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"Brought to you by Penguin. A breath-taking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient. Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of the murder campaigns sweeping the island. When Anil discovers that the bones found in an ancient burial site are in fact those of a much more recent victim, her search for the terrible truth hidden in her homeland begins. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity - a story driven by a riveting mystery. 'There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph' Guardian ©2011 Michael Ondaatje (P)2023 Penguin Audio"
Michael Ondaatje (Author), Nimmi Harasgama (Narrator)
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"Brought to you by Penguin. From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships In each of the twelve stories in After the Funeral, small events have huge consequences. Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Two estranged sisters cross paths at a posh hotel and pretend not to recognize each other. Janie's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janie's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes. As psychologically astute as they are emotionally dense, these stories illuminate the enduring conflicts between responsibility and freedom, power and desire, convention and subversion, reality and dreams. A vital addition to Tessa Hadley's celebrated body of work, After the Funeral bears out Claire Messud's observation that 'Like Alice Munro, to whom she has more than once been compared, Hadley has the gift of making small canvases inexhaustibly new.... Compassionate and luminous, Hadley sees them all - or should I say, she sees us all: our travails, our fantasies and our small joys.' ©2023 Tessa Hadley (P)2023 Penguin Audio"
Tessa Hadley (Author), Abigail Thaw (Narrator)
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"'Absolutely stunning . . . thrilling and unique' - Gillian Flynn 'Creepy, provocative and wildly entertaining' - Emma Stonex 'A banger!' - Chelsea G Summers 'Fantastic . . . compelling . . . wonderful' - The Observer Welcome to The Centre. You'll never be the same . . . Anisa Ellahi spends her days writing subtitles for Bollywood films in her London flat, all the while longing to be a translator of 'great works of literature'. Her boyfriend Adam's extraordinary aptitude for languages only makes her feel worse, but when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam tells Anisa about the Centre, an elite, invite-only programme that guarantees total fluency in any language in just ten days. Sceptical but intrigued, Anisa enrols. Stripped of her belongings and contact with the outside world, she undergoes the Centre's strange and rigorous processes. But as she enmeshes herself further within the organization, seduced by all that it's made possible, she soon realizes the disturbing, hidden cost of its services. By turns dark, funny and surreal, The Centre takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London and New Delhi, interrogating the sticky politics of language, translation and appropriation with biting specificity, and ultimately asking: what price would you be willing to pay for success? A remarkable debut from Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, announcing the arrival of an extraordinary new talent."
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (Author), Balvinder Sopal (Narrator)
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"‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETT Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature. Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told… His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father’s jokes and victim of his brothers’ indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony."
Andrew Barrow (Author), John Sackville (Narrator)
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"Brought to you by Penguin. The story about a marriage in crisis that you will not be able to put down A beautiful, unforgettable story of love and second chances, for fans of The Paper Palace, Hello Beautiful and Tom Lake. Winter, upstate New York. Outside the Half Moon bar, a blizzard is raging. Inside, bartender Malcolm and his wife Jess are coming face to face for the first time in four months. Malcolm never understood why Jess packed up and left him suddenly, without explanation. Meanwhile, Jess always loved Malcolm, but when forced to choose between her husband’s dreams and her desire to have a family, she found herself slipping away. Now, trapped in the empty bar as the snow piles up outside, they must confront the secrets and small betrayals that brought their marriage to this point. ‘A fearless writer’ Lisa Taddeo ‘Compelling, touching, exquisitely crafted . . . I adored this story’ Liane Moriarty ©2023 Mary Beth Keane (P)2023 Penguin Audio"
Mary Beth Keane (Author), Norbert Leo Butz, Rebecca Lowman (Narrator)
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"The best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range war threatens his closest friend, he must shake off his own losses and act swiftly to discover the truth and stay alive. "A good story that's intertwined like leaves afloat in a river with the current of Heller's descriptive powers… Filled with Heller's lush writing… Powerful." -Denver Post Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving clueless tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp through the park with cameras, and the residents of hardscrabble Cooke City who want to carve out a meaningful living. When Ren, hiking through the backcountry on his day off, encounters a tall man with a dog and a gun chasing a small black bear up a hill, his hackles are raised. But what begins as an investigation into the background of a local poacher soon opens into something far murkier: A shattered windshield, a series of red ribbons tied to traps, the discovery of a frightening conspiracy, and a story of heroism gone awry. Populated by a cast of extraordinary characters-famous scientists, tattooed bartenders, wildlife guides in slick Airstreams-and bursting with unexpected humor and grace, Peter Heller masterfully unveils a portrait of the American west where our very human impulses-for greed, love, family, and community-play out amidst the stunning beauty of the natural world."
Peter Heller (Author), Mark Deakins (Narrator)
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"A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. She is a writer, and she realizes that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. An obsession is born. She takes an extended leave, not for child-rearing, but to write. To research and write about the hidden truth behind the crime. Mothers don't write. Mothers give life. How could a woman be capable of neglecting her children? How could she kill them? Is motherhood a prison? Complete with elements of a traditional thriller, this a groundbreaking novel in which the chronicle and the essay converge. Katixa Agirre reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity, in dialogue with writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing. Mothers Don't plumbs the depths of childhood and the lack of protection children face before the law. The result is a disturbing, original novel in which the author does not offer answers, but plants contradictions and discoveries."
Katixa Agirre (Author), Stacy Gonzalez (Narrator)
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"Perfect for fans of the hit TV series The Last of Us and novels like Camp Zero, this riveting novel set in a postapocalyptic America brings us a chilling look at survival in the face of a catastrophic climate disaster and the collapse of civilization as we know it. The rain began nineteen years ago, and it never stopped: more than a foot of rain per day until almost the whole of North America was underwater. Those who survived the first year were forced to take drastic measures, and those who held to the veneer of civilization were few and very far between. Seventeen-year-old Tanner grew up after the rain began. She and her adoptive caretaker, Russell, have long sought a fabled Colorado refuge, a dream that has kept them going through years of brutal trials as they try to stay one step ahead of the “face eaters”—people addicted to a mysterious drug that drives them to murder and cannibalism. When the rain began, Rook Wallace was a meteorologist who joined a company called Yasper that, years after its emergency funding dried up, continues its stated mission to help survivors by maintaining a trade network among isolated island communities. But when Rook learns the insidious truth of what keeps the Yasper mission going, he is forced to risk everything that remains of his former life to try to stop it. As Tanner’s and Rook’s stories converge in time and geography, readers will be thrilled by this postapocalyptic tale for fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box."
Joseph A. Turkot (Author), Charlie Thurston, Lily Ganser (Narrator)
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"Finalista Premio Nadal 2004. Frederic Traum es un personaje de pasado nebuloso que, en Beirut, encuentra en la calle a un hombre 'in articulo mortis', Alberto Delgado, funcionario de la embajada española, con el que hace un insólito pacto: intercambiarán sus personalidades -lo que borraría el oscuro historial de Traum- con la condición de matar a Ana, una mujer que vive en Barcelona, de la que el moribundo desea vengarse. Con el amparo de su nueva personalidad, el falsario protagonista inicia su nueva vida en España tejiendo diferentes ardides para conseguir sus planes, entre los que se incluye el cumplimiento de su parte del trato con Delgado, para lo que Traum llega a inventar un nuevo personaje que cierra el círculo de este caleidoscópico juego de apariencias en el que nada es lo que parece, en el que el bien y el mal son complementarios y en el que incluso la vileza tiene su propio código de honor."
Javier Puebla (Author), Juan Miguel Díez (Narrator)
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[Spanish] - La isla del árbol perdido: El nuevo libro de la aclamada autora de «La bastarda de Estam
"La nueva novela de la finalista del Premio Booker, con más de 300.000 lectores: «Preciosa y desgarradora» (Margaret Atwood) «Maravillosa». Mary Beard * «Una voz única en la literatura mundial». Ian McEwan * «Un libro que te transforma». Naomi Klein * «Shafak crea con sus palabras un nuevo hogar para los lectores». Colum McCann NOMINADA AL WOMEN'S PRIZE Y AL ONDAATJE PRIZE FINALISTA DE LOS PREMIOS COSTA BOOK SELECCIONADA EN EL CLUB DE LECTURA DE REESE WITHERSPOON En un convulso 1974, mientras el ejército turco ocupa el norte de Chipre, Kostas, un griego cristiano, y Defne, una turca musulmana, se reúnen en secreto bajo las vigas ennegrecidas de la taberna La Higuera Feliz, donde cuelgan ristras de ajos, cebollas y pimientos. Allí, lejos del fragor de la guerra, crece a través de una cavidad en el techo una higuera, testigo del amor de los dos jóvenes, pero también de sus desencuentros, de la destrucción de Nicosia y de la trágica separación de los amantes. Décadas más tarde, en el norte de Londres, Ada Kazantzakis acaba de perder a su madre. A sus dieciséis años, nunca ha visitado la isla en la que nacieron sus padres y está desesperada por desenredar años de secretos, división y silencio. La única conexión que tiene con la tierra de sus antepasados es un Ficus carica que crece en el jardín de su casa. La isla del árbol perdido es una historia llena de magia sobre la pertenencia y la identidad, el amor y el dolor, y la asombrosa capacidad de regeneración a través de la memoria. La crítica ha dicho: «Un libro exuberante, un libro que huele, que sabe y que suena con los olores, sabores y sonidos de una naturaleza». Berna González Harbour, El País (Portada de Babelia) «Voz comprometida, voz perseguida, voz firme e inspiradora. Elif Shafak es, en una palabra, Europa». Felip Vivanco, Magazine (La Vanguardia) «Se bebe de un trago (aunque uno lento, que disfrutas en toda su longitud)». Silvia Nieto, El Mundo «Haciendo gala de un generoso despliegue de geografía novelística, Shafak explora -a través del diálogo entre dos historias concomitantes- las huellas de un exilio no-sufrido, de un exilio dado por nacimiento, al tiempo que se adentra en las peculiaridades identitarias y culturales de los pueblos griego y turco en un territorio mezclado por la colisión entre ambos: Chipre». Zenda «Shafak vuelve a mostrar sus dotes como constructora de novelas entretenidas que se mueven entre Oriente y Occidente y donde los sentimientos tienen un peso importante. Las páginas del libro están llenas de platos de la cocina griega y turca. Se perciben sus olores, las maneras de nombrar las cosas, las plantas y los pájaros del lugar, sus cielos». Mey Zamora, La Vanguardia «Una historia conmovedora, bellamente escrita y delicadamente construida. Shafak sigue la tradición de emocionarnos y contarnos un hecho relevante que ya inició en 10 minutos y 38 segundos en este extraño mundo». Rosa Martí, El Confidencial «Un hermoso alegato en favor de la naturaleza —que siempre sufre por las guerras de los hombres— y de un amor que no conoce barreras culturales ni de género, que trasciende el tiempo y queda para siempre grabado en la memoria de los árboles.» Alicia Medina, Zenda «En cada página dialogan guerra y poesía para formar una historia insólita, espejo de todo lo que indigna a Elif Shafak». Elle «Shafak es una fuerza de la naturaleza que atesora reconocimientos y centenares de miles de lectores». Daniel Arjona, El Confidencial"
Elif Shafak (Author), Elsa Veiga (Narrator)
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"Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and hope. Until one sunny day in 1968, when Swede's daughter, Merry, commits an outlandishly savage act of political terrorism and the Levov family is plunged into mayhem. Extraordinarily nuanced and poignant, American Pastoral is the first in an eloquent trilogy of post-war American novels that still resonates today. PRAISE FOR AMERICAN PASTORAL: 'Angry, grieving, witty, acute' Sunday Times 'A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last fifty years' Financial Times 'A momentous novel' Observer ©2016 Philip Roth (P)2023 Penguin Audio"
Philip Roth (Author), Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator)
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"Brought to you by Penguin. From the outside, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated. Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares for every encounter they have, always taking care to make her actions seem effortless. She watches him attentively, charting every mistake and punishing him accordingly to help him improve. And she tests him - setting traps to make sure that he still loves her just as much as he did when they first met. Until one day she realizes she may have gone too far . . . With the surprise of Gone Girl, the bleakness of The Talented Mr Ripley and the sinister charm of the Netflix thriller You, My Husband is a bold and exhilarating story of passion and the dark secrets that lie beneath a seemingly healthy marriage. 'One of the most daring, provocative, unnervingly intimate thrillers I've read in years. Few writers besides Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith can evoke domestic unease with such sangfroid; fewer still can make it such delirious fun' A. J. Finn, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Woman in the Window ©2023 Maud Ventura (P)2023 Penguin Audio"
Maud Ventura (Author), Kiiri Sandy (Narrator)
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