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Titel: Von Männern, die keine Frauen haben

Autor:: Haruki Murakami

Erzähler: Frank Arnold

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 7 hrs and 18 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 10-22-14

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 2 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

"Eines Tages seid ihr plötzlich Männer, die keine Frauen haben. Dieser Tag kommt ganz unerwartet, ohne die leiseste Vorankündigung, ohne jeden Hinweis, ohne Vorgefühl, ohne Ahnung, ohne Klopfen und ohne Räuspern. Wenn ihr um die Ecke biegt, wisst ihr bereits, was dort ist. Aber ihr könnt nicht mehr umkehren. Seid ihr einmal um die Ecke gebogen, wird das eure einzige Welt. Auf dieser Welt nennt man euch "Männer, die keine Frauen haben". In einem unendlich kalten Plural. Nur Männer, die keine Frauen haben, können verstehen, wie herzzerreißend, wie furchtbar traurig es ist, Männer zu sein, die keine Frauen haben. Den wunderbaren Westwind zu verlieren."

Sieben neue Erzählungen versammelt das Hörbuch, die wohl zum Zartesten und Anrührendsten zählen, das je von ihm zu hören war. Und doch sind sie typisch Murakami, denn fast immer geht es darin um versehrte, einsame Männer. Männer, denen etwas Entscheidendes fehlt...

©2014 DuMont Buchverlag, Köln. Übersetzung: Ursula Gräfe (P)2014 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Title: The Human Body

Author: Paolo Giordano, Anne Milano Appel (translator)

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-02-14

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

From the best-selling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of war and the journey from youth into manhood.

In Paolo Giordano's highly awaited new novel, a platoon of young men and one woman soldier leaves Italy for one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Forward Operating Base (FOB) in the Gulistan district of Afghanistan is nothing but an exposed sandpit - scorched by inescapable sunlight and deadly mortar fire.

Each member in the platoon manages the toxic mix of boredom and fear that is life at the FOB in his own way. Brash Cederna shamelessly picks on the virgin Ietri. Giulia Zampieri seemingly navigates this male-dominated world with ease - until two male comrades start vying for her attention. And for medical officer Alessandro Egitto, the FOB serves as an escape from a real life even more dangerous than one fought with guns. At night, lying on their beds, they feel the beat of their own hearts, the ceaseless activity of the human body. But when a much-debated mission goes devastatingly awry, the soldiers find their lives changed in an instant.

A heartrending, redemptive story about brotherhood and family, modern war and the wars we wage with ourselves, Paolo Giordano's visceral novel reminds us what it is to be human.

Members Reviews:

Struggling for connection in uncertain times

Right before the prologue, Paolo Giordano provides a helpful list of characters from the seventh alpine regiment and the third platoon. He needn't have taken the trouble. The characters in The Human Body are so intricately rendered that each of them is impossible to forget.

There's medical officer Egirto who has willfully exchanged the war zone at home for the war zone overseas. Marshal and troup leader Antonio Rene, a male prostitute who has just learned that he is to become a father. Corporate Marshal Roberto Ietri, a wet-behind-the-ears 20 year old virgin, for whom everything is new and interesting. Senior corporal Major Francesco Caderna, a brusque bully who singles out one unfortunate soldier for his cruel pranks. And there's First Corporal Major Angelo Torsu, who falls seriously ill after food poisoning and spends his spare time online, trying to connect to a virtual "sweetheart."

These are just some of the characters that populate The Human Body, and if they sound one-dimensional or stereotypical, that is far from the truth. Each is fleshed out with subtle brushstrokes and yet given his (or in a few cases, her) own individuality.

For readers looking for a "war book", with details of battle and wins and losses, they won't find it here. Although the background is Afghanistan, there is very little action depicted. As readers, we know from the prologue that there will be one ill-fated mission and that some will live and some will die. But even that engagement is narrated from the internal lives of the characters more than the action outside.

Ultimately, we begin to care greatly about these imperfect characters, placed in a heinous pattern of waiting, and the struggles they embody: what they've left behind, what they're experiencing, and what they are destined to endure.

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Titel: Die Achse meiner Welt

Autor:: Dani Atkins

Erzähler: Ann Vielhaben

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-25-14

Herausgeber: Audible Studios

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Rachel hat alles, was sie sich immer erträumte: Einen gutaussehenden Freund, einen großen Freundeskreis und in wenigen Wochen wird sie ihr Traumstudium beginnen. Doch dann geschieht dieser schreckliche Unfall, der ihr alles nimmt, was sie liebt.

Als Rachel Jahre später nach einem schweren, nächtlichen Sturz im Krankenhaus erwacht, ist ihr Leben plötzlich wieder so, wie sie es sich immer erhofft hat. Von den Auswirkungen der Tragödie keine Spur. Und der Mann, den sie damals verlor, ist immer noch am Leben.

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©2014 Droemersche Verlagsanstalt. Übersetzung von Dr. Birgit Moosmüller (P)2014 Audible GmbH

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Titel: Kruso

Autor:: Lutz Seiler

Erzähler: Franz Dinda

Format: Abridged

Spieldauer: 10 hrs and 56 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 09-01-14

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 1 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Als das Unglück geschieht, flieht Edgar Bendler nach Hiddensee, jener Insel, die schon außerhalb der Zeit und "jenseits der Nachrichten" liegt. Als Abwäscher in der Kneipe "Klaußner" lernt Ed Kruso kennen. Von Kruso wird Ed eingeweiht in die Rituale der Saisonarbeiter und die Gesetze ihrer Nächte, in denen Ed seine sexuelle Initiation erlebt. Geheimer Motor dieser Gemeinschaft ist Krusos Utopie, die verspricht, jeden Schiffbrüchigen des Landes (und des Lebens) in drei Nächten zu den "Wurzeln der Freiheit" zu führen. Doch der Herbst '89 erschüttert die Insel. Am Ende steht ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod - und ein Versprechen.

©2014 Suhrkamp Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin (P)2014 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

Mitglieder Bewertungen:

A wasted effort

Book arrived in the German language; of no use to me. Both a waste of time and money.

Five Stars

fine

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Titel: Geschenkt

Autor:: Daniel Glattauer

Erzähler: Heikko Deutschmann

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-25-14

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Bewertung: 4 von 5 von 1 Stimmen

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Gerold Plassek ist Journalist bei einer Gratiszeitung. Bei ihm im Büro sitzt der 14-jährige Manuel, dessen Mutter im Ausland arbeitet. Er beobachtet Gerold beim Nichtstun und ahnt nicht, dass dieser Versager sein Vater ist. Gerold fehlt jeder Antrieb, die Stammkneipe ist sein Wohnzimmer und der Alkohol sein verlässlichster Freund. Plötzlich kommt Bewegung in sein Leben: Nach dem Erscheinen seines Artikels über eine überfüllte Obdachlosenschlafstätte trifft dort eine anonyme Geldspende ein. Das ist der Beginn einer Serie von Wohltaten, durch die Gerold immer mehr in den Blickpunkt der Öffentlichkeit rückt. Und langsam beginnt auch Manuel, ihn zu mögen.

Ein so spannender wie anrührender Roman, der auf einer wahren Begebenheit beruht.

©2014 Deuticke im Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Wien (P)2014 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Titel: Die Würde ist antastbar

Autor:: Ferdinand von Schirach

Erzähler: Ferdinand von Schirach

Format: Unabridged

Spieldauer: 2 hrs and 53 mins

Sprache: Deutsch

Veröffentlichungsdatum: 08-11-14

Herausgeber: HörbucHHamburg HHV GmbH

Kategorien: Fiction, Literary

Zusammenfassung des Herausgebers:

Wiegt ein Leben ein anderes auf? Was macht einen Täter zum Täter? Der Schriftsteller und Jurist Ferdinand von Schirach beschäftigt sich in seinen glänzenden Essays mit den großen ethischen Themen unserer Zeit ebenso wie mit ganz persönlichen Gedanken über die Literatur oder das Rauchen.

©2014 Piper Verlag GmbH, München (P)2014 Hörbuch Hamburg HHV GmbH, Hamburg

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Title: High as the Horses' Bridles

Author: Scott Cheshire

Narrator: Adam Grupper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Josiah is a child preacher, called to speak to an amphitheater of thousands in 1980s New York. In a style reminiscent of DeLillo, Cheshire takes us inside their apocalypse-obsessed world, setting the tone for events to come. Fast forward several years, and Josiah (or Josie) has broken with the community that bound him, only to have the new life he built collapse. When his ex-wife Sarah calls to say his father sounds strange - even unhinged - Josie must return home. Back in Queens, the old sights and sounds of the neighborhood and the memories - of his childhood friend Issy, his first love, the mother he has yet to mourn - overcome him. When he arrives at his father' s door, he' s completely unprepared for what he finds. How far back must one man journey to heal a sacred bond between father and son? In a surprising twist, we learn that it may be further than even Josie himself. In rhapsodic language steeped in the tradition of evangelism, Scott Cheshire has created a novel that is remarkable in scale and energized by the power and danger of belief. High as the Horses' Bridles is the debut of an extraordinary new talent.

Members Reviews:

Captivating and Compelling

Stunning, bold and beautiful. This may be Cheshireâs first novel, but from the first page it is clear to readers that they are in the gentle hands of a master craftsman. The story of reluctant child prophet Josiah Laudermilk oscillates throughout time, dipping and spinning through present, past and history, creating a multi-layered portrait of the American religious experience. The narrative focuses on Josiahâs return to his ailing, mentally unstable father and their complicated relationship, but also explores haunting questions: what does it mean to believe? To embrace doubt? To love and be loved in return? To what extend are we shaped by those that came before us? High as the Horses' Bridles is thought provoking without straying from the essential elements of a near perfectly crafted story. Well-done!

The end of the world is near but who knows when?

A worthy first novel probing the mind and heart of a bizarre quasi-evangelical subculture. Cheshire hints at why Christian apocalypticism is a continuing tendency, appealing to some religious seekers who feel alienated from society.

He has given insightful interviews on his study of premillennial theological thinking (See 7/6/14: Electric Lit). He cites Wm. James' view that while the religious agree with the universe, the non-religious agree to it. End-time believers seem to have created their own universe.

Perplexing

The beginning of this book was great. Loved the detail and imagery. However it quickly became just a series of accounts. The ending was strange and seemed out of place. I didn't see the real plot. I really wanted to like this but became quickly bored. The very best part was the writer does an excellent job of describing details.

Are you a butter person?

This is a novel about a child evangelist/prophet from Queens, N.Y., who grows up to be an owner of a failing chain of computer stores in Southern California, has a Jewish ex-wife, still smokes cigarettes in 2005, while his widowed father continues to study the Old Testament while falling into dementia. The critics tell us this is a novel about love, among other things; I wouldn't know, I thought Barbara Cartland's books are about love.

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Title: Cherry Red Summer

Author: Carina Bartsch, Erik J. Macki (translator)

Narrator: Amy McFadden

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-14

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

No girl ever forgets her first love.

No one knows that better than Emely Winter. It's been seven years since she last saw the man with the turquoise eyes, Elyas Schwarz - the embodiment of everything mothers warn their daughters about.

Good-looking, charming, and with a hint of arrogance, Elyas is back in Emely's life and driving her crazy. She hates him from the bottom of her heart, but, even so, she can't deny her growing attraction. Thinking it's high time to put on the brakes, Emely turns her attention to Luca, the intriguing new man she's only ever met online. With two men pulling her in different directions, Emely must decide which of them is showing her his true self. After all the work she's done to learn to trust again, will Emely's efforts be for nothing?

Members Reviews:

Nice romantic story, not hard core, and you will have to read on to book 2.

This is the story of young love developing. The characters have known each other over a long time. I have been listening via an audible version which in my opinion is very well narrated. Friendship and confused feelings with life seem to abound for the main characters. I'm waiting to see what happens. Not sure I like the premise of a person saying they like someone and e-mailing them then that reeks of stalker in real life... creepy. Perhaps that is the most confusing part of the story line for me. The sexual content is not graphic but suggestive of what is going on in the story. I enjoyed this story but it is not real deep nor does it have a strong beginning to end. I am hoping book two ties up the things that I have read in this book.

Found it repetitive. Characters never grew. Simply written ...

Found it repetitive. Characters never grew. Simply written. Only finished reading it because I thought it surely has to improve. Won't be reading any more by Carina Bartsch.

Five Stars

Very fun reading bood. Lots of memories bringing back of my school/ college years. Loved it.

Five Stars

Loved it. Cannot wait for book 2.

Happily Pleased!!!

PLEASE tell me when the next book comes out! I absolutely loved this book! I haven't laughed so much while reading a book in a long time. The banter between Elyas and Emely just tickled my soul. I love them. Amazing!

Then I get to the cliffhanger end and there was no mention of another book. I want to cry right now. PLEASE tell me it's coming soon!!!! Is there another one???

One thing that I don't get...The title doesn't match the book. That usually bugs me ALOT, but I didn't mind it this time...Well, maybe a little. Still enjoyed it in spite of my pet peeve.

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Title: Watch How We Walk

Author: Jennifer Lovegrove

Narrator: Morgan Hallett, Erin Moon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Alternating between a woman's childhood in a small town and as an adult in the city, this novel traces a Jehovah Witness family's splintering belief system, their isolation, and the erosion of their relationships.

As Emily becomes closer to her closeted Uncle Tyler, she begins to challenge her upbringing. Her questions about the Jehovah's Witnesses' insular lifestyle, rigid codes of conduct, and tenets of their faith haunt her older sister Lenora too. When Lenora disappears, everything changes and Emily becomes obsessed with taking on her sister's identity, believing that Lenora is controlling her actions. Ultimately, Emily finds release through self-mutilation.

The narrative offers a haunting, cutting exploration of the Jehovah's Witness practice and practical impact of "disfellowshipping," proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well as their attitude toward the "worldlings" outside of their faith. Sparse, vivid, menacingly suspenseful, and darkly humorous, Watch How We Walk simultaneously engages on emotional, visceral, and intellectual levels.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Beautifully written. Emotionally spellbinding. Just kept reading until I was done.

Witty, funny and informative

The author is full of wit and experience when it comes to growing up in a mind control cult (the Jehovah's Witnesses).

She uses humor and wit to describe the experiences she went through.

A very informative and entertaining book

Review of Watch How We Walk

My interest in this stems from my fascination with the Jehovah's Witness religion. I have only general knowledge of their beliefs which is pretty ironic considering half of my family members are devout Witnesses, while the other half are Bible-toting Christian zeliks. Watch How We Walk by Jennifer LoveGrove is the jarring story of Emily Morrow, presented in alternating views of her younger self and as an adult, dealing with the divisive rules of the Jehovah's Witness religion.

Emily and her sister are raised in a strict home and are encouraged not to fraternize with "worldly" people. They are forbidden to read materials deemed worldly, practice holidays, celebrate birthdays, amongst other nos. To top it off, if any of the things they caught doing something immoral, they will be disfellowshipped. For a young Emily, this all seems understandable since it is all she knows. Her older sister, Lenora, as a teenager is finding "The Truth" to be a big bunch of lies. Emily struggles with what to do as she sees her sister begin to disassociate herself with the religion.

Jennifer LoveGrove writes an emotional rollercoaster with Watch How We Walk where a family struggles with their religion, and honoring the rules to that religion. Emily wants to be a funambulist when she's older which seems very fitting given that she's always seems to be walking the line with her religion and coming into her own. The young Emily wants to nothing more than to be a full-time Pioneer, spreading the Truth to all who have not heard. But she also wants to be accepted. Her older self (which is told in first-person narrative) suggests she wants out. She wants to be as liberated as her sister, Lenora. Emily does not want to live in constant fear of the last days, or being disfellowshipped.

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Title: We're Flying

Subtitle: Stories

Author: Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (translator)

Narrator: Andy Caploe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Following the publication of the widely acclaimed novel Seven Years, comes a trove of stories from the Swiss master Peter Stamm. They all possess the traits that have built Stamm's reputation: The directness of the prose, the deceptive surface simplicity of the narratives, and deep psychological insight into the existential dilemmas of contemporary life. Stamm does not waste a word, nor does he spare the listener's feelings. These stories are a superb introduction to his work and a gift for all those who have come to regard his fiction as a precise rendering of the contemporary human psyche.

Members Reviews:

Very interesting. Buy with confidence!

Very interesting. Buy with confidence!

Unusual short stories

Some very interesting and unusual stories, some that feel almost unfinished but hauntingly beautiful. Worth checking out. Definitely, I mean it.

Switzerland is not only about cuckoo clocks.

This bundle of short stories presents the lives of ordinary persons in a humane manner. The diversity of subject matter is astounding. I am a Stamm convert.

Innocence and Experience

Swiss author Peter Stamm has made a career of psychologically evocative books in which very little actually happens. And so it is with this marvelous collection of understated stories. Just look at the first four. In "Expectations," a woman of uncertain age begins a relationship with the younger man upstairs, but it doesn't turn out as she had expected. In "A Foreign Body," a speleologist meets a couple who challenge him to take them into an unexplored cave, but he refuses. In "Three Sisters," a young woman goes by train to study art in Vienna, but gets off at the first stop. In "The Hurt," a young man attempts to continue his relationship with his first girlfriend, but she rejects him.

A book of non-events, you might think, but the point is not in the refusals or missed connections, but how they function as a window into the inner lives of the characters. The cave explorer, for instance, comes to a realization about himself that might have been more painful or even deadly if discovered under different circumstances. The climax of the boy's story with the standoffish girl proves a decisive moment in illuminating both her past and his future. In the title story, "We're Flying," a kindergarten teacher takes a child home with her when nobody appears to pick him up. The mother eventually comes, but the experience makes her reappraise her relationship with her boyfriend. What is interesting is how Stamm's develops the situation, having us first view the boyfriend in one light, then in a different one, then in a different one again, all in a few pages.

These stories were originally published in 2008. But this edition adds a second collection, also beautifully translated by Michael Hofmann, dating from 2011 and called THE RIDGE. There is a distinct change of tone: you might almost call these his Songs of Experience to the earlier Songs of Innocence. There is a stronger sense of place, a more powerful foreboding, and an occasional turn towards the surreal; also rather more tends to happen, though still not much.