Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Contemporary Fiction

Aavarana: The Veil by S. L. Bhyrappa is a story of a free-spirited and rebellious young woman, Lakshmi, who marries the man she is deeply in love with. Amir, her husband, requests she convert to Islam, and she reluctantly agrees. Despite her father being completely against the marriage, she breaks ties with him and changes her name to Razia. However, things change for the worse, and she discovers a different side to Amir. He is not the progressive and liberal person she thought he was.

In the Prince of Wales Hotel and the shabby terraces and tearooms of Westbourne, retired lives run their course - all, in their different ways, anticipating crisis.

鴨川親娘とトラ猫のひるねがお迎えする、看板のない食堂へようこそ！。「鍋焼きうどん」「肉じゃが」ほか、寂しさも辛さも吹き飛ばす、美味しい六皿、ご用意しました！京都のカリスマ案内人、初の小説！

Sie ist dreißig Jahre alt und heißt Kiều, so wie das Mädchen im berühmtesten Werk der vietnamesischen Literatur. Doch sie nennt sich lieber Kim, weil das einfacher ist für ihre Freunde in Berlin. 1968 waren ihre Eltern aus Vietnam nach Deutschland gekommen. Für das, was sie zurückgelassen haben, hat sich die Journalistin nie interessiert. Im Gegenteil: Oft hat sie sich eine Familie gewünscht, die nicht erst deutsch werden muss, sondern es einfach schon ist. Bis zu jener Facebook-Nachricht. Sie stammt von ihrem Onkel, der seit seiner Flucht in Kalifornien lebt.

One mistake can have a thousand consequences. Nofar is just an average teenage girl - so average that she's almost invisible. Serving customers in an ice cream parlour all summer long, she is desperate for some kind of escape. Then one day, in walks faded talent show star Avishai Milner, who, in a moment of anger and misunderstanding, suddenly finds himself accused of sexually assaulting her. Now everyone wants to talk to Nofar: the press, her schoolmates and the boy upstairs who saw what did - and didn't - actually happen.

"My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.” So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New York Times). Lucky Us is a brilliantly written, deeply moving, fantastically funny novel of love, heartbreak, and luck. Disappointed by their families, Iris, the hopeful star, and Eva, the sidekick, journey through 1940s America in search of fame and fortune.

ひょっとしたら、と彼女は思う、世界は本当に終わりかけているのかもしれない。

Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts - four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her grandfather.

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.

Sally et Liss ne pourraient pas être plus différentes l'une de l'autre. Sally, dix-sept ans, vient de fuguer. Anorexique, elle en veut au monde entier. Liss, la cinquantaine, travaille seule à la ferme, dans le silence des champs et des vignes. En offrant l'hospitalité à Sally, Liss ouvre sans le savoir une porte de sa vie. La jeune fille, qui ne devait rester qu'une nuit, trouve quant à elle un refuge auprès d'une femme différente des autres adultes : pas de jugements hâtifs, pas de questions suspectes.

In the Britain of a few tomorrows' time, physical perfection is commonplace and self improvement has become an extinct expression: all the qualities men and women could aspire to can be purchased prior to birth. Genus is a time of genetic selection and enrichment - life chances come on a sliding scale according to wealth. For some there is no money or choice, and an underclass has evolved; London's King's Cross, or The Kross as it is now known, has become a ghetto for the Unimproved.

愛したはずの夫は、まったくの別人であった。──「マチネの終わりに」の平野啓一郎による、傑作長編。

For Joanna and Ted Kramer, building a life in New York City is tough but full of joy thanks to their lovely little boy, Billy. Or so it seems, until one day Joanna walks out, unable to manage the burdens of family life and her own unfulfilled ambitions. Alone with Billy, Ted begins to navigate the challenges of single parenthood and forms a bond with his son that no one can break - except the courts.

Ein bewegender Roman über Hoffnung, Angst und die Frage, was Familie wirklich bedeutet – von Bestsellerautorin Catherine Ryan Hyde. Die Geschichte eines kleinen Jungen, der erst wieder lernen muss, was Vertrauen bedeutet. Die Welt ist voller Gefahren. Das hat sein Vater Remy erklärt, als er mit ihm in die Wildnis gezogen ist. Aber dann stirbt Remys Vater und der Achtjährige muss sich allein durchschlagen. Als er in eine Pflegefamilie kommt, fürchtet er sich vor allem und jedem, vor seinen Pflegegeschwistern nicht weniger als vor den beiden großen Hunden.

At a remote railway station in Norfolk, Kitty Fulton runs the ticket office and her pet project is the lost and found. Nothing gives her more pleasure than to reunite possessions with their rightful owners. It is an experience that remains elusive in her own world as her mother’s Alzheimer’s pulls them further and further apart and, on top of this, she must endure the disintegration of a close relationship with a childhood friend.

事故か、自殺か、殺人か――。母の手記と娘の回想が交錯し、浮かび上がる事件の真相とは。圧倒的に新しい、母娘ミステリー!

第19回 本屋大賞ノミネート! 【第34回柴田錬三郎賞受賞作】 あってはならない感情なんて、この世にない。 それはつまり、いてはいけない人間なんて、この世にいないということだ。

1985年、御巣鷹山で日航機が墜落。その日、北関東新聞の古参記者・悠木は同僚の元クライマー・安西に誘われ、谷川岳に屹立する衝立岩に挑むはずだった。

走ることについて語りつつ、小説家としてのありよう、創作の秘密、そして「彼自身」を初めて説き明かした画期的なメモワール。

Quand son mariage et sa petite entreprise font naufrage, Polly quitte Plymouth et trouve refuge dans un petit port tranquille d'une île des Cornouailles. Quoi de mieux qu'un village de quelques âmes battu par les vents pour réfléchir et repartir à zéro ? Seule dans une boutique laissée à l'abandon, Polly se consacre à son plaisir favori : préparer du pain. Petit à petit, de rencontres farfelues - avec un bébé macareux blessé, un apiculteur dilettante, des marins gourmands - en petits bonheurs partagés, ce qui n'était qu'un break semble annoncer le début d'une nouvelle vie.