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Título: Los disparos del cazador [The Shots of the Hunter]

Autor: Rafael Chirbes

Narrador: Joan Mora

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 38 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-15-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Un hombre pasa los últimos días de su vida en la casa en la que nunca quiso vivir y que está, sin embargo, cargada de recuerdos. Desde ahí busca construir el rompecabezas de su pasado. Recuerda sus modestos inicios, su ascenso económico y social en el Madrid de la inmediata posguerra, sus amantes y amigos. En algún lugar del trayecto se le perdió el alma y se le desvaneció el amor.

Chirbes vuelve al espacio moral de sus anteriores novelas. Nos habla en un tono tenso de una generación que se reclama inocente, pero que se ha construido sobre los cimientos que pusieron las manos sucias de otros.

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Title: Pale Blue

Author: Thomas Meinecke

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The United States prides itself on being the worlds melting pot, but during a long, hot summer in coastal North Carolina, three young people will put that theory to the test. A German named Tillmann is vacationing in the States with his girlfriend and corresponding with an African American colleague about the evolution of blues music.

Over the course of the season, the trios discussions range from Mariah Carey to Ronald Reagan, from the Black Power movement to Nazi Germany. And as a hurricane churns across the Atlantic, their exploration of how ethnicity, race, and gender are defined particularly for Americas African and Jewish diasporas will culminate in revelations about their own ethnic identities.

Thomas Meineckes groundbreaking writing style is on full display in Pale Blue, as the writer-DJ has crafted his insightful novel with the same uncanny skill with which jazz and blues musicians create their improvisational styles.

Members Reviews:

Pale Blue: Color me confused...

Reading Thomas Meinecke's novelPale Bluewas more of an experience than reading a novel, and that's not necessarily a good thing. It's a subjective thing, but some literary experiences are enlightening; some are not.

It's difficult to even write a rational review much less a synopsis for this one, as the book itself isn't very coherent, at least for this reader. Three times I've discarded my notes for this title as I struggled my way to get through it, thinking that perhaps I had lost some brain cells along the way, trying to make sense of it. I lost in that respect, but did manage to make my way through the book.

We meet Tillman, said to be a German vacationing in the U.S. while on a work visa. There's Yolanda, a German expatriate who works at an organization in Chicago. We also have Cordula, a woman who's a diving instructor and student in Berlin, and who happens to have been born a Black German. Their conversations take place via their phone calls, supplemented by regular mail and email. By the end of the third page we find Tillman in a public phone booth facing a tropical storm headed for the coast of New Bern, NC.

But by that third page we've also read Tillman going off about his Korean transistor radio warning people to drop to the floor as the weather danger approaches, then shifts back to music by Mariah Carey, as he goes back to his work, copying a report about a Congolese man who was bound and gagged in an airliner as he resists deportation. During this he notices that his fingernails are too long, and then he drives to that phone booth to call Yolanda, leaving a message about an article that he found in an Israeli newspaper about the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest, a music group described as German Turkish (or vice versa), and asking her what color is Mariah Carey.

All of this takes place by the end of the third page, while a tropical storm is headed for the North Carolina coast. And on the fourth page we find our narrator reading that Queen Elizabeth has African ancestors, and there's a lengthy discourse on this topic. It ends with the narrator getting off of a Chicago bus and listening to Tillman's message asking about Mariah Carey's skin color.

Disjointed? Yes it is, and that's what we find as we go on, page after page, trying to figure out who is saying what to whom, and why. There are three narrators here, and it often takes that many times reading each paragraph to figure our what is going on here.

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Título: La buena letra [Good Point]

Autor: Rafael Chirbes

Narrador: Rosa Basurto

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 26 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 07-25-12

Editor: Audiomol

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Ana le cuenta a su hijo fragmentos de una vida de pequeñas miserias con las que se han tejido las relaciones personales y familiares. El autor renuncia a narrar los grandes acontecimientos históricos para poner su foco de atención en lo íntimo y cotidiano, en las vidas de unos personajes heridos por la traición y la deslealtad. La buena letra se convierte en deudora de la concepción balzaquiana según la cual la novela es la historia privada de las naciones y descubre los mecanismos que funcionan como silencioso motor de la historia, en cuyo devenir toda generación se levanta sobre las cenizas de otra y cada vez que el poder cambia de manos lo hace bajo el signo de la traición y de un sufrimiento que, siendo inútil, es también una forma descarnada de lucidez.

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Title: The Penelopiad

Author: Margaret Atwood

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-08-12

Publisher: Canongate Books

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband was off fighting the Trojan War was not a simple business. Already aggrieved that he had been lured away due to the shocking behaviour of her beautiful cousin Helen, Penelope must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours, and keep over 100 lustful, greedy, and bloodthirsty suitors at bay....

And then, when Odysseus finally returns and slaughters the murderous suitors, he brutally hangs Penelope's 12 beloved maids. What were his motives? And what was Penelope really up to?

Members Reviews:

Alright I suppose

I didn't really enjoy this one that much. A nice idea but never really developed into anything.

On the general quality of this audiobook however: awful. The woman's voice was irritating enough before they put the horrendous treatment on to turn her into the chorus. That was so uncomfortable to listen to, I tried to skip through whenever "they" were speaking!

Interesting concept, not enough depth

If you have read the Odyssey and know your mythology there's not a lot more here to engage a reader. The concept of telling the story from a different angle is interesting but could have been expanded more. I didn't really feel any emotion for Penelope, just absorbed her story. having said that, portraying the maids as a Chorus was very clever and the narration very good. Interesting listen.

Short but sweet exploration of Penelope

Any additional comments?

I thought this was a solid novella, which was both funny and moving. I felt a lot of unexpected sympathy for characters, and felt the narrator, as well as Atwood, really drew on Penelope's negative emotions well, in a way that didn't make her seem whinging or unlikeable.

Tongue and cheek feminist outlook of mythology

This is pretty hilarious. Once again, the master of feminist prose Margaret Atwood has created a modern day version of Penelope from the Greek mythology of Odysseus in which she is no longer alive. She's rather outspoken, feisty and sly attempting to live with her brutish husband while on Earth. At the same time, her hatred for Helen of Troy has seeped into her afterlife as well. I love the ending talking about liposuction and heels. A fun listen.

A retelling of a story that adds new facets.

This is very much a Tragicomedy that more than a novella wants to be a satirical feminist play. For those of us that enjoy the heroic retelling of this stories this will come at first like a cold shower or boiling hot one, but if you stay and continue reading you will see an unmasking of the romanticised cruelties required for our heroes to be so virile and disdainful of others lives and the bitterness that that injects into women's lives no matter what their social status.

The Penelope we encounter in these pages is honest but guarded with her honesty even now that she is just a spirit, she is also bitter and resentful of her times and what was imposed on her, she dislikes to this day Helen for making her life more difficult, but we see she can not escape her tender feeling for Odysseus though she knows him better than most, perhaps she forgives him because he returned. When she looks at our world she still sees it as dangerous and chooses not to reincarnate.

The twelve maids are a chorus that interrupts and interjects their views and represent women in the lower classes and slaves.

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Título: La Venganza del Silencio [The Revenge of Silence]

Autor: Alonso Cueto

Narrador: Luis Carlos de la Lombana

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 9 hrs and 30 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 04-20-12

Editor: Recorded Books

Calificaciones: 3 de 5 de 1 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Un hombre de la aristocracia de Lima aparece muerto en el medio de la calle, con un disparo en el corazón. Mientraslas conjeturas se van apilando a su alrededor, el narrador - sobrino de la víctima - decide investigar quién podría serel asesino. Entonces emergen los secretos en la vida de su tío muerto: su romance clandestino, su pasado oculto, susrelaciones verdaderas con los parientes. En esta búsqueda no solo aparecerá la verdad sobre el crimen sino, sobre todo los secretos lazos que han movido a los personajes de su familia.

La Venganza del Silencio es una historia policial ambientada en los pulidos salones y corredores de una gran casona, por donde corren los vientos del pasado familiar. La geografía interior de esta casa, sus superficies relucientes, aparece como un determinante de la conducta de sus miembros.

Con una magnífica prosa, y un extraordinario manejo de la intensidad, el ritmo y la atmósfera en la que habitan sus personajes, Alonso Cueto nos invita a explorar los misterios y complejidades de una familia de la alta sociedad de América Latina. Además, nos sorprende y conmueve con su capacidad para retratar las fisuras de la condición humana, y demuestra que la familia es la última gran religión de nuestro tiempo.

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Title: Fathers and Sons

Subtitle: CliffsNotes

Author: Denis M. Calandra (editor)

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-12

Publisher: CliffsNotes on Brilliance Audio

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The CliffsNotes study guide on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Fathers and Sons. Reading a literary work doesnt mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more.

For further information on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com.

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Members Reviews:

Fathers and Sons (Cliff Notes)

Good review for the Russian novel. Will aid students in looking at Russian social and political life in the late 19th century to 20th century. Good to use for designing quiz questions.

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Title: Mystique

Subtitle: A Story from Suddenly, a Knock on the Door

Author: Etgar Keret

Narrator: Willem Dafoe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-12

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A story from Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, read by Willem Dafoe. Overflowing with absurdity, humor, sadness, and compassion, the tales in Suddenly, a Knock on the Door establish Etgar Keretdeclared a "genius" by The New York Timesas one of the most original writers of his generation.

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Title: The Trouble with Bliss

Author: Douglas Light

Narrator: John Pruden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-11-12

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

At age 35, Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia. Enter Stefani, an 18-year-old girl in a Catholic school uniform, and Morris's once static life quickly unravels when Stefani's father calls on Morris to work for him. Morris's life becomes further entangled when his best friend, N.J., is recruited by an international cartel that controls global economics and local sex markets, and Morris is called in to save N.J.'s bacon. But most importantly, Morris's father, a taciturn widower, finally reveals the truth surrounding the strange death of Morris's mother. With the agony of his inertia finally broken, Morris Bliss fights to keep his life from careening out of control. He must learn to adapt if he is to survive.

Critic Reviews:

"This fun read boasts a likable protagonist, other quirky and interesting characters, and vivid and humorous descriptions of New York while also providing some significant social commentary." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

If you like Douglas Light's fellow Hoosier Kurt Vonnegut I think you ...

If you like Douglas Light's fellow Hoosier Kurt Vonnegut I think you will like the Trouble with Bliss. It is wacky but philosophical, puzzling but fun, sexy and shocking.--Joel

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Title: Obedience

Author: Jacqueline Yallop

Narrator: Christine Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-31-12

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The thought of him was irresistible, a mystery. It made her feel beautiful. And, while it lasted, it gave her a glimpse of paradise.

A once bustling convent in the south of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced for the first time to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, one of those nuns, Sister Bernard, struggles to reconcile her uncertain faith with the passionate, impulsive actions of her youth.

The young Sister Bernard is slow-witted, dreamy, and tormented by the voice of a judgemental God. Only when one of the young Nazi soldiers starts showing her attention is she given a reprieve from Gods voice. Soon she is meeting him in secret and breaking her vow of chastity with disturbing ease. Illicit love leads her into a far worse betrayal, one she fully understands only when it is too late, and a horror that endures in the memories of the villagers in the decades that follow.

With an elegant, devastatingly effective style, this story of one womans forbidden love, uncertain faith, and guilt-ridden past is told in alternating vignettes, bridging her imminent, present-day reckoning with the complex emotions behind her misdeeds of the past.

Critic Reviews:

An intense and powerful story.... Wartime stories and nuns tales are common enough but Obedience manages to be something different. [It] is a tightly written study of betrayal, faith, loneliness and desire. The coolness and restraint of her prose seems ideally suited to the storys setting and its themes. (New Zealand Herald)

An intensely imagined novel... thought-provoking. (Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prizewinning author of Wolf Hall)

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Title: Eunuch Park

Subtitle: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction

Author: Palash Krishna Mehrotra

Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Palash Krishna Mehrotra writes about prostitutes, cross dressers, murderers, drug addicts, students, and stalkers, portraying their perversions and vulnerabilities with equal insight, taking us deep into the dark and seamy soul of India.

Set in the murky underbelly of big cities and small towns, slums and dotcoms, college hostels and rented rooms, Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction is a collection like no other. Gritty, grim, and depraved, these are candid vignettes of an India most of us are afraid to acknowledge.