The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Summer by Edith Wharton

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212765 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/212765] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Summer Author: Edith Wharton Narrator: Lyssa Browne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: February 5, 2016 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Summer, set in New England, is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, eighteen year-old, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child. Only moderately well received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s.

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223384 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223384] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Strange Library Author: Haruki Murakami Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 2 minutes Release date: December 2, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library.   Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written. Designed by Chip Kidd and fully illustrated, in full color, throughout, this small format, 96 page volume is a treat for book lovers of all ages.

Quartet for the End of Time by Johanna Skibsrud

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223480 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/223480] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Quartet for the End of Time Author: Johanna Skibsrud Narrator: Tandy Cronyn Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 34 minutes Release date: November 28, 2014 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Inspired by and structured around the chamber piece of the same title by the French composer Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time is a mesmerizing story of four lives irrevocably linked in a single act of betrayal. The novel takes us on an unforgettable journey beginning during the 1930s Bonus Army riots, when World War I veteran Arthur Sinclair is falsely accused of conspiracy and then disappears. His absence will haunt his son, Douglas, as well as Alden and Sutton Kelly, the children of a powerful U.S. congressman, as they experience each in different ways the dynamic political social changes that took place leading up to and during World War II. From the New Deal projects through which Douglas, newly fatherless, makes his living to Sutton s work as a journalist, to Alden s life as a code breaker and a spy, each character is haunted by the past and is searching for love, hope, and redemption in a world torn apart by chaos and war. Through the lives of these characters, as well as those of their lovers, friends, and enemies, the novel transports us from the Siberian Expedition of World War I to the underground world of a Soviet spy in the 1920s and 1930s, to the occultist circle of P. D. Ouspensky and London during the Blitz, to the German prison camp where Messiaen originally composed and performed his famous Quartet for the End of Time. At every turn, this rich and ambitious novel tells some of the less well-known stories of twentieth-century history with epic scope and astonishing power, revealing at every turn the ways in which history and memory tend to follow us, and in which absence has a palpable presence.

Three Daughters: A Novel by Consuelo Saah Baehr

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221334 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221334] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Daughters: A Novel Author: Consuelo Saah Baehr Narrator: Karen Peakes Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 25, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From the fertile hills of a tiny village near Jerusalem to the elegant townhouses of Georgetown, Three Daughters is a historical saga that chronicles the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of Palestinian Christian women. Born in rural Palestine, just before the dawn of the twentieth century, Miriam adores her father and is certain his love will protect her, but she soon finds that tradition overrides love. Uprooted by war, Miriam enters a world where the old constraints slip away with thrilling and disastrous results. Miriam’s rebellious daughter, Nadia, is thrilled with the opportunity for a modern life that her elite education provides. But when she falls in love with an outsider, the clan reins her back with a shocking finality. Nijmeh, Nadia's daughter, is an only child and the path her father, the sheik, sets for her is fraught with difficulties, yet it prepares her for her ultimate journey to America, where she finds her future. Each woman, in her own time and in her own way, experiences a world in transition through war and social change...and each must stretch the bounds of her loyalty, her courage, and her heart. Revised edition: Previously published as Daughters, this edition of Three Daughters includes editorial revisions.

One Two by Eliane Brum

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221339 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/221339] to listen full audiobooks. Title: One Two Author: Eliane Brum Narrator: Joyce Bean Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 18, 2014 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Like so many mothers and daughters, Maria Lúcia and Laura have a complex relationship, one steeped in abandonment and trauma. Laura tries to tear herself away from her mother’s body through language, because every daughter requires more than one birth. The clash between these two women is tied to words; the pages are their particular battlefield. As they each set out to write their versions of the story, the reader discovers that there are few divisions between their narratives, no distinctions between hate and affection. Subtle differences that distinguish the mother from the daughter can be found in the writing, but they are barely noticeable. Their acts of violence and raw emotional outbursts are mirrored; their truth is irreversibly shared. As mother and daughter, they are given life by virtue of death. By shattering the profound silence of their shared distress, they discover the ties that irrevocably bind them. One Two is a dramatic and gut-wrenching blurring of reality and fiction. Critically acclaimed upon its release in Brazil, the novel was shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature and the São Paulo Prize for Literature.