Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Narrativa literaria

Rebeca, una chica arrogante que lo tiene todo, vivirá días inexistentes en el calendario de los humanos. En estos días aprenderá mucho de sí misma y de su compañero Olaf, un anciano sabio, que compró en una subasta de artículos valiosos y antigüedades. A bordo de una bicicleta de dos plazas, juntos viajarán a lugares, tiempos y dimensiones muy especiales, como una bodega abandonada, donde ella es humillada; una escuela, donde se transforma en niña; el cielo, donde visita a su padre; y un hospital, donde se convierte en madre.

When Adeline Bertrand-Verdon, the haughty, conniving president of the Proust Association, is murdered, Inspector Jean-Pierre Foucheroux is called on to lead the investigation. Soon Inspector Foucheroux is overwhelmed by a seemingly endless list of suspects: from her assistant to her colleagues, her fiancé to her lover, almost everyone Adeline knew had motive to kill her.

In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg breaker, assassin, and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel "cuts" water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet while the poor get nothing but dust.

In this "ingenious" novel ( New York Times) by "one of Europe's most original and remarkable writers" ( Los Angeles Times), a proofreader's deliberate slip opens the door to romance-and confounds the facts of Portugal's past.

Nata in una regione marina, orfana di padre, Eiko vive con la madre e la nonna, che gestiscono un ristorante. Finito il liceo, la giovane decide di trasferirsi a Tokyo dove trova lavoro come cameriera in un ristorante indonesiano, l'Arcobaleno. Alla morte di madre e nonna, si ritrova completamente sola. Per vincere il dolore della perdita, Eiko si concentra sul lavoro e si impegna così tanto che un giorno, addirittura, sviene per la stanchezza.

Un dialogo serrato e scintillante di ironia fra una scrittrice rompiscatole di oggi e Celsius, abitante del futuro. Un'antiutopia tagliente che prende l'avvio da un evento storico lontano nel tempo, o forse appena avvenuto: l'eruzione del Vesuvio nel 79 d.C., e la conseguente distruzione di Pompei.

A vida de Luna está uma bagunça! O namorado a traiu com a vizinha, seu carro passa mais tempo na oficina do que na rua, e seu chefe vive trocando seu nome. Recém-formada em jornalismo, ela trabalha como recepcionista na renomada Fatos&Furos. Porém, em tempos de Internet, a revista vem enfrentando problemas e o quadro de jornalistas acaba diminuindo drasticamente. É assim que ela se torna responsável pela coluna do horóscopo semanal. Embora não tenha a menor ideia de como fazer um mapa astral, e não acredite em nenhum tipo de esoterismo, Luna aceita o desafio sem pestanejar.

In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands - Russia. Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture and her peoples - bleak yet exotic, brutal but romantic, land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears.

Camerun, Regione del Nord: tre donne, tre matrimoni, un unico destino. Ramla ha diciassette anni ed è costretta dal padre a lasciare gli studi e a sposare un uomo di cinquanta. Crede che sua cugina Hindou sia più fortunata di lei, perché il suo promesso sposo Moubarak di anni ne ha solo ventidue, e non è brutto, tutt’altro. Ma sbaglia, perché Hindou sa bene di che pasta è fatto suo cugino e qualsiasi sorte sarebbe per lei meglio che essere data in sposa a lui. Safira, trentacinque anni, per ventidue è stata la prima e unica moglie di Alhadji Issa, l'uomo più importante della città.

¿Qué sabemos realmente sobre nuestros padres? La novela más admirada y traducida de Pedro Mairal. Juan Salvatierra, pintor mudo, humilde y autodidacta, deja a sus hijos un misterioso cuadro en herencia: un inmenso mural que ocupa casi cuatro kilómetros de rollos de tela y que pintó en secreto hasta el día de su muerte. Al descubrir que falta una parte de la obra, su hijo Miguel se irá adentrando en los enigmas del pasado del artista en una peripecia que, de Argentina a Uruguay, lo llevará a reconstruir la verdadera historia de su familia y a replantearse su propia vida.

Un árabe abandona en un circo de pueblo a un niño junto a dos antiguos libros: Las mil y una noches. Cuando la trapecista del circo se lesiona, decide memorizar las historias para contarlas al público. Así le dará vida a Sherezade y al rey Shariyar hasta el punto de confundir, ella y el niño abandonado, sus roles dentro del mundo de la verdad y de la ilusión. Esta novela fue reconocida en 2017 con el X Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Elena Poniatowska.

Fiodor, rampollo nullafacente di una ricca famiglia, ha un incidente di macchina a Santa Barbara, California. Suo padre, che si è ritirato in Costa Rica e alleva per hobby uccelli rari, lo spedisce a lavorare in una delle filiali dell'azienda di famiglia, a Milano. Qui Fiodor incontra Malaidina, una ragazza affascinante e misteriosa, e se ne innamora follemente. Sullo sfondo, il clima conflittuale e pericoloso dell'Italia degli anni '70.

When young orphan, Oliver Twist, is sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker, he leaves behind years of miserable servitude and mistreatment at an English workhouse. Hoping to move on to better things, he decides to escape his new, equally dreary surroundings and head to London. It is there that the novel unravels as Oliver meets a host of larger-than-life characters, including The Artful Dodger, a high-ranking member of a juvenile pickpocketing gang, and their elderly leader, Fagin.

In a world increasingly connected to computers and machines but disconnected to self and others, Dr. Michele Stewart finds herself drowning in a life that no longer holds meaning. Searching for a deeper connection after losing her partner, Alice, she enters a contemplative monastery, living a life dedicated to prayer, to faith in things unseen.

In the 99th district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive.

When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows that it is time to leave. As he travels towards Lagos, he becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a better life. Their arrival in the city coincides with the eruption of a political scandal. The education minister, Chief Sandayo, has disappeared and is suspected of stealing millions of dollars from government funds.

The Spider King's Daughter is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet set against the backdrop of a changing Lagos, a city torn between tradition and modernity, corruption and truth, love and family loyalty. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. She lives in a sprawling mansion in Lagos, protected by armed guards and ferried everywhere in a huge black jeep. But being her father's favourite comes with uncomfortable duties, and she is often lonely behind the high walls.

Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.

In the secluded Dutch territory of Sleepy Hollow, nebbish schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with the town hero for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the 18-year-old daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel's farm one autumn evening, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, an apparition said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper snuffed out by a stray cannonball.

A vida mais invisível de Maria das Dores promove uma empregada doméstica a protagonista de uma saga familiar que atravessa quase um século de história brasileira. Maria das Dores viveu uma existência “invisível”, lutando de maneira obstinada para vencer na vida e criar seus três filhos.