Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302367 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - Ladrón de mapas Author: Eduardo Lago Narrator: Antonio Ramírez Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 32 minutes Release date: December 29, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Una obra singular que se estructura en tres partes que contienen diversas historias. Se entrelazan a través de una intriga protagonizada por una mujer que emprende la búsqueda del autor de las historias, que ella encontró en internet. Un misterioso autor que oculta su paradero y cuyo estilo de escritura, sus referencias, su s deseos, sus demonios, coinciden con los de un antiguo amor... Un gran proyecto literario ambicioso, hermoso y perfecto. Primer libro publicado tras el éxito de Llamame Brooklyn, su primera novela con la que consiguió en 2006 el Premio Nadal, además de una impresionante lista de galardones. Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. - Eduardo Lago es un escritor nacido en Madrid en 1954. Es licenciado en filosofía y doctor en literatura española por la University of New York. Ha llegado a dirigir el Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York, dado clases de español y ocupado plaza de catedrático de literaturas hispánicas en dicha ciudad. Como traductor, ha traducido la obra de autores como Junot Díaz, Christopher Isherwood o David Foster Wallace. En su faceta literaria, ha cultivado tanto el relato como la novela, por la que ha llegado a ganar el Premio Nadal, el Premio de la Crítica de narrativa castellana o el Ciudad de Barcelona.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302589 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La paz de los sepulcros Author: Jorge Volpi Narrator: Carlos Pérez Merinero Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: March 2, 2020 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. La aparición del cuerpo sin vida de Alberto Navarro, ministro del Interior mexicano y posible candidato a la presidencia del país, junto al cadáver de un hombre desconocido en la habitación de un hotel de las afueras de la capital mexicana, conmueve a una sociedad desafortunadamente acostumbrada a la corrupción y el despoti smo de sus gobernantes, los abusos del ejército y la violencia sanguinaria de sus cárteles de droga y delincuentes. Pero para Agustín Oropeza, periodista de la prensa amarilla, el doble asesinato va más allá de una exclusiva para la Tribuna del escándalo, cuando reconoce la identidad del cadáver del hombre que perdió la vida junto al asesinado ministro. Con el estilo reflexivo y magistral que caracteriza a Jorge Volpi, y sin omitir la aplastante realidad de México, el autor nos adentra a través de Oropeza en el submundo de la prostitución infantil, funcionarios corruptos y una vida nocturna colmada de drogas y de una actividad sexual frenética que convive con una sociedad que coexiste con el miedo, el asombro y el apetito por lo morboso. Son tiempos de desolación en que cabe preguntarse qué sucede en las altas esferas y qué esconde la realidad política. - Jorge Luis Volpi Escalante es un escritor mexicano nacido en Ciudad de México el 10 de julio de 1968. Licenciado en Derecho por la UNAM, obtuvo el grado de maestro en Letras Mexicanas por la misma universidad, doctorándose posteriormente en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad de Salamanca, en España, con una tesis sobre el poeta Jorge Cuesta (autor mexicano muerto por suicidio en 1942). Ha trabajado como diplomático en Francia, colaborando asimismo en diversos medios culturales tales como el diario español El País, y los mexicanos Confabulario, Viceversa, Letra Internacional y Letras Libres. También dirige la televisión gubernamental mexicana 'Canal 22'.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307651 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Long Deception Author: Mary McCluskey Narrator: Henrietta Meire Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 30, 2018 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The sudden death of a childhood friend forces a woman to rethink her own life—and make an impossible decision. Alison Eastlake has come a long way from the wild days of her youth in England. Now, instead of streaking her hair purple, dreaming of becoming an artist, and sneaking cigarettes in her friend Sophie’s basement, she has a career in advertising in Los Angeles and attends black-tie dinners with her executive husband. She fears that she is fast becoming the type of person she once despised. When Alison receives news that Sophie has died of a drug overdose, leaving behind a slew of unanswered questions, she must go back home. Once there, she unearths reminders of her unruly past, including feelings for Sophie’s brother, Matt—and finds that she is still powerfully attracted to him. Careening dangerously close to a full-blown affair, Alison must now make an impossible decision. But when a long-buried secret about Sophie resurfaces, it shatters everything Alison had always believed about the past—and forces her to rethink her own life, her marriage, and her future.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306247 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Paris Still Life: A Novel Author: Rosalind Brackenbury Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 1, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: After the death of her art dealer father, forty-year-old Gaby Greenwood’s unmoored grief drives her to Paris alone, leaving her American husband behind. Where better for an existential crisis than the city so many artists have loved? Walking through the streets, she sees a man with white hair and a worn corduroy jacket—a dead ringer for her late father. A ghost? Or has mourning driven her mad? Then she receives a letter from a woman she never knew existed—her father’s lover of three decades. The mysterious Françoise has been entrusted with her father’s last gift to Gaby, a valuable seventeenth-century still life. The woman is also the bearer of so many of her father’s secrets. But when Gaby takes a French lover, she starts to question everything she ever knew about her father and her own double life: America or Paris, husband or lover, old life or a new, reimagined one?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307095 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Author: L. Frank Baum Narrator: Johnny Heller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 16 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The Life and Adventures of Santa Clause is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The book is the origin story of Santa Claus and persuasively explains how he began to deliver toys to children, why he arrives via chimney at night, and how he came to travel by a sleigh pulled by reindeer. Santa Claus appears in several other L. Frank Baum Oz stories, including A Kidnapped Santa Clause, queen Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz, and The Road to Oz.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308023 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Penelope Author: Rebecca Harrington Narrator: Emily Rankin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: When Penelope O’Shaunessy, “an incoming freshman of average height and lank hair” steps into Harvard Yard for the first time she has lots of advice from her mother: 'Don't be too enthusiastic, don't talk to people who seem to be getting annoyed, and for heaven's sake, stop playing Tetris on your phone at parties.' Penelope needs this advice. She is the kind of girl who passes through much of her life with coffee spilled on her white shirt, who can't quite tell when people are joking, and who, inevitably, always says the wrong thing. But no amount of coaching will prepare Penelope for the people she meets at school.   Gloriously skewering the social hierarchy of college, Penelope is the brilliantly funny story of one of the most singular, memorable heroines in recent fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307444 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Wake Up Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: December 5, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes an emotional novel of how one man’s life changes forever when he rediscovers his ability to feel the pain of others. Something has been asleep in forty-year-old cattle rancher Aiden Delacorte for a long time. It all comes back in a rush during a hunting trip, when he’s suddenly attuned to the animals around him, feeling their pain and fear as if it were his own. But the newfound sensitivity of Aiden’s “wake up” has its price. He can no longer sleepwalk through life, holding everyone at arm’s length. As he struggles to cope with a trait he’s buried since childhood, Aiden falls in love with Gwen, a single mother whose young son bears a burden of his own. Sullen and broken from his experiences with an abusive father, Milo has turned to acting out in violent and rebellious ways. Aiden can feel the boy’s pain, as well as that of his victims. Now he and Milo must sift through their pasts to find empathy with the innocent as well as the guilty, to come to terms with their deepest fears, and to finally discover the compassionate heart of a family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/303775 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dark Echoes of the Past Author: Ramón Díaz Eterovic Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 43 minutes Release date: December 1, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: The first novel by multiple-award-winning Chilean author Ramón Díaz Eterovic to be translated into English—a landmark event for fans of crime fiction. Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can’t stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they’ve come to him… Virginia Reyes’s brother, an ex–political prisoner of dictator Augusto Pinochet, was killed in an apparent robbery. Yet nothing of value was taken. The police have declared the case closed, but Virginia suspects that things aren’t quite as they appear and turns to Heredia for help. Heredia couldn’t agree more—but he can’t shake the feeling that there’s something Virginia’s not telling him. Heredia knows this is not a simple crime. His investigation proves it. Drawn back into a world where murderers nest, secrets are to kill and die for, and Pinochet’s legacy still casts a long, dark, and very threatening shadow, it’s all Heredia can do to crawl out of it alive.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307342 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Too Shall Pass Author: Milena Busquets Narrator: Mozhan Marno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 59 minutes Release date: November 16, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Random House presents the audiobook edition of This Too Shall Pass by Milena Busquets, read by Mozhan Marno. Forty years old and suddenly motherless, Blanca is left shocked and rudderless by the death of the most important person in her life. To deal with her dizzying grief and confusion, Blanca turns to her dearest friends, her closest family, a change of scenery, and sex. Leaving Barcelona behind, she returns to her mother’s former home in Cadaqués on the coast, accompanied by her two sons, two ex-husbands, and two best friends, with plans to meet her married lover. Haunted by both the past and the present, Blanca spends the summer in this impossibly beautiful place alongside those she loves most. In loss she learns to find resilience and hope, and what it means to live, truly and happily, on her own terms.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/308215 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Flint, Book 1: Choosing Sides Series: #1 of The Flint Series Author: Treasure Hernandez Narrator: L. Steven Taylor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 14, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Welcome to Flint, Michigan, one of the roughest little cities in America, a place where the good die young, loyalty is a rarity, and everybody has a hustle. Malek Johnson’s hustle is the basketball court, and he’s the best Flint’s projects has ever produced. He’s on his way to the University of Michigan, but not for long, because all the NBA scouts say he’s destined for the pros after a year or two of seasoning. Malek finds love in the super fine girl everyone calls Halleigh, and he promises her that he will take her out of the hood. When Halleigh’s virginity is traded in exchange for her mother’s drug tab, their dream spirals out of control, and they are quickly separated and sucked into the life that they have so desperately tried to avoid. With no place to go, their destinies take them down separate paths. Malek becomes affiliated with the North Side’s biggest kingpin, and Halleigh is manipulated into the streets by his South Side adversary. North versus South, love versus loyalty, and lies versus truth. What will they choose? Walk with Halleigh and Malek as they introduce you to a new struggle in a new city … a place called Flint.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307937 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Christmas Pudding Author: Nancy Mitford Narrator: Kristin Atherton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 9, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford, read by Kristin Atherton. The formidable fox-hunting obsessed Lady Bobbin has put together a Christmas house party at Compton Bobbin, including her rebellious daughter Philadelphia, the girl's pompous suitor, a couple of children obsessed with newspaper death notices, and an aspiring writer whose deadly (in more ways than one) serious first novel has been acclaimed as the funniest book of the year, to his utter dismay. And then there is beautiful ex courtesan Amabelle Fortescue and her group of guests staying in a nearby cottage ... As the house parties starts to unravel, so the jokes increase: this is Nancy Mitford's second novel and one of her earliest forays into the world of the Bright Young Things.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/302806 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Heather, the Totality Author: Matthew Weiner Narrator: Matthew Weiner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 30 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men. Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307421 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance Author: Bill Mckibben Narrator: Danny Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “We've got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact.” –Bernie Sanders A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic.   As the host of Radio Free Vermont--'underground, underpowered, and underfoot'--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law.   In Radio Free Vermont, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that's become more popular than ever--seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of 'Ethan Allen Day' and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty, biting, and terrifyingly timely, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben's fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306848 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wonder Valley: A Novel Author: Ivy Pochoda Narrator: Will Damron Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 40 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael Connelly When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles. From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row. During a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars.  The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harboring a dark secret. There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. And there's Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight off his most violent instincts.  Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city. Wonder Valley is a swirling mix of angst, violence, heartache, and yearning—a masterpiece by a writer on the rise.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306851 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ruined House: A Novel Author: Ruby Namdar Narrator: Paul Boehmer Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: “In The Ruined House a ‘small harmless modicum of vanity’ turns into an apocalyptic bonfire.  Shot through with humor and mystery and insight, Ruby Namdar's wonderful first novel examines how the real and the unreal merge.  It's a daring study of madness, masculinity, myth-making and the human fragility that emerges in the mix.'' —Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin Winner of the Sapir Prize, Israel’s highest literary award Picking up the mantle of legendary authors such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, an exquisite literary talent makes his debut with a nuanced and provocative tale of materialism, tradition, faith, and the search for meaning in contemporary American life. Andrew P. Cohen, a professor of comparative culture at New York University, is at the zenith of his life. Adored by his classes and published in prestigious literary magazines, he is about to receive a coveted promotion—the crowning achievement of an enviable career. He is on excellent terms with Linda, his ex-wife, and his two grown children admire and adore him. His girlfriend, Ann Lee, a former student half his age, offers lively companionship. A man of elevated taste, education, and culture, he is a model of urbanity and success. But the manicured surface of his world begins to crack when he is visited by a series of strange and inexplicable visions involving an ancient religious ritual that will upend his comfortable life. Beautiful, mesmerizing, and unsettling, The Ruined House unfolds over the course of one year, as Andrew’s world unravels and he is forced to question all his beliefs. Ruby Namdar’s brilliant novel embraces the themes of the American Jewish literary canon as it captures the privilege and pedantry of New York intellectual life in the opening years of the twenty-first century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306913 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth Author: William Boyd Narrator: William Boyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 35 minutes Release date: November 2, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth written and read by William Boyd. A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their five year relationship backwards, from awkward reunion to lovelorn first encounter. And, at the heart of the book, a 24-year old young woman, Bethany Mellmoth, embarks on a year-long journey of wishful and tentative self-discovery. The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth depicts the random encounters that bring the past bubbling to the surface; the impulsive decisions that irrevocably shape a life; and the endless hesitations and loss-of-nerve that wickedly complicate it. These funny, surprising and moving stories are a resounding confirmation of Boyd's powers as one of our most original and compelling storytellers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella Author: Fredrik Backman Narrator: Santino Fontana Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.86 of Total 7 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Beartown, and Anxious People delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life. A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it’s too late. He tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away. She’s a smart kid—smart enough to know that she won’t beat cancer by drawing with crayons all day, but it seems to make the adults happy, so she keeps doing it. As he talks about this plucky little girl, the father also reveals more about himself: his triumphs in business, his failures as a parent, his past regrets, his hopes for the future. Now, on a cold winter’s night, the father has been given an unexpected chance to do something remarkable that could change the destiny of a little girl he hardly knows. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he must find out what his own life has actually been worth, and only his son can reveal that answer. With humor and compassion, Fredrik Backman’s The Deal of a Lifetime reminds us that life is a fleeting gift, and our legacy rests in how we share that gift with others.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307047 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Rebbetzin’s Courtyard Author: Ruchama King Feuerman Narrator: Sam Guncler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 48 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Shaindel, the elderly widow of a dead kabbalist, seeks out her former assistant Isaac to help launch her debut as the new kabbalist of the courtyard. Isaac puts aside his own career plans (he’s about to receive his rabbinic ordination) and gladly agrees to help with all the people flocking to the courtyard with their problems. He thinks the lady will be the same deeply warm, behind-the-scenes and discreetly wise woman he recalls from their old courtyard days. But he is shocked and unnerved to discover a very different Shaindel who has a kabbalistic mind of her own, and who throws all his ideas about women, mysticism, and his career into disarray.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307178 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker Author: Gregory Maguire Narrator: Steven Crossley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.25 of Total 4 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: In this imaginative novel rooted in the rich soil of early-nineteenth-century German Romanticism, beloved New York Times bestselling author Gregory Maguire twins an origin legend of the famous Nutcracker with the life of Drosselmeier, the toymaker who carves him. Gregory Maguire’s novels have been called ''bewitching,'' ''remarkable,'' ''extraordinary,'' ''engrossing,'' ''amazing,'' and ''delicious.'' Having brought his legions of devoted readers to Oz in Wicked, Wonderland in After Alice and Dickensian London in Lost, Maguire now takes us to the Black Forest of Bavaria and Munich of the Brothers Grimm and E. T. A. Hoffman. Hiddensee recreates the backstory of the Nutcracker, reimaging how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how it magically guided an ailing little girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on a snowy Christmas Eve. It also brings to life the mysterious godfather Drosselmeier—the ominous, canny, one-eyed toymaker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky’s ballet—who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter. But Hiddensee is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism a migrating strain of a Hellenic mystery-cult, and ponders a profound question: how a person who is abused by life, short-changed and challenged, can access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless. Ultimately, Hiddensee, offers a message of hope. If the compromised Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized on the eve of a winter holiday, has something precious to share.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306579 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Fire Author: Henning Mankell Narrator: Sean Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 57 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Henning Mankell's last novel, about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out his days in quiet solitude. One autumn evening, he is startled awake by a blinding light--only to discover that his house is on fire. With the help of Jansson, he escapes the flames just in time wearing two left boots. Dawn reveals that everything he owns is now a smoldering pile of ash and his house is destroyed--forcing him to move into an abandoned trailer on his island. A local journalist, Lisa Modin, who wants to write a story about the fire, comes into his life. In doing so, she awakens in him something that he thought was long dead. Soon after, his daughter comes to the island with surprising news of her own. Meanwhile, the police suspect Fredrik of arson because he had a sizable insurance claim on his house. When Fredrik is away from the archipelago, another house goes up in flames and the community realizes they have an arsonist in their midst. After the Fire is an intimate portrait of an elderly recluse who is forced to open himself up to a world he'd left behind.