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Arian Moayed
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Kaveh Akbar
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 2025 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, Long-listed • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. Electrifying, funny, and wholly original, Martyr! heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in contemporary fiction.
“Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever.”—Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of There There
“The best novel you'll ever read about the joy of language, addiction, displacement, martyrdom, belonging, homesickness.”—Lauren Groff, best-selling author of Matrix and Fates and Furies
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others.
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- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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- De vanessa l graves en 01-08-25
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Good Material
- A Novel
- De: Dolly Alderton
- Narrado por: Arthur Darvill, Vanessa Kirby
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is. . . Without a home Waiting for his stand-up career to take off Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking. Set adrift on the sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story…
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not what I expected
- De Amazon Customer en 05-01-24
De: Dolly Alderton
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You Dreamed of Empires
- A Novel
- De: Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer - translator
- Narrado por: Gabriel Porras
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.
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Confusing and Difficult to Understand
- De francine steelman en 03-02-24
De: Álvaro Enrigue, y otros
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Orbital
- De: Samantha Harvey
- Narrado por: Sarah Naudi
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below.
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Dull
- De ELLEZEE en 02-03-24
De: Samantha Harvey
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Creation Lake
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Kushner
- Narrado por: Rachel Kushner
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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A thirty-four-year-old American woman—a secret agent—is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. Sadie has met her love, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by “cold bump”—making him believe the encounter was accidental. Like everyone Sadie targets, Lucien is useful to her and used by her. Sadie operates by strategy and dissimulation, based on what her “contacts”—shadowy figures in business and government—instruct.
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Author should not have been the reader
- De Raj A. en 09-11-24
De: Rachel Kushner
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James
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers/listeners of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
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This is the real story of Huck…
- De Poor Fisherman en 04-07-24
De: Percival Everett
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Evenings and Weekends
- A Novel
- De: Oisín McKenna
- Narrado por: Isabel Adomakoh-Young
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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Summer in London stops for no one. Not the half-naked drunks and stoners, the bachelorette parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried cigarettes. It’s June 2019, and everyone has converged on the city’s parks, beer gardens, and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant, and broke.
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Amazing Narration
- De Kristen en 03-12-25
De: Oisín McKenna
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The Bee Sting
- A Novel
- De: Paul Murray
- Narrado por: Heather O’Sullivan, Barry Fitzgerald, Beau Holland, y otros
- Duración: 26 h y 10 m
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The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under—but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter, Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge drink her way through her final exams. As for twelve-year-old PJ, he’s on the brink of running away.
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Bone Clocks meets Jonathan Franzen
- De Cranson en 10-26-23
De: Paul Murray
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Last Summer in the City
- A Novel
- De: Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis - translator, Andre Aciman - foreword
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing between run-down hotels and the homes of his rich and well-educated friends, without whom he would probably starve. At 30, he’s still drifting: between jobs that mean nothing to him, between human relationships both ephemeral and frayed. Everyone he knows wants to graduate, get married, get rich - but not him. He has no ambitions whatsoever.
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must check out
- De Anonymous User en 09-28-22
De: Gianfranco Calligarich, y otros
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The Heart in Winter
- A Novel
- De: Kevin Barry
- Narrado por: Kevin Barry
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
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October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington.
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Road to nowhere
- De Glenda O'Rourke en 07-29-24
De: Kevin Barry
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Beautyland
- De: Marie-Helene Bertino
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings.
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Unforgettable
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-24
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My Friends
- A Novel
- De: Hisham Matar
- Narrado por: Hisham Matar
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.
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Beautifully written
- De Anonymous User en 06-24-24
De: Hisham Matar
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Colored Television
- A Novel
- De: Danzy Senna
- Narrado por: Kristen Ariza
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped.
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Frustrating
- De Carolyn White en 12-12-24
De: Danzy Senna
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Wandering Stars
- A Novel
- De: Tommy Orange
- Narrado por: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola.
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Beautiful writing and performance of realistic native family saga
- De ReallyNelie en 07-12-24
De: Tommy Orange
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A Quitter's Paradise
- A Novel
- De: Elysha Chang
- Narrado por: Angela Lin
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she’s hiding things from her husband. Sure, she quit her PhD program and is now conducting unauthorized research on illegitimately procured mice. And, true, her mother is dead, and Eleanor has yet to go through her things. But what else is she supposed to do? What shape can grief take when you didn’t understand the person you’ve lost?
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Awful
- De JAC en 06-14-23
De: Elysha Chang
One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
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We live until we die
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Best contemporary fiction read since Infinite Jest
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Searching for meaning and love
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confusing but compelling
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Beautiful
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Terrific, lyrical, beautiful writing
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Brilliant writing
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After reading it, I recommend a reader put it aside ( but not too far away) with the intention of reading it again perhaps a month later. Yes, it’s that good.
Worthy of being cited as best of 2024
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Best narrator!
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