The Age of Goodbyes by Li Zi Shu

The Whispers: A Novel by Ashley Audrain

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634645 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634645] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Whispers: A Novel Author: Ashley Audrain Narrator: Jill Winternitz Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: June 6, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered. . . . [The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”—The New York Times Book Review “[An] electrifying . . . razor-sharp page-turner.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighbor­hood couples and their children gather for a barbecue as the summer winds down. Everything is fabulous until Whitney, the picture-perfect hostess, explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack—loud and clear. Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. And then his mother can only sit by her son’s hospital bed, where his life hangs in the balance. Over the course of a tense three days, the women of the neighborhood grapple with what led to that terrible night. People-pleasing Blair, Whitney’s best friend, suspects something isn’t as it seems. Rebecca, the ER doctor who helps treat Whit­ney’s son, has struggled to have a child of her own. And the all-knowing Mara, the older woman next door, watches everyone’s world unravel from her front porch. Exploring envy, women’s friendships, desire, and the intuitions that we silence, The Whispers is a chilling novel that marks Ashley Audrain as a major fiction talent.

The Paper Man by Billy O'Callaghan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634635 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/634635] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Paper Man Author: Billy O'Callaghan Narrator: Helen Lloyd, Gerard Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 20 minutes Release date: May 4, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 1980s Cork. Jack Shine is sorting through his mother's belongings when he discovers a shoe box full of love letters and newspaper clippings. Jack's mother, Rebekah, was a young woman when the Second World War broke out, and she came to Cork alone as a Jewish refugee from Vienna. She died when Jack was young, and he never learned of his father's identity. So, who wrote these love letters to Rebekah and why did she keep newspaper clippings about a famous Austrian footballer player? Who was 'The Paper Man'? As Jack begins to uncover the story of his mother's life, he is transported to 1930s Vienna, a bustling, cosmopolitan city on the brink of war. At the heart of the action is Matthias Sindelar, one of the most famous footballers in the world, known to all as 'The Paper Man' because of his effortless weave across the pitch. When Sindelar unexpectedly meets Rebekah, a young woman from a small town, both of their lives are changed forever. But as war looms, they must accept that their survival will tear them apart. Based on real people and true events, The Paper Man is the story of twentieth-century Europe, the Holocaust, the cost of fame, and love against the odds. It is a story that will take Jack far from Cork and all the way back to Vienna, and towards The Paper Man. ©2023 Billy O'Callaghan (P)2023 Penguin Audio

The Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636179 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636179] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Pachinko Parlor Author: Elisa Shua Dusapin Narrator: Hannah Choi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: February 14, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women's calves, men's shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long. It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents': daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since. When they first arrived in Japan, they opened Shiny, a pachinko parlor. Shiny is still open, drawing people in with its bright, flashing lights and promises of good fortune. And as Mieko and Claire gradually bond, a tender relationship growing, Mieko's determination to visit the pachinko parlor builds. The Pachinko Parlor is a nuanced and beguiling exploration of identity and otherness, unspoken histories, and the loneliness you can feel among family. Crisp and enigmatic, Shua Dusapin's writing glows with intelligence.

[Spanish] - Humo by José Ovejero

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636045 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636045] to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Humo Author: José Ovejero Narrator: Marta Rodríguez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 1 minute Release date: January 19, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Una mujer, un niño y una gata conviven en una cabaña en pleno bosque, calladamente la mayor parte del tiempo, pues el niño apenas habla. No tienen contacto con nadie, excepto por las visitas de un hombre que les trae provisiones de vez en cuando. No son familia, pero juntos salen adelante. Fuera, la naturaleza se está volviendo impredecible: el paisaje deslumbrante que rodea a los protagonistas adquiere a veces matices siniestros. Ellos subsisten con lo que obtienen de un huerto que cada vez da menos frutos, y con lo que consiguen del bosque inmediato. A lo lejos, en las ciudades, parece que también hay extrañas turbulencias, cuya amenaza se proyecta sobre la cabaña. José Ovejero nos presenta a estos personajes solitarios, sin alma de héroes, y nos hace reflexionar sobre el sentido de la vida, los lazos que nos unen a las personas de nuestro entorno y la capacidad de sobrevivir en situaciones adversas.

The Age of Goodbyes by Li Zi Shu

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636172 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/636172] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Age of Goodbyes Author: Li Zi Shu Narrator: Catherine Ho Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 49 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: By one of Southeast Asia's most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling. In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster. In a parallel narrative, a critic known only as The Fourth Person explores the work of a writer also named Du Li An. And a third storyline is in the second person; 'you' are reading a novel titled The Age of Goodbyes. Floundering in the wake of 'your' mother's death, 'you' are trying to unpack the secrets surrounding 'your' lineage. The Age of Goodbyes is the acclaimed debut by Li Zi Shu. The winner of multiple awards and a Taiwanese bestseller, this dazzling novel is a profound exploration of what happens to personal memory when official accounts of history distort and render it taboo.