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Titel: Fantasia

Autor:: Assia Djebar

Erzähler: Birgitta Assheuer

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 12-19-13

Herausgeber: SWR Edition

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Diese Frauen", so Assia Djebar, "machen keine Literatur aus ihrem Leben; je mehr sie während des Krieges erlitten haben, um so verhaltener sprechen sie. Ich habe ihrem ungeschminkten Bericht zugehört und wollte das neunzehnte Jahrhundert für sie übersetzen, meine Stimme mit der ihren vermischen." Dies wird uns erzählt von der großartigen Stimme der TV- und Hörfunk-Sprecherin Birgitta Assheuer.

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Title: Two Boys and a Girl

Author: Tobias Wolff

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Gilbert saw Mary Ann first, but the second time he sees her she is dancing with his best friend, Rafe. The three of them begin hanging out all the time, driving around in the car Rafe got as a present for getting into Yale. But when Rafe goes out of town, Gilbert and Mary Ann keep the tradition going, seeing movies and going on drives...in Rafe's car no less. Gilbert thinks he and Mary Ann are perfect together, even the way they fit next to one another when they dance, but falling in love with your best friend's girlfriend is a sure way to break someone's heart.

Members Reviews:

It was ok...

I didn't like the characters much. The cheesy potatoes smell great porn

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Title: Firelight

Author: Tobias Wolff

Narrator: Anthony Heald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-13

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A mother and her son dream of a life beyond their means in this classic short story by Tobias Wolff.

"Firelight" tells the story of a mother and her son who are spending the afternoon viewing apartments on a chilly day in Seattle, Washington. The two have no intention of renting one - they can only afford to live in a meager boarding house. Nevertheless, they spend every Saturday wandering through apartments and department stores, dreaming of a different life.

On this particular afternoon, their last stop is a beautiful Victorian home - far beyond anything they could ever afford. And for the first time, wishful thoughts blur with harsh reality as the son becomes entranced by the apartment and the life it represents.

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Title: Politics

Author: Adam Thirlwell

Narrator: John Banks

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The sharp, funny, entirely original and explosive debut novel by Adam Thirlwell twice named one of the Best Young British Novelists by Granta magazine.

In case you had not noticed, writes Adam Thirlwell in his first novel, Politics,, in this book I am not interested in anything so small as the history of the USSR. I am not writing anything so limited.

In this epic miniature, therefore, Politics tells the story of three kids in their twenties falling in love with each other in London. And, simultaneously, it tells other, smaller stories: of Stalin on the phone, Mao in the bathroom, Osip Mandelstam in another bathroom, Adolf Hitler on all fours, and Milan Kundera in an argument. Politics, is not (quite) about politics.

Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978. He is the author of Politics, The Escape, Miss Herbert and Kapow. He was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. He lives in London.

Critic Reviews:

"Extremely accomplished...very sophisticated" (A S Byatt, Guardian)

"One of the funniest, most stylish and utterly original debuts in years" (The Times)

"This is a clever book. Fantastically clever...funny and strangely insightful... A genuinely original book" (Daily Mail)

"Dazzling...clever, funny and original" (India Knight, Observer)

"Allusive, barbed, cocky, flamboyant, reckless, obscene and very funny" (Time Out)

Members Reviews:

Mildly disappointing

I was hoping for a more intelligent and sensuous description of a menage a trois. But it was mostly just

embedded rantings about life.

A Mirror to the Reader's own insecurities

Adam Thirlwell's book is a novel different from almost anything out there. It gives much more credence to the insecurity and the uncomfortable attributes of any sexual relationship. The readers can laugh at Moshe's foibles (although the humor and comic digressions do begin to wear thin as the book drags on) but share in his insecurities about love.

Moshe, Nana, and Anjali's story is not unlike a story that happens to everyone at one time or another. Many people can identify what it is like to be in love (in at least one of the many connotations of the word) with two people at once. But Thirlwell's development of the consequences is somewhat lacking at tidiness. He serves quite appropriately at an uber-omniscient narrator, but his story's resolution is a little...predictable. As much as I enjoyed identifying with Moshe's crisis in the book, Nana's resolution to the crisis is somewhat unfulfilling. Perhaps, however, therein lies the point of the book. The most real stories sometimes have the least coherent endings. Perhaps a little more character development and plot would make the stories end more satisfying.

A Boy and Two Girls

Adam Thirlwell got named one of the top young novelists of England by Granta, a magazine which is always wrong. And he hadn't even written POLITICS yet at the time he got the nod.

Well here it is now, in a high-profile type of dust jacket that is cut off halfway down the jacket, to make it stand out from the other novels on the table at Barnes and Noble, and I bet it does very well.

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Title: The Time of Women

Author: Elena Chizhova

Narrator: Raz Mason

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-13

Publisher: Glagoslav Publication

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-20th century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get a room in a communal apartment that she and her little girl share with three old women. Glikeria is the daughter of former serfs. Ariadna comes from a wealthy family and speaks French. Yevdokia is illiterate and bitter. All have lost their families, all are deeply traditional, and all become grannies to little Suzanna.

Only they secretly name her Sofia. And just as secretly they impart to her the history of her country as they experienced it: The Revolution, the early days of the Soviet Union, the blockade and starvation of World War II. The little girl responds by drawing beautiful pictures, but she is mute. If the authorities find out she will be taken from her home and sent to an institution. When Antonina falls desperately ill, the grannies are faced with the reality of losing the little girl they love - unless a stepfather can be found before it is too late. And for that, they need a miracle.

Members Reviews:

A true gem

This is a gem of a book. It is incredibly moving and terribly sad allowing us a glimpse behind the Iron Curtain with flashbacks to pre revolution, the war, starvation, sacrifice, the new order. All this intertwined with fantasy, traditional religious beliefs and superstitions, icons, saints and ghosts, and a little girl who is mute and can only express herself through drawing. The women who surround her are old grannies who have all suffered terrible losses. and yet devote all their energy and meager means to raise her and protect her and her unwed mother. It is beautifully written and is well worth reading.

Interesting historically

This book is interesting for its perspective on the lives of three old women, one younger mother of an illegitimate child, and the child herself as they struggle to support themselves financially and emotionally. The story bounces between fiction and fantasy/imagination, and that's usually just not my favorite type of story. I did find the perspective on Communism, the Czars and the Revolution interesting, since I've spent some time in Russia. The book is translated, which may have some influence on the way the story unfolds/perspectives.

Delicate overlooked jewell of a story!

Beautifully written and wonderfully translated.

This book offeres clear insight into the situation and psyche of the midcentury Soviet woman.

A specific story with universal appeal.

20th Century Russian History Through Women's Eyes

The history of Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century was more brutal, more costly, more inspirational and more redemptive than that of any other country. Yet rarely has this history been seen through the eyes of women - those who bore the children who died in the Blockade or the War, those who were left behind (sometimes) when husbands and sons were sent to camps, those who worked alongside men all day, then went home to work another shift before the stove and sink. In this Booker winning novel, Chizhova offers a slice of that history through the revealing private narratives of a few representative women whose lives are focused on the girl who will take the women's stories into a future they will not see.

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Title: Hamilton Stark

Author: Russell Banks

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-13

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years.

Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England.

Members Reviews:

Banks Tries the Reader's Patience

Russell Banks has been a revelation to me in the books I have read - Continental Drift, Trailer Park and The Reserve - but he really tests the reader's tolerance level with this pretentious piece.

It is the kind of book I would never normally touch - as novel about a novelist writing a novel - but I gave Banks the benefit of the doubt.

It seemed a good decision at first and we were quickly in familiar Banks' territory of trailer park failures who can't fit into American society and blaze their own eccentric trails.

The main characters - Stark and his daughter - are well drawn and the backdrop is authentic but, unfortunately, Banks decided to abandon straightforward narrative for a lazy take it or leave style that left this reader bewildered.

Events are seen from different angles and viewpoints and it is difficult to follow.

This approach can be rewarding, depending on the writer's skill, but Banks just treats us readers as bystanders and thinks we should sit back and accept working sketches, notes and "addendums" as the real thing.

One chapter consists of 100 notes about the main character. Another is a monologue by one of Stark's wives moaning about his faults. There are even scrawled "handwritten" notes.

Much of it is good. Most of it is not. It is certainly not a novel. Read it at your peril.

An unforgettable American character; reads smoothly

I found "Hamilton Stark" to be an unexpected page-turner. Hamilton Stark, the fictional man, is an unforgettable creation. The novel, eschewing conventional plotting, clips along fluidly and swiftly nonetheless. Experimental fiction is rarely this readable (certainly Banks' "Family Life," and "Relation of My Imprisonment" are not).

The daily-life-variety exploits of New Hampshire pipe fitter Hamilton Stark are a guilty pleasure to follow. As the man's habits and life history unfold, one wonders, with great eagerness, what absurdity of will and character will be exhibited next.

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Title: O My Darling

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Amity Gaige

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-05-13

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events - some comic, some harrowing - is set in motion, revealing the fault lines of the couple's marriage and individual psyches.

Amity Gaige is a consummate stylist. Her every sentence contains a tiny world - marrying striking images to deep, soulful ideas in perfectly concise fashion.

Members Reviews:

A Haunting Good Read

This book was recommended on The Huff Post on a blog about horror fiction. Strangely, it is a horror book, but not in the usual sense. I enjoyed reading this book and it completely held my attention. I'm not sure I was totally satisfied with the ending, but maybe all good books leave you with questions at the end.

Great Read!

Excellent novel that's well-written and easy to read while placing you right in the middle of the characters. I had the pleasure of taking an online course with Ms. Gaige and learned about her novels in the process.

Four Stars

Human relations and psychological problems are well taken care of; however, not as magnificent as Schroder. IRMA DICKINSON

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Title: A Golden Age

Author: Tahmima Anam

Narrator: Tania Rodrigues

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-30-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.

Critic Reviews:

"A real page-turner, with a bravura, heart-stopping ending" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Deftly balances the story of nation against that of family...heart-shattering" (Kamila Shamsie, Guardian)

"Anam has done a service to her country.... No other writer has treated the subject with such clarity before" (Times Literary Supplement)

Members Reviews:

Fascinating and enjoyable

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It introduced me to a section of history that I knew very little about and it was fascinating and informative. The characters were beautifully drawn and I really cared about what would happen to them. Excellent narration.

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Titel: Der Nazi und der Friseur

Autor:: Edgar Hilsenrath

Erzähler: Bodo Primus

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 11 hrs and 29 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-12-13

Herausgeber: Random House Audio, Deutschland

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Schwärzester Slapstick, unterhaltsam, poetisch, deftig in der Sprache und spannend wie ein Krimi. Deutscher Hörbuchpreis 2005 für Edgar Hilsenrath.

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Titel: Nullzeit

Autor:: Juli Zeh

Erzähler: Johann von Bülow, Frederike Kempter, Jörg Hartmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 56 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 07-30-13

Herausgeber: Der Audio Verlag

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Der Bestseller von Juli Zeh - jetzt auch als hochwertige Hörspielproduktion mit Starbesetzung.

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

A great suspense thriller by an excellent German author!

Recommended for anyone looking for a German writer with a great style and the plotting ability of Patricia Highsmith. It's also out in English in May 2014. A love triangle that goes horribly wrong, and the reader has to decide who's telling the truth. Set on the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Gripping!