Audiobooks by Percival Everett

"'Es el tipo de libro que solo puede escribir un maestro.' Christian Lorentzen.Un afamado pintor de mediana edad nos cuenta cómo se ha librado del peso de un secreto que no le permitía vivir. Un secreto lleva a otro y a otro hasta que la comunicación con los más cercanos resulta imposible. El protagonista cuenta su viaje juvenil a El Salvador atravesado por la muerte y la violencia, un affair amoroso en París y su fracturada vida familiar en los Estados Unidos.Una historia actual contada con una sencillez de lenguaje llamativa y que alcanza una gran profundidad.Junto al secreto aparecen temas tan actuales como las diferencias sociales, los problemas de comunicación en la familia, el arte y la vida cotidiana, y, sobre todo, la necesidad de abandonar el desdoblamiento para tener una vida digna.¿Nos damos cuenta de que las decisiones que tomamos están condicionadas por nuestros secretos? Un libro en el que la amistad aparece al mismo nivel que el amor. ¿Qué podemos llegar a hacer por una amistad?La acción transcurre en una vida cotidiana como la nuestra, aunque el protagonista-narrador sea un pintor afamado. De manera que leemos la historia con suma atención.Desde el punto de vista ideológico, resulta muy interesante la salida de la ironía postmoderna del personaje hacia un deseo de vida más humanista."

Percival Everett (Author), Ángel Morón (Narrator)

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A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid: A Novel

"Veteran authors Everett and Kincaid present an uproarious send-up of one of America's most controversial American icons. '[A]n outrageously funny satire of race relations and racism, US history, contemporary sexual mores and behavior, academia, and the publishing industry . . . It could become a cult-classic . . . Highly recommended.' —Library Journal Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history."

James Kincaid, Percival Everett (Author), James Fouhey (Narrator)

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Watershed: from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James

"'American literature's philosopher king - and its sharpest satirist' - The New Yorker In Watershed, Percival Everett, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James, turns his focus once again to the injustices of recent American history, exploring the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James in paperback now."

Percival Everett (Author), JD Jackson (Narrator)

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[French] - James

"« Ces gamins blancs, Huck et Tom, m’observaient. Ils imaginaient toujours des jeux dans lesquels j’étais soit le méchant soit une proie, mais à coup sûr leur jouet. [...] On gagne toujours à donner aux Blancs ce qu’ils veulent. » Qui est James ? Le jeune esclave illettré qui a fui la plantation ? Ou cet homme cultivé et plein d’humour qui se joue des Blancs ? Percival Everett transforme le personnage de Jim créé par Mark Twain, dans son roman Huckleberry Finn , en un héros inoubliable. James prétend souvent ne rien savoir, ne rien comprendre ; en réalité, il maîtrise la langue et la pensée comme personne. Ce grand roman d’aventures, porté par les flots tourmentés du Mississippi, pose un regard incisif entièrement neuf sur la question du racisme. Mais James est surtout l’histoire déchirante d’un homme qui tente de choisir son destin. Percival Everett est l’auteur d’une vingtaine de romans, de plusieurs recueils de nouvelles, de poésie et d’essais. James a reçu en 2024 le National Book Award et connaît un immense succès dans le monde entier. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Anne-Laure Tissut"

Percival Everett (Author), Jean-Baptiste Anoumon (Narrator)

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Suder

"'American literature's philosopher king - and its sharpest satirist' - The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he's inherited his mother's insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker's "Ornithology" and flees. A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James in paperback now."

Percival Everett (Author), JD Jackson (Narrator)

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Half an Inch of Water: Stories

"A new collection of stories set in the West from 'one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers' (NPR) Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved dog. For the plainspoken men and women of these stories—fathers and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarians—small events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. A harmless comment about how to ride a horse changes the course of a relationship, a snakebite gives rise to hallucinations, and the hunt for a missing man reveals his uncanny resemblance to an actor. Half an Inch of Water tears through the fabric of the everyday to examine what lies beneath the surface of these lives. In the hands of master storyteller Everett, the act of questioning leads to vistas more strange and unsettling than could ever have been expected."

Percival Everett (Author), Sean Crisden (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - JAMES: Premio Pulitzer 2025

"PREMIO PULITZER 2025 NATIONAL AWARD PRIZE 2024 James es un libro fascinante. Una reescritura de Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain desde el punto de vista de Jim, el esclavo. Con el humor típico de Percival Everett y una inteligencia sobrecogedora, el lector vive una gran aventura, la de la libertad. James es el nombre de la dignidad. El esclavo ha visitado de forma clandestina la biblioteca de su amo y ha aprendido a leer y escribir. Cuando se entera de que lo han vendido y lo van a separar de su mujer y su hija decide escaparse. En esa aventura trepidante lo acompaña Huck. Los dos se convierten en una pareja de personajes que se necesitan mutuamente no sólo para sobrevivir, también para conocerse y saber cuál es su verdadera conexión. El lenguaje es fundamental en este libro de lectura trepidante construido casi enteramente en diálogos inteligentes. Las críticas han sido excepcionales en todos los grandes medios de comunicación de Estados Unidos y Reino Unido. Considerada de forma generalizada como una obra de arte ha encumbrado a Percival Everett en la cima de los autores literarios contemporáneos de su país. Una fascinante y conmovedora lectura para todas las edades. Percival Everett es un escritor estadounidense distinguido con numerosos premios. Sus libros más recientes han sido publicados en De Conatus. Dr. No ganó el premio PEN 2023 Los árboles fue finalista del Booker Prize 2022. Cuánto azul considerado una obra fundamental por el crítico James Wood. American Fiction, ganadora del óscar 2024 al mejor guión adaptado está basada en su obra Cancelado. Próximamente en De Conatus también publicaremos Telephone, finalista del premio Pulitzer en 2021 y su obra poética Sonetos para una tonalidad perdida."

Percival Everett (Author), Ángel Morón (Narrator)

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Walk Me to the Distance: A modern Western from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James

"'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy' - The New York Times David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut's Hole, Wyoming. There he finds lodging with Chloë Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at the highway rest stop where he works, but at the edge of this tableau lingers the unmistakable spectre of violence. Blending the grotesquerie of the Southern Gothic with the Western's codes of frontier justice, in Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett renders a vivid and haunting landscape of the American badlands, where cruelty is the lingua franca. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Listen to Percival's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel James on Audible now."

Percival Everett (Author), Jared Zeus (Narrator)

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Damned If I Do

"Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem. Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America's most inventive living writers. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James in paperback now."

Percival Everett (Author), André Santana, Jd Jackson, Ron Butler, Torian Brackett, Vaughn Johseph (Narrator)

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James: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

"'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' - The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett. The Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Fiction Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of The British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. So begins a dangerous and transcendent journey along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. And together, the unlikely pair embark on the most life-changing odyssey of them all . . . A 'Book of the Year' in The Observer, The Times & Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Spectator, New Statesman, Independent, TLS, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, i newspaper, The Economist, The Irish Times, The New York Times, TIME and The New Yorker 'Who should read this book? Every single person in the country' - Ann Patchett 'Scorchingly funny and action-packed' - The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' 'This may be Everett's best book yet' - Bonnie Garmus 'Playful and viciously comic' - The Telegraph, 'Books of the Year' 'My favourite novel this year' - Salman Rushdie"

Percival Everett (Author), Dominic Hoffman (Narrator)

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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

"Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is a story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett's recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical enquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James in paperback now."

Percival Everett (Author), André Santana (Narrator)

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier

"I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of James and Erasure. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar-winning actor, and serious amount of shares in the Turner Corporation. Percival Everett's novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin colour with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not Sidney learns to navigate a world that doesn't know what to do with him. 'American literature's philosopher king - and its sharpest satirist' - The New Yorker Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature."

Percival Everett (Author), Amir Abdullah (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Percival Everett

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