Audiobook Tour: Colombia

Love in the Time of Cholera

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

“I am a hopeless and dedicated romantic who believes in beauty and kindness above all things. Magical realism + florid language + the knowledge that your true love is worth waiting for, no matter what the battles ahead. This book is as timely as it ever was. Read more

The Divine Boys

By: Laura Restrepo
Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

From acclaimed Colombian author Laura Restrepo comes a prize-winning novel inspired by a true crime that shattered a community and exposed the dark recesses of toxic masculinity and privilege.Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn... Read more

El olvido que seremos

By: Héctor Abad Faciolince
Narrated by: Héctor Abad Faciolince
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

"Héctor Abad ha escrito una historia trágica e inolvidable". J. M. Coetzee El 25 de agosto de 1987 Héctor Abad Gómez, médico y activista en pro de los derechos humanos, es asesinado en Medellín. Este libro es su biografía novelada, escrita por su propio hijo. Un relato desgarrador y emocionante sobre la familia, que refleja, al tiempo, el... Read more

Songs for the Flames

Stories

By: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Narrated by: Sheldon Romero & Alfredo Huereca
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence—sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing—but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces.

A... Read more

Maria - Abridged

By: Jorge Isaacs
Narrated by: Fabio Camero
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

La historia de amor de America. La novela romantica colombiana y de America por excelencia, María ha deleitado y conmovido a sus lectores por mas de un siglo, ya que en esta obra estan no solo el tierno y tragico idilio de Efrain y María, sino tambien el paisaje vallecaucano en todo su esplendor. Esta obra de Isaacs, un descendiente de judios... Read more

Magdalena

River of Dreams: A Story of Colombia

By: Wade Davis
Narrated by: Wade Davis & Xandra Uribe
Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

A captivating new book from Wade Davis--award-winning, best-selling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade--that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena, illuminating Colombia's complex past, present, and future

Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their... Read more

Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar

A Memoir

By: Virginia Vallejo
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

Now a major motion picture!

Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media personalities, police, and unarmed citizens.

In the... Read more

El renacuajo paseador

By: Rafael Pombo
Narrated by: Adriana Villalba
Length: 1 minute

El renacuajo paseador es un clásico de los cuentos infantiles escrito por Rafael Pombo. Enseña a los niños los diferentes valores como el respeto y la bondad, a través de una pequeña fábula protagonizada por Rin Rin el renacuajo. Read more

Living to Tell the Tale

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Christopher Salazar
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

One of the most acclaimed and revered Nobel laureates begins to tell us the story of his life.Living to Tell the Tale spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has the shape, the quality, and the... Read more

Pablo Escobar

My Father

By: Juan Pablo Escobar
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

The popular television series Narcos captures only half the truth. Here, at last, is the full story.Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time. But these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home.More than... Read more

Somos luces abismales

By: Carolina Sanín
Narrated by: Mariana Martí
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Ocho escritos originales y sorprendentes de Carolina Sanín. En Somos luces abismales, Carolina Sanín se sumerge en sus recuerdos, en sus lecturas y sobre todo en el lenguaje para descubrir, comprender y cuestionar distintas facetas del mundo y de ella misma. Estos textos inclasificables, a la vez eruditos, intimistas, tiernos, poéticos,... Read more

The Shape of the Ruins

A Novel

By: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Narrated by: Sheldon Romero
Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for... Read more

Escombros

By: Fernando Vallejo
Narrated by: Sandro Romero Rey
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Los viejos no han logrado decir nada definitivo sobre la vejez, pero el viejo maledicente de este libro logra contarla con lucidez "Desde Cicerón, e incluyéndolo a él, los viejos no han logrado decir nada definitivo sobre la vejez. No logran contarla. Acaso porque hace parte de ella el cansancio. El verdadero viejo, digamos uno de cien, está tan... Read more

Hot Sur

By: Laura Restrepo
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez & David Colacci
Length: 22 hours 37 minutes

From revered Colombian writer Laura Restrepo comes the smart, thrilling story of a young woman trying to outrun a nightmare.María Paz is a young Latin American woman who, like many others, has come to America chasing a dream. When she is accused of murdering her husband and sentenced to life behind bars, she must struggle to keep hope alive as... Read more

Lo que no tiene nombre

By: Piedad Bonnett
Narrated by: Victoria De Hoyos
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

¿Hasta dónde puede llegar la literatura? En este libro dedicado a la vida y la muerte de su hijo Daniel, Piedad Bonnett alcanza con las palabras los lugares más extremos de la existencia. La naturalidad y la extrañeza conviven en sus páginas igual que en su mirada conviven la sequedad de la inteligencia y el latido más intenso de la emoción.... Read more

Cien años de soledad

By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Juan Pablo Raba
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Señalada como «catedral gótica del lenguaje», este clásico del siglo XX es el enorme y espléndido tapiz de la saga de la familia Buendía, en la mítica aldea de Macondo. UNO DE LOS 5 LIBROS MÁS IMPORTANTES DE LOS ÚLTIMOS 125 AÑOS SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES Un referente imprescindible de la vida y la narrativa latinoamericana. «Muchos años... Read more

El ruido de las cosas al caer (Premio Alfaguara de novela 2011)

Premio Alfaguara de novela: Book #0

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Narrated by: John Alex Toro
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Una novela llena de suspense y la perfecta radiografía de una generación atrapada en el miedo. Novela ganadora del English Pen Award 2012, del Premio Gregor von Rezzori-Città di Firenze 2013 y del IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award 2014. Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2011. Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara... Read more

Casa de furia

By: Evelio Rosero
Narrated by: Adrián Wowczuk
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

"La sala se remeció del estruendo, pero no eran carcajadas felices sino funéreas, y, sin embargo, compaginaban muy bien con la gran fiesta que se oía desde el jardín". Es abril de 1970 y la imponente casa de los Caicedo, ubicada en uno de los barrios más distinguidos de Bogotá, se prepara para celebrar el aniversario de bodas de los patriarcas... Read more

El Gato Bandido

By: Rafael Pombo
Narrated by: Various
Length: 44 minutes

El gato bandido que quiso volveerse pateta y todo le salio mal. Una de las más célebres fábulas de Pombo es la base para esta dramatización que explica al personaje y que es un deleite escuchar. Pombo fue un poeta Colombiano nacido Bogotá, estudió ingeniería, luego se hizo diplomático, fue miembro del Parlamento de su país; y se lo considera uno... Read more

Colombia

What Everyone Needs to Know

By: Richard D. Mahoney
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel García Marquez once called "a biblical holocaust" of human savagery. Along with the scourge of drug-related massacres facing the country, politically-motivated assassinations (averaging thirty per day in the 1990s), widespread disappearances, rapes, and kidnappings... Read more