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[Croatian] - Sjećanje šume by Damir Karakaš

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604152 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604152] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Croatian] - Sjećanje šume Author: Damir Karakaš Narrator: Lana Zdravkovic Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 1, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Priča o odrastanju u, već prepoznatljivo Karakaševoj Lici, gdje nije lako biti drugačiji. Glavni junak romana je dječak kojeg pratimo kroz različite etape odrastanja, a dogodovštine iz njegovog života nam opisuju atmosferu jednog patrijarhalnog društva gde nema previše mjesta za emocije. Dječak je rođen s nekom srčanom manom koja mu pričinjava probleme. Njegovo je otac prototip autoritarnog muškarca ovih prostora, a sin će provesti djetinjstvo žudeći za bilo kakvom lijepom riječi ili priznanjem. Roman 'Sjećanje šume' dobitnik je Nagrade 'Kočićevo pero' te prve Nagrade Fric, koju za najbolju neprevedenu prozu protekle godine dodjeljuje tjednik Express.

[Russian] - Белая крепость by орхан памук

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603051 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/603051] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Russian] - Белая крепость Author: орхан памук Narrator: игорь тарадайкин Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 1, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Орхан Памук – известный турецкий писатель, обладатель многочисленных национальных и международных премий, в числе которых Нобелевская премия по литературе за «поиск души своего меланхолического города». Душа города всегда обретается в его прошлом, возможно, поэтому талант Памука так блестяще проявляется в исторических романах, таких как «Имя мне – Красный» и «Белая крепость». Сюжет «Белой крепости», действие которого происходит в 17 веке, одновременно прост и загадочен, подобно древней арабской миниатюре: главный герой, молодой итальянец, попадает в плен к туркам, где становится рабом странного человека, одержимого познанием вселенной. Однако наиболее волнующая тайна заключена в удивительном сходстве между итальянским пленником и турецким ученым, которые похожи друг на друга, как две капли воды.

The Porcelain Maker: 'An absorbing study of love and art' Sunday Times by Sarah Freethy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601006 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/601006] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Porcelain Maker: 'An absorbing study of love and art' Sunday Times Author: Sarah Freethy Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Release date: October 26, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Pre-order THE SEEKER OF LOST PAINTINGS, a sophisticated and thrilling historical page-turner about love and art, coming Summer 2025. ‘A page-turning journey to uncover a past of heroism, betrayal, love, and loss’ Heather Morris, bestselling author of Sisters under the Rising Sun 'So compelling' Sunday Times 'A gorgeous debut' Heat  Two lovers caught at the crossroads of history A daughter’s search for the truth   Germany, 1929. When Max, a Jewish architect, and Bettina, a beautiful and celebrated German avant-garde artist, meet at a party their attraction is instant. In love with each other and the art they create, their talent transports them to the dazzling lights of Berlin. But Germany is on the brink of terrible change, and their bright beginning is soon dimmed by the rising threat of Nazism.   When Max is arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp, it is only his talent at making the exquisite porcelain figures so beloved by the Nazis that stands between him and certain death. At first, Bettina has no idea where Max has been taken but when she learns of his fate, she is determined to rescue him whatever the cost. Now, a lifetime later, Bettina’s daughter, Clara, sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about her identity. As she weaves together the fabric of her past, she discovers the terrible secret her mother wanted hidden forever.   For fans of Heather Morris and Kristin Hannah, The Porcelain Maker is a sweeping, epic story of love, betrayal and art, set across Europe from the 1920s Weimar Republic, to dark and glittering 1930s Berlin.

The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets by Stefan Hertmans

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604328 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604328] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets Author: Stefan Hertmans Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 21 minutes Release date: August 29, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this revealing and poignant story, Stefan Hertmans uncovers haunting details about the previous owner of his house and the crime he committed as a member of the Nazi police. In 1979 Stefan Hertmans became obsessed with a rundown townhouse in Ghent. The previous owners were mentioned only in passing during the acquisition, and it wasn’t until the new millennium, long after he had sold the house, that he came across a memoir by the owner’s son Adriaan Verhulst, a distinguished history professor and a former teacher of Hertmans’, which revealed that his father was a former SS officer.       Hertmans finds he is profoundly haunted by images of the family as ghostly presences in the rooms he had once known so well, he begins a journey of discovery—not to tell the story of Adriaan’s father, but rather the story of the house and the people who lived in it and passed through it. Archives, interviews with relatives and personal documents help him imagine the world of this house as they reveal not only a marital drama, but also a connection between past visitors to the house and important figures in the culture and politics of Flanders now.       A stunning and immersive reimagining of a family in a historical moment of great upheaval confirms Hertmans’ always brilliant melding of fiction and nonfiction.

Retrospective: A Novel by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604236 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/604236] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Retrospective: A Novel Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez Narrator: Sheldon Romero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 27 minutes Release date: May 9, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions. The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives: especially his father's, his sister Marianella's and his own.  Growing up in Colombia as the children of famous actors, Sergio and Marianella were privileged and artistic, until their parents became disillusioned with bourgeois conventions and moved the entire family to China. Mao’s Cultural Revolution was underway and the family lived in an entirely ex-pat hotel where they learned Chinese and joined the revolution, became members of the Red Guard, and trained as guerilla fighters. When they returned to Colombia to support the revolution there, they were sent into the countryside to join the guerilla force, were shot at and nearly died. Out of these lives molded by ideology and zealotry, came an artistic second life for Sergio as he escaped the movement and became his country’s most celebrated film director. From the Spanish Civil War to the exile of his family to Latin America, and from the Cultural Revolution in China to the guerrilla movements of 1960s Colombia, Sergio and his family's experience is extraordinary by any standards. Equal parts family saga and epic historical novel, Retrospective reveals the story of one man and his family -- based on real people and events -- and a devastating portrait of the forces that shaped their lives, and for half a century turned the world upside down.