjamin Hickey (Narrator)

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A Son of the Circus

"A Hindi film star, an American missionary, a pair of twins separated at birth, a diminutive chauffeur, and a serial killer collide in a riotous novel by the author of The World According to Garp 'His most entertaining novel since Garp.'—The New York Times Book Review 'A Son of the Circus is comic genius . . . get ready for [John] Irving's most raucous novel to date.'—The Boston Globe 'Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country, culture, or religion to call his own. . . . The novel may not be 'about' India, but Irving's imagined India, which Daruwalla visits periodically, is a remarkable achievement—a pandemonium of servants and clubmen, dwarf clowns and transvestite whores, missionaries and movie stars. This is a land of energetic colliding egos, of modern media clashing with ancient cultures, of broken sexual boundaries.'—New York Newsday 'His most daring and most vibrant novel . . . The story of circus-as-India is told with gusto and delightful irreverence.'—Bharati Mukherjee, The Washington Post Book World 'Ringmaster Irving introduces act after act, until three (or more) rings are awhirl at a lunatic pace. . . . [He] spills characters from his imagination as agilely as improbable numbers of clowns pile out of a tiny car. . . . His Bombay and his Indian characters are vibrant and convincing.'—The Wall Street Journal 'Irresistible . . . powerful . . . Irving's gift for dialogue shines.'—Chicago Tribune"

John Irving (Author), David Colacci (Narrator)

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