Audiobooks by Samantha Harvey

[Hindi] - Orbital (Hindi Edition) Audiobook

"इस पृथ्वी नाम के ग्रह पर हमारे जीवन का एक ऐसा स्वरूप जिसके बारे में आपने पहले कभी नहीं सोचा होगा।छह अंतरिक्षयात्री अपने अंतरिक्षयान में बैठकर लगातार पृथ्वी का चक्कर लगा रहे हैं। वहाँ उनका काम मौसम संबंधी आँकड़ों को इकट्ठा करना और वैज्ञानिक प्रयोगों को अंजाम देना है। लेकिन अमूमन वे अपना समय निरीक्षण में ही बिताते हैं। एक साथ मिलकर वे हमारी इस शांत नीले रंग के ग्रह को निहारते रहते हैं: एक ही दिन में शानदार सौंदर्य के अंतहीन नज़ारे उनकी आँखों के सामने से गुजरते हैं।हालाँकि वे दुनिया से अलग-थलग हैं लेकिन फिर भी लगातार होने वाली इसकी खींचतान भागने का कोई विकल्प उनके पास नहीं है। उन तक माँ के गुजर जाने की ख़बर पहुँचती है और इसके साथ ही मन में विचार उठने लगता है वापस पृथ्वी पर लौटने का। उनकी बातचीत, उनके डर, उनके सपने, सब कुछ ही मानव जीवन की क्षणभंगुरता से लबरेज़ है।पृथ्वी से दूर रहते हुए उन्हें इस बात का अभूतपूर्व अनुभव हुआ कि वे इसका अनन्य हिस्सा हैं या उनके भीतर इसे लेकर एक सुरक्षात्मक भाव है। पृथ्वी के बिना जीवन का अस्तित्व क्या है? मानवता के बिना पृथ्वी का क्या मतलब है? जैसे प्रश्नों से उनका दिमाग़ अटा पड़ा है।"

Samantha Harvey (Author), Shemaila Parvez (Narrator)

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[French] - Orbital: Une journée, seize aurores

"Booker Prize 2024 À l'intérieur de la Station spatiale internationale, chacun des six astronautes s'affaire à sa tâche, traversé par des interrogations existentielles. Certains s'inquiètent du sort de leur mariage, l'un rêve d'emmener sa fille dans l'espace tandis qu'une autre fait le deuil de sa mère. Si loin et si proches de la Terre, les astronautes n'ont jamais autant eu l'impression d'en faire partie, mais aussi d'en être les gardiens. Le temps s'écoule au rythme des orbites autour de la Terre, qui tient le rôle principal de ce roman contemplatif, mélancolique et à l'humour délicat. L'écriture suspendue de Samantha Harvey propose une conquête poétique de l'espace aux côtés de ces six personnages en quête de sens. © Samantha Harvey 2023 © Flammarion, 2024 (p) 2025 by W F Howes Limited."

Samantha Harvey (Author), Myriam Pruche (Narrator)

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Orbital: Winner of the Booker Prize

"Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction. The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity? 'Beautiful in every aspect' SARAH MOSS, author of Summerwater 'One of the most beautiful novels I have read in a very long time' MARK HADDON, author of The Porpoise 'One of the UK's most exquisite stylists' GUARDIAN ‘Awe-inspiring’ Max Porter ©2023 Samantha Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio"

Samantha Harvey (Author), Sarah Naudi (Narrator)

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[Italian] - Vento dell'Ovest

"Somerset, XV secolo. Oakham è un piccolo villaggio diviso a metà da un fiume senza ponti. Una mattina, alle prime luci dell’alba, John Reve, il parroco, viene svegliato da Herry Carter, un giovane noto a tutti in paese. Con voce concitata Carter gli dice che c’è un annegato nel fiume, giù a West Fields. Il corpo si è impigliato in un tronco e ci sbatte contro come uno straccio. Reve afferra l’ampolla del vino consacrato e quella dell’olio santo, e si precipita al fiume per impartire l’estrema unzione all’annegato. Una corsa a perdifiato alle calcagna di un giovanotto basso di statura ma di buone gambe, e il parroco è a West Fields. Del corpo, però, non c’è più alcuna traccia, tutto ciò che rimane è un pezzo di stoffa, una bella camicia olandese di buon lino, verde come i campi in primavera. Un indumento prezioso che può appartenere soltanto a una persona a Oakham, al benestante del paese che risponde al nome di Thomas Newman. Newman, del resto, è scomparso da due giorni, dalla mattina in cui il corpulento Robert Tunley, di ritorno forse da una delle sue numerose conquiste femminili, ha visto qualcuno rotolare nel fiume e svanire tra i flutti. È chiaro che l’uomo, che ha appena donato una cospicua somma per la costruzione di un ponte, non può essere annegato, né per accidente né per mano di qualcuno, senza che si indaghi attentamente sulla sua sorte. Il solo sospetto che possa essere stato ucciso spinge il vicario episcopale a recarsi a Oakham e dà inizio a una convulsa serie di false ammissioni, intrighi e sospetti che John Reve ha l’ingrato compito di raccogliere nel segreto della confessione. Thomas Newman è stato ucciso davvero? E chi può essere l’assassino? Il violento Oliver Townshend, signore del villaggio? O l’esangue Sarah Spenser che va dicendo di essere lei la colpevole? Oppure ancora Tunley, il seduttore abile nell’uso del veleno? Del resto, a Oakham, tutti hanno i loro segreti… Con una impeccabile scrittura, Samantha Harvey consegna al lettore un avvincente thriller ambientato nell’Inghilterra medievale, ricco di atmosfera e capace di tenere il lettore con il fiato sospeso fino alla fine."

Samantha Harvey (Author), Francesco Mei (Narrator)

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The Shapeless Unease: From the Booker Prize-winning author of Orbital

"Brought to you by Penguin. Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in relation to it. Samantha Harvey’s insomnia arrived, seemingly, from nowhere; for a year she has spent her nights chasing sleep that rarely comes. She’s tried everything to appease it. Nothing is helping. What happens when one of the basic human needs goes unmet? For Samantha Harvey, extreme sleep deprivation resulted in a raw clarity about life itself. Original and profound, The Shapeless Unease is a startlingly insightful exploration of memory, writing and influence, death and grief, and the will to survive. © Samantha Harvey 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Samantha Harvey (Author), Samantha Harvey (Narrator)

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The Western Wind

"Oakham, near Bruton, is a tiny village by a big river without a bridge. When a man is swept away by the river an explanation has to be found. The story is relayed by the village priest, John Reve, who in his role as confessor is privy to a lot of information that others have not. But will he be able to explain what happened to the victim? And what will happen if he can’t?"

Samantha Harvey (Author), Nyasha Hatendi (Narrator)

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Dear Thief

"In the middle of the night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket and starts writing. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that both women have preferred to forget. She writes night after night - a letter of friendship, by turns a belated outlet of rage and forgiveness, the letter dissects what is left of a friendship caught between the forces of hatred and love."

Samantha Harvey (Author), Anna Bentinck (Narrator)

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All is Song

"A fiercely intelligent and moving second novel from the author of the acclaimed The Wilderness Leonard Deppling returns to the capital from Scotland, where he has spent the past year nursing his dying father. Missing from the funeral was his younger brother William, a former lecturer and activist who lives with his wife and two young sons. Leonard is alone and rootless, he moves in with William hoping to unite their family and renew their friendship. But it seems William has already set his own fate in motion, news comes of a young student who has followed one of his arguments to a shocking conclusion. William embraces the danger - a decision that threatens to consume his entire family."

Samantha Harvey (Author), Gordon Griffin (Narrator)

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The Wilderness

"It's Jake's birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn't quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past, for Jake has Alzheimer's. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles to hold on to his personal story, to his memories and identity, but they are becoming increasingly elusive and unreliable. What happened to his daughter? Is she alive, or long dead? And why exactly is his son in prison? What went so wrong in his life? There was a cherry tree once, and a yellow dress, but what exactly do they mean? As Jake, assisted by 'poor Eleanor', a childhood friend with whom for some unfathomable reason he seems to be sleeping, fights the inevitable dying of the light, the key events of his life keep changing as he tries to grasp them, and what until recently seemed solid fact is melting into surreal dreams or nightmarish imaginings. Is there anything he'll be able to salvage from the wreckage? Beauty, perhaps? The memory of love? Or nothing at all? From the first sentence to the last, 'The Wilderness' holds us in its grip. This is writing of extraordinary power and beauty."

Samantha Harvey (Author), Sean Barrett (Narrator)

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