Women in Translation

A Magical Girl Retires

A Novel

By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

“This audiobook was incredibly easy to listen to and entertaining the entire time. Typically when you hear of magical girls, you imagine a fantasy-like world, but this story had such a refreshing take. A Magical Girl Retires is the first book I’ve read that so perfectly executed magical realism, mixing the two aspects together so seamlessly that... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica
Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

“Having read Bradbury and Orwell it is easy to imagine the dystopia that Tender Is the Flesh seeks to convey. This book gave me goosebumps and it gave me a visceral reaction - it felt so real. Truly disturbingly well written. There is a theme of body autonomy in this book and mass consumption of animals. The ending will make you feel intense... Read more

Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

“Minor Detail is a Palestinian story in two parts. The first part takes place in 1949 and follows a woman who is being held captive by the military. The second part is set years in the future and follows a woman who is investigating the disappearance of the woman in part one. Shibli’s writing is brutal at times, but the beauty of her prose shines... Read more

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

A Novel

By: Olga Tokarczuk
Narrated by: Beata Pozniak
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

“Janina is an eccentric middle-aged woman who translates William Blake, studies astrology, and is acutely attuned to the wilderness around her in rural Poland. When hunters and poachers begin to be gruesomely murdered, Janina informs the police that the animals are responsible. As the bodies mount, so does her involvement with the mystery,... Read more

My Brilliant Friend

The Neapolitan Novels: Book #1

By: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

“Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels are a fierce, intimate, and beautifully unflinching account of female friendship - believe the hype - -a fever dream that leaves you impossibly clear-headed. Read more

Celestial Bodies

By: Jokha Alharthi
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

“In this gripping family saga, author Jokha Alharthi—the first female Omani writer to be translated into English—involves you deeply in the personal drama of her characters and in the extended family system, which includes former servants and masters, while also somehow telling the modern history of the country of Oman. I was immediately... Read more

Forgotten on Sunday

By: Valérie Perrin
Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

“I want to live in the world the Perrin creates. Her writing is real, fun, and unexpected. The story twists and expands and makes me ache for my grandparents who've passed, and the stories that have passed with them. Read more

Your Utopia

Stories

By: Bora Chung
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

“In these stories, Chung’s brilliant imagination brings us futures filled with advanced AI, transformed nature, plague, and questions about humanity. I loved every moment of these stories and each unexpected turn. We don’t know what the future holds, but Chung gives us possibilities that are sometimes frightening, sometimes heartwarming, always... Read more

The Postcard

By: Anne Berest
Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“Wrapped around the mystery of a postcard sent in the mail, this is the story of three generations of a French Jewish family impacted by the Holocaust. Heartbreaking, beautiful, mysterious, and informative. Based on archival research, interviews, and family documents, the author tells this factual story using the tools of fiction for dialogue, an... Read more

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

Seedbank

By: Mikeas Sánchez
Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook
Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

“Translated in English, Spanish, and Sanchez's native language Zoque, the poet creates a powerful, border-crossing work. She weaves tales from her childhood and experiences as an indigenous woman in our modern society into beautiful and striking poetry. An incredible listening experience! Read more

Translating Myself and Others

By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Jhumpa Lahiri & Sneha Mathan
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa Lahiri With an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the author Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa... Read more

The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland.... Read more

Strange Beasts of China

By: Yan Ge
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness—save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets... Read more

The Vanished Collection

By: Pauline Baer De Perignon
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

It all started with a list of paintings. There, scribbled by a cousin she hadn't seen for years, were the names of the masters whose works once belonged to her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss: Renoir, Monet, Degas, Tiepolo, and more. Pauline Baer de Perignon knew little to nothing about Strauss, or about his vanished precious art collection.... Read more

Reptile Memoirs

By: Silje Ulstein & Alison McCullough
Narrated by: Julie Maisey
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Liv has a lot of secrets. For her, home is the picturesque town of Ålesund, perched on a fjord in western Norway. One night, in the early-morning embers of a great party in the basement apartment she shares with two friends, Liv is watching TV, high on weed, and sees a python on an Australian nature show. She becomes obsessed with the idea of... Read more

Grieving

Dispatches from a Wounded Country

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Marisa Blake
Length: 5 hours

This hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border draws together literary theory and historical analysis to outline how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking—culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs”—has shaped Mexico. Working from and... Read more

The Sniper

By: Chang Kuo-Li
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Twelve days before retirement, Taipei police detective Wu is handed a curious case: a Navy officer has been found dead in his hotel room. While it is immediately apparent to Wu that the officer has been murdered, the military insist it was suicide and want the case closed with no questions asked. Soon, however, more high-ranking Navy officers... Read more

The Law of Lines

By: Hye-Young Pyun
Narrated by: Caroline McLaughlin
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

When Se-oh, a recluse still living with her father, returns from an errand to find their house in flames, wrecked by a gas explosion, she is forced back into the world she had tried to escape. The detective investigating the incident tells her that her father caused the explosion to kill himself because of overwhelming debt she knew nothing... Read more

The Hole

By: Hye-Young Pyun
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

In this tense, gripping novel by a star of Korean literature, Oghi wakes from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. Oghi is neglected and left alone in his bed. His world shrinks to the... Read more

The Shadow

By: Melanie Raabe
Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Norah Richter has recently moved from Berlin to Vienna, hoping to put her old life behind her. While walking to her new office one morning, Norah is approached by an elderly homeless woman who utters these chilling words: On the eleventh of February, you will kill a man called Arthur Grimm—with good reason. And of your own free will. Norah is... Read more