Women in Translation

The Wonders

By: Elena Medel
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

“The Wonders is a poet’s novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination.”​ —Hilary Mantel  

NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES 

From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire. 

Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the... Read more

Like Water for Chocolate - Abridged

By: Laura Esquivel
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of... Read more

The Lonesome Bodybuilder

Stories

By: Yukiko Motoya
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Richard Powers, Tanya Eby, Kate Mulligan & various narrators
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“Yukiko Motoya takes the mundane and brilliantly spikes it with the fantastical, the aberrant, and the all-out unexpected. These stories tilt the axis of reality by degrees, deftly inverting scenes of both solitude and cohabitation, pitting the personal against the domestic. Amid increasingly splashy motifs, The Lonesome Bodybuilder asks how we... Read more

Eartheater

A Novel

By: Dolores Reyes
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

“This an example of a beautifully translated work with a gripping concept. The main character’s compulsion to eat earth felt visceral, the writing enigmatically lyrical. I couldn’t put it down, yet I had to force myself to absorb this book painfully slowly, so as to not let it pass me by. Read more

The Trouble with Happiness

And Other Stories

By: Tove Ditlevsen
Narrated by: Stine Wintlev
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

The Trouble with Happiness is a short-story collection from Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, never before translated in English

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife’s beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of... Read more

Beowulf: A New Translation

By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“Narrated by JD Jackson. Sooo good! I listened to to this book 3x.!!! Beautiful! Read more

The Queue

By: Basma Abdel Aziz
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

"The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab Spring." -- The New York Times

Winner of the English PEN... Read more

Vernon Subutex 1

A Novel

Vernon Subutex: Book #1

By: Virginie Despentes
Narrated by: Christopher Harper
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

“The sad, brutal, and logical progression of so many '90s types. Vernon Subutex is about how the cool lifestyle of youth isn't sustainable and how one can find the changes in the world leaving them with little space to live in it. And as a writer, Despentes is absolutely fearless. Read more

Aetherial Worlds

Stories

By: Tatyana Tolstaya
Narrated by: Anya Migdal
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“Playful and poetic . . . A foxy, original writer. Memory fuses with wonder, and wonder with worship." —The Wall Street Journal

“Marvelously vivid, perfectly tuned. . . Tolstaya is well known in Russia as a brilliant and caustic political critic, but her memories of her Soviet childhood have a tender, personal quality.”  —The New York Times Book... Read more

Ru

By: Kim Thuy
Narrated by: Kim Thuy
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Ru est composé de très courts récits liés un peu comme dans une ritournelle : la première phrase du chapitre reprend le plus souvent l’idée qui terminait le chapitre précédent, permettant ainsi de faire le pont entre tous les événements que la narratrice a connus : sa naissance au Vietnam pendant la guerre, la fuite avec les boat people, son... Read more

In the Distance With You

By: Carla Guelfenbein
Narrated by: Robert Fass & Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

This Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three lives intertwined with that of an enigmatic author, whose character is inspired by the groundbreaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.



Vera Sigall, now eighty years old, has lived a mysterious, ascetic life far from the limelight of literary circles. This powerful character has a profound... Read more

The Vegetarian

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Janet Song & Stephen Park
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A KIRKUS... Read more

The Birdwoman's Palate

By: Laksmi Pamuntjak
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

In this exhilarating culinary novel, a woman’s road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies.Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Aruna is asked to research a handful of isolated bird flu... Read more

Love in Case of Emergency

A Novel

By: Daniela Krien
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

""Fans of Sarah Dunn, Elisabeth Egan, and Isabel Gillies will relate to the multifaceted lives of Krien’s characters, brilliantly rendered in her vivid voice."" -- Booklist
Writing with the wry realism of Sally Rooney, one of Germany’ most promising literary talents demonstrates her incisive understanding of the complexities of relationships and... Read more

Terminal Boredom

Stories

By: Izumi Suzuki
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

The first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon.



At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina.... Read more

The Night Singer

A Novel

The Island Murders: Book #1

By: Johanna Mo
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

The #1 international crime series from Sweden!

An island never forgets -- especially if you're the daughter of a murderer

Police detective Hannah Duncker didn’t expect to return to her native Öland. She fled after her father’s murder conviction and returns to make peace with her shame. She has a new job with the local police and a nosy new... Read more

My Brilliant Life

By: Ae-ran Kim
Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

“A moving, earnest, and deeply-felt exploration of a unique family in all its joys and disappointments . . . an utter delight.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had

Ae-ran Kim's My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit... Read more

Breasts and Eggs

By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jeena Yi
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist. Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a... Read more

Consent

A Memoir

By: Vanessa Springora
Narrated by: Anne-Marie Piazza
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

 “Consent” is a Molotov cocktail, flung at the face of the French establishment, a work of dazzling, highly controlled fury...By every conceivable metric, her book is a triumph.” -- The New York Times Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl’s relationship with a famous, much... Read more

Sanaaq

An Inuit Novel

Contemporary Studies on the North: Book #4

By: Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk
Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Sanaaq is an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century. Composed in 48 episodes, it recounts the daily life of Sanaaq, a strong and outspoken young widow, her daughter Qumaq, and their small semi-nomadic community in... Read more