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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/534162 to listen full audiobooks.Title: On Gods and Demons: A Thousand Li Short StorySeries: #3 of A Thousand Li Short StoriesAuthor: Tao WongNarrator: Travis BaldreeFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 0 hours 17 minutesRelease date: July 19, 2024Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: What Do Gods & Demons Have in Common? Perhaps nothing, perhaps a lot. A glimpse into a world where an immortal and a demon partake in meal while plotting moves that will shake the middle kingdom and share gossip of other, more contentious issues. This is a 3,000 word short story set in the A Thousand Li universe featuring as yet to be seen characters in the universe. Does not need to be read to follow the main series.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/528357 to listen full audiobooks.Title: First Steps into the Night: A Vampire LitRPG Short StoryAuthor: Tao WongNarrator: Stephanie NĂ©meth-ParkerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 6 minutesRelease date: July 19, 2024Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Step Carefully For The Night Is Dark Kylie Porter needs a break. Novacore VR's Eternal Night is it - the VR vampire game that her editor wants her to write about. But she's not a gamer, so she's going to have to learn to fake it for her article. With a little help. Johnathan Masters is that help. An old friend who is doing her a favour, he's a lot more confident and good looking in the game, even if they've both touched themselves up. But she's a professional and this is just a game. None of it's really real? Is it? First Steps into the Night is a Vampire LitRPG Short Story (approximately 10k long) written by Tao Wong, the author of the System Apocalypse, Hidden Wishes and A Thousand Li series. It is not a fade-to-black story, set in a VR vampire MMORPG.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535121 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Questing for Titles: A System Apocalypse Short StorySeries: #5 of The System Apocalypse Short storiesAuthor: Tao WongNarrator: Aven ShoreFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 0 hours 42 minutesRelease date: April 23, 2024Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Whatâs in a Title? That which the System gives by any other Title might not smell as sweet. In the System Apocalypse, a single Title can make or break a build. And in the entire Galactic System, there are Title Seekers, those who make it their life quest to acquire the most unusual and rare Titles possible. Earth, a new Dungeon World offers multiple possibilities. Not least among them, the one from a familiar set of golden arches. For the Kyaz, itâs a chance in a million to get a rare Title. If he can manage to evade the machinations of a fellow Title Seeker and trust his human sidekick, Xi Ping.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529403 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Adventures in Clothing: A System Apocalypse Short StorySeries: #4 of The System Apocalypse Short storiesAuthor: Tao WongNarrator: Stephanie DillardFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 0 hours 50 minutesRelease date: April 23, 2024Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Some quests require ass-kicking; others require clothing designers. The System Apocalypse has brought the clothing industry, and just about everything else, to a grinding halt. Now Lana Pearson intends to kickstart the local industry into gear to help Vancouver self-sustain itself. Key to her strategy are special teams of non-combat Classes. Meg, Hanna, Cassidy and Obrav are Cosplayers, Tailors, Models and more. Not your usual team combination at all. But itâs not your usual Quest theyâve been given. If theyâre going to meet Lanaâs needs, theyâre going to have to think outside the sewing pattern. Adventures in Clothing is a short story by Tao Wong, set in the bestselling post-apocalyptic universe the System Apocalypse.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533249 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land: StoriesAuthor: Omer FriedlanderNarrator: Gilli Messer, Assaf CohenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 15 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: From âa marvelous new voiceâ (Rebecca Makkai), these âextraordinarily imaginativeâ (Sigrid Nunez), ârevelatoryâ (Nicole Krauss), âsuperbâ (Kiran Desai) stories transcend borders as they render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. WINNER OF THE AJL JEWISH FICTION AWARD âą FINALIST FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land announces the arrival of a natural-born storyteller of immense talent. Warm, poignant, delightfully whimsical, Omer Friedlanderâs gorgeously immersive and imaginative stories take you to the narrow limestone alleyways of Jerusalem, the desolate beauty of the Negev Desert, and the sprawling orange groves of Jaffa, with characters that spring to vivid life. A divorced con artist and his daughter sell empty bottles of âholy airâ to credulous tourists; a Lebanese Scheherazade enchants three young soldiers in a bombed-out Beirut radio station; a boy daringly ârooftopsâ at night, climbing steel cranes in scuffed sneakers even as he reimagines the bravery of a Polish-Jewish dancer during the Holocaust; an Israeli volunteer at a West Bank checkpoint mourns the death of her son, a soldier killed in Gaza. These stories render the intimate lives of people striving for connection. They are fairy tales turned on their head by the stakes of real life, where moments of fragile intimacy mix with comedy and notes of the absurd. Told in prose of astonishing vividness that also demonstrates remarkable control and restraint, they have a universal appeal to the heart.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533226 to listen full audiobooks.Title: People from BloomingtonAuthor: Budi DarmaNarrator: Emiko Susilo, Reynaldo Piniella, Langston Darby, Eric Sharp, Nathan Agin, Tiffany Tsao, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Sunil Malhotra, Mark BramhallFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 28 minutesRelease date: April 12, 2022Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Winner of the 2023 PEN Translation Prize Winner of the 2023 NSW Premierâs Translation Prize An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesiaâs most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha A Penguin Classic In these seven stories of People from Bloomington, our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, Indiana, where the author lived as a graduate student in the 1970s, this is far from the idyllic portrait of small-town America. Rather, sectioned into apartment units and rented rooms, and gridded by long empty streets and distances traversable only by car, itâs a place where the solitary can all too easily remain solitary; where people can at once be obsessively curious about others, yet fail to form genuine connections with anyone. The characters feel their loneliness acutely and yet deliberately estrange others. Budi Darma paints a realist world portrayed through an absurdist frame, morbid and funny at the same time. For decades, Budi Darma has influenced and inspired many writers, artists, filmmakers, and readers in Indonesia, yet his stories transcend time and place. With The People from Bloomington, Budi Darma draws us to a universality recognized by readers around the worldâthe cruelty of life and the difficulties that people face in relating to one another while negotiating their own identities. The stories are not about âstrangenessâ in the sense of culture, race, and nationality. Instead, they are a statement about how everyone, regardless of nationality or race, is strange, and subject to the same tortures, suspicions, yearnings, and peculiarities of the mind.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533250 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Out There: StoriesAuthor: Kate FolkNarrator: Hannah Choi, Renata Friedman, Sophie Amoss, Michael Crouch, Will Damron, Kristen SiehFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 13 minutesRelease date: March 29, 2022Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, â[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirrorâ (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). âStories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.ââKelly Link, author of Get In Trouble FINALIST FOR THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD âą ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Review of Books, Kirkus Reviews With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folkâs debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earthâs remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by âblots,â preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531777 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Life Without Children: StoriesAuthor: Roddy DoyleNarrator: Roddy DoyleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 53 minutesRelease date: February 22, 2022Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: â[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . youâre left feeling close to dazzled.â âDaphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prizeâwinning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his motherâs funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyleâs signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535340 to listen full audiobooks.Title: I'm Not Hungry But I Could EatAuthor: Christopher GonzalezNarrator: Anthony Medina, Christian Barillas, Tony ChiroldesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 2 hours 48 minutesRelease date: December 1, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt these stories. A college grad reunites with a high-school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy-hour french fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit for the sake of friendship. Exploring the lives of bisexual and gay Puerto Rican men, these fifteen stories show a vulnerable, intimate world of yearning and desire. The stars of these narratives linger between living their truest selves and remaining in the wings, embarking on a journey of self-discovery to satisfy their hunger for companionship and belonging.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531027 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Wind's Twelve Quarters: StoriesAuthor: Ursula K. Le GuinNarrator: Will Watt, Amy Landon, Grover GardnerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 10 minutesRelease date: October 26, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her lyrical writing, rich characters, and diverse worlds. The Wind's Twelve Quarters collects seventeen powerful stories, each with an introduction by the author, ranging from fantasy to intriguing scientific concepts, from medieval settings to the future. Including an insightful foreword by Le Guin, describing her experience, her inspirations, and her approach to writing, this stunning collection explores human values, relationships, and survival, and showcases the myriad talents of one of the most provocative writers of our time.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529951 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Portuguese] - A vida por um fio: contos de mistĂ©rioAuthor: SĂ©rgio AbranchesNarrator: Sidney FerreiraFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 43 minutesRelease date: October 18, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: EnigmĂĄtico, fantĂĄstico, surreal⊠Uma misteriosa e inesperada herança de grande porte... Um futuro distĂłpico em que apagĂ”es sĂŁo constantes... Um delĂrio dentro de um delĂrio dentro de um delĂrio... Estes sĂŁo alguns dos temas presentes em A vida por um fio, de SĂ©rgio Abranches, uma seleção inĂ©dita de contos que surpreendem e fascinam aos fĂŁs de literatura de mistĂ©rio e tambĂ©m ao pĂșblico em busca de ficção de alta qualidade. Ao longo de dez contos somos conduzidos por personagens cujos pensamentos, sentimentos, açÔes e intuiçÔes sĂŁo os fios que tecem narrativas cheias de vigor e refinamento. Com sutileza e versatilidade, SĂ©rgio Abranches explora os motivos obscuros do comportamento humano, fazendo com que a cada histĂłria nos embrenhemos pelos corredores sem fim da psique. Transitando entre o mistĂ©rio e a distopia, o folclore e a ficção cientĂfica, o fantĂĄstico e o onĂrico, a coletĂąnea A vida por um fio Ă©, para usar as palavras do autor, uma busca do 'ponto longĂnquo onde a realidade se encontra com a imaginação'. Uma obra que promete marcar presença na literatura de mistĂ©rio e suspense, A vida por um fio Ă© agora lançada em primeira mĂŁo em audiolivro pela editora Pop Stories.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526704 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Life at Absolute Zero: The complete BBC Radio series 1-4Author: Lynne TrussNarrator: Lynne TrussFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 5 hours 49 minutesRelease date: October 14, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: 26 short stories about the eccentric inhabitants of Meridian Cliffs, a small, wind-battered town on England's South Coast 'Very few writers read their own work well on the radio, but Truss is an exception. Her voice and timing suit the material perfectly' The Lady Welcome to Meridian Cliffs. Located at exactly 0 degrees 0 minutes west, and 0 degrees 0 minutes east, it's where the Greenwich Meridian meets the Channel, and time stands poised at absolute zero. But due to ever-increasing coastal erosion, it's getting smaller every day... The residents of this curious town are easy to identify from their habit of shouting to be heard against the wind even when they're indoors. There's Sarah Birkett, granddaughter of the town's founder, who longs for a small improvement to her life; retired driving instructor Terry and his rescue dog Thelonius (the team mascot of Meridian Cliffs FC); carpet supremo Hugh Velvey, whose business and life are destroyed by arson and murder; and Ravi, whose curry house is the scene of a dramatic confession - and some unsettling news. All are harbouring secrets, desires and dreams, and over the course of four series, we hear about their thwarted ambitions, hidden passions and forlorn hopes - and eavesdrop on a few typically sticky British moments. Beautifully observed, gently comic and often moving, these sublime short stories are written and read by Lynne Truss. Production credits Written and read by Lynne Truss Directed by Kate McAll A Pier production for BBC Radio 4 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, May 2016-April 2019 Series 1 There's No Need to Shout Free Parking Gimme Shelter Series 2 In Your Dreams Pavlovian The Shortest Way Home Houseroom The Limit Accept No Substitute Mrs Manville Disposes In Cold(ish) Blood Darren Springs Forward In the Dark Series 3 Consequences You Never Said The West Wing Tristan da Cunha Waiting for JB Weemails Protective Colouring Speed Kills A Weight off His Mind The Day the Earth Moved Slightly Series 4 Taking It In Celebration Braking Distance © 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532669 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Life Without Children: StoriesAuthor: Roddy DoyleNarrator: Roddy DoyleFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 53 minutesRelease date: October 7, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet. © Roddy Doyle 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531808 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Here in Hart's Crossing: Four Charming Small Town NovellasAuthor: Robin Lee HatcherNarrator: Eve Passeltiner, Windy Lanzl, James C. Lewis, Aimee LillyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 46 minutesRelease date: September 14, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: In the charming town of Hartâs Crossing, neighbors still care about neighbors and visitors are offered a respite from fast-paced living as they observe the antics of the townâs lovable residents. In this wonderful collection of four novellas, a daughter returns home from the big city to care for her injured mother, childhood sweethearts reconnect after decades apart, a single mom finds herself the target of her starry-eyed daughterâs matchmaking scheme, and a young couple struggles to find their own American dream. Celebrating family, faith, and forgiveness, Here in Hartâs Crossing will warm your heart and soothe your spirit.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/535150 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Land of Big NumbersAuthor: Te-Ping ChenNarrator: Chris Noaki Lee, Fiona Rene, Eddy Lee, Christine Lakin, Lynn Chen, Katie Tang, Matt Yang KimFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 35 minutesRelease date: August 19, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth. A BARACK OBAMA READING LIST SELECTION FOR SUMMER 2021 âIn this magnificent collection of stories, the author vividly captures the desires and losses of a richly drawn cast while drawing on the realities of contemporary Chinaâ? Cosmopolitan A brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the Communist government on her underground blog; a worker at a government call centre is alarmed one day to find herself speaking to a former lover; a delicious new fruit arrives at the neighbourhood market and the locals find it starts to affect their lives in ways they could never have imagined; and a young woman's dreams of making it big in Shanghai are stalled when she finds herself working as a florist. These are just some of the myriad lives to be evoked in The Land of Big Numbers, a collection of stories which - sometimes playfully, sometimes darkly - draws back the curtain on the realities of modern China and unveils a cast of characters as rich and complicated as any in world literature. With virtuosic brilliance, Te-ping Chen sheds light on a country much talked about but little understood and announces the birth of a bright new star in the literary firmament. Praise for Land of Big Numbers âA spectacular work, comic, timely, profound. Te-Ping Chen has a superb eye for detail in a China where transformation occurs simultaneously too fast and too slow for lives in pursuit of meaning in a brave new world. Her characters are achingly alive. Itâs rare to read a collection so satisfying, where every story adds to a gripping and intricate world.â Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing âTe-Ping Chenâs Land of Big Numbers contains 10 illuminating, sharp stories set in China, penned by a former investigative reporter who worked in Beijing for several yearsâ The Independent 'Chinaâs borders have remained closed to foreign travellers since the first few months of the Covid pandemic, and look set to remain so in the immediate future. For those who want a peek inside the country, this very readable collection of short stories is a great place to start.' Financial Times âTe-Ping Chen shows us how much life, loss, and quiet pleasure exists in the world, just out of view.â Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530700 to listen full audiobooks.Title: AfterpartiesAuthor: Anthony Veasna SoNarrator: Jason SeanFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 56 minutesRelease date: August 19, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship and family. A high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage player. Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle's snubbing of the bride and groom. A queer love affair sparks between an older tech entrepreneur trying to launch a 'safe space' app and a disillusioned young teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick. And in the sweeping final story, a nine-year-old child learns that his mother survived a racist school shooter. With nuanced emotional precision, gritty humour and compassionate insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities, the stories in Afterparties deliver an explosive introduction to the work of Anthony Veasna So. âA stunning collection from an exciting new voice.â BRIT BENNETT, author of The Vanishing Half âA bright and fearless debut, full of heart, joy and unforgettable characters.â DOUGLAS STUART âI was in awe through the entire collection - and you will be, too. Afterparties is an actual marvel. âBRYAN WASHINGTON, author of Lot and Memorial âA wildly energetic, heartfelt, original debut by a young writer of exceptional promise. These stories, powered by So's skill with the telling detail, are like beams of wry, affectionate light, falling from different directions on a complicated, struggling, beloved American community.â GEORGE SAUNDERS âThe mind-frying hilarity of Anthony Veasna So's first book of fiction settles him as the genius of social satire our age needs now more than ever. Few writers can handle firm plot action and wrenching pathos in such elegant prose. This unforgettable new voice is at once poetic and laugh-out-loud funny. â MARY KARR, author of The Liars' Club âAnthony Veasna So is a terrific writer. These wild, complex and funny stories are brilliant in every way. One of the most exciting debuts of the past decade.â DANA SPIOTTA, author of Innocents and Others âKaren Russell, Carmen Maria Machado, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - you can count on one hand the authors of this century whose debut short-story collections are as prodigious and career-making as Afterparties.â Jonathan Dee, author of The Privileges
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533265 to listen full audiobooks.Title: American Estrangement: StoriesAuthor: Said SayrafiezadehNarrator: Lynch Travis, Stephen Prechtl, David Bendena, Pete Cross, Qarie Marshall, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Mark OwenFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 4 hours 35 minutesRelease date: August 10, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Said Sayrafiezadeh has been hailed by Philip Gourevitch as âa masterful storyteller working from deep in the American grain.â His new collection of stories?some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories?are set in a contemporary America full of the kind of emotionally bruised characters familiar to fans of Denis Johnson and George Saunders. These are people contending with internal struggles?a sonâs fractured relationship with his father, the death of a mother, the loss of a job, drug addiction?even as they are battered by the larger, often invisible, economic and political forces of American society. Searing, intimate, often slyly funny, and always marked by a deep imaginative sympathy, American Estrangement is a testament to our addled times. It will cement Sayrafiezadehâs reputation as one of the essential twenty-first-century American writers.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527876 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Richer, the PoorerAuthor: Dorothy WestNarrator: JD Jackson, Janina Edwards, Shayna Small, Karen Chilton, Robin MilesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 27 minutesRelease date: August 3, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: On the heels of the bestseller success of her novel The Wedding, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, presents a collection of essays and stories that explore both the realism of everyday life, and the fantastical, extraordinary circumstances of one woman's life in a mythic time. Traversing the universal themes and conflicts between poverty and prosperity, men and women, and young and old, and compiling writing that spans almost seventy years, The Richer, The Poorer not only affords an unparalleled window into the African-American middle class, but also delves into the richness of experience of "one of the finest writers produced in this country during the Roaring Twenties"(Book Page).
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533113 to listen full audiobooks.Title: [Spanish] - Humanos que me encontrĂ©Author: Jordi SĂĄnchezNarrator: Tony MontanerFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 3 hours 36 minutesRelease date: July 27, 2021Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: Libro de relatos que mezcla la imaginaciĂłn y el ingenio de su autor, el afamado autor Jordi SĂĄnchez, protagonista de ficciones como La que se avecina. Con un afilado sentido del humor no exento de crĂtica, repasa su vida, su carrera en la interpretaciĂłn y la dramaturgia y su relaciĂłn con el arte sin dejar de perder de vista los absurdos de nuestro dĂa a dĂa. Un delicioso libro que habla de tĂș a tĂș a autores como Eduardo Mendoza, Elvira Lindo o Jardiel Poncela. Este audiolibro estĂĄ narrado en castellano. - Jordi SĂĄnchez Zaragoza (Barcelona, 13 de mayo de 1964) es un dramaturgo, actor y guionista español, popular por interpretar papeles televisivos como Antonio Recio en La que se avecina y Josep Lopes en Plats bruts. Es el autor de las obras teatrales: KrĂĄmpack, Soy fea, Excusas, Hoy no cenamos, Asesinos todos, Mitad y Mitad, El eunuco.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529844 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Guy at the WeddingAuthor: Katherine CenterNarrator: Katherine CenterFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 16 minutesRelease date: July 20, 2021Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.98 of Total 279 Ratings of Narrator: 4.26 of Total 116Genres: Short StoriesPublisher's Summary: From Katherine Center, New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away, comes a short story, The Guy at the Wedding. **This audio edition is read by the author**
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