Audiobooks by Laurent Binet

Perspectives

"Brought to you by Penguin. Florence, New Year’s Day 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart. Above him, the paintings he laboured over for more than a decade. At his home, a hidden painting scandalously depicting Maria de Medici, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Florence, as a naked Venus. Who is the murderer? Who is behind the painting? As the city erupts in chaos, Giorgio Vasari, the great art historian, is picked to lead the investigation. Letters fly back and forth carrying news of political plots and speculation about the killer’s identity – between Maria and her aunt Catherine de’ Medici, the queen of France; between Catherine and her scheming agents in Florence; and between Vasari and his friend Michelangelo. Meanwhile, the Pope is banning books and branding works of art immoral. And the truth, when it comes to light, is as shocking as the bold new artworks that have made Florence the red-hot centre of Europe. Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we’ve never seen it before – a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art. © Laurent Binet 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Laurent Binet (Author), John Sackville, Justin Avoth, Rachel Bavidge (Narrator)

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[German] - Eroberung (Ungekürzte Lesung)

"Europa wird zur Neuen Welt Was, wenn in der Geschichte Europas zwei Dinge anders gelaufen wären? Erstens: Die Wikinger wären mit Pferden und eisernen Waffen bis nach Südamerika gesegelt. Zweitens: Kolumbus hätte Amerika nicht entdeckt. In diesem Fall erobern die Inkas Europa. Sie landen im 16. Jahrhundert in Portugal, besiegen Karl V. in Frankreich und die Anhänger der Inquisition in Spanien. In Deutschland helfen ihnen die Fugger, das viele Gold zu verteilen. Im Herzen von Paris wird eine Pyramide errichtet, in Wittenberg schlägt man die '95 Thesen der Sonne' an. Federschmuck ziert die Häupter der Europäer. Laurent Binet entwirft in Eroberung eine fulminante Alternativweltgeschichte und stellt die Frage: Wie ginge es uns heute, wären wir statt der kapitalistischen Ideologie den Lehren des Inkahäuptlings Atahualpa gefolgt?"

Laurent Binet (Author), Stefan Kaminski (Narrator)

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