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Everything Is Illuminated , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 695min
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr., Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Woodman, Scott Shina. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pauk/000742/bk_pauk_000742_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Newark Black: 1940-1954 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 5min
Newark Black is a short story from the collection New Jersey Noir, featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White and Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano. From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: "...The most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances - of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ice T. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019844/bk_adbl_019844_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Everything Is Illuminated (eBook, ePUB)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut??-??"e;a funny, moving...deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible."e; (Time)With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man??-??also named Jonathan Safran Foer??-??sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape and into an unexpected past. As their adventure unfolds, Jonathan imagines the history of his grandfather's village, conjuring a magical fable of startling symmetries that unite generations across time. As his search moves back in time, the fantastical history moves forward, until reality collides with fiction in a heart-stopping scene of extraordinary power. "e;Imagine a novel as verbally cunning as A Clockwork Orange, as harrowing as The Painted Bird, as exuberant and twee as Candide, and you have Everything Is Illuminated . . . Read it, and you'll feel altered, chastened??-??seared in the fire of something new."e; ??-?? Washington Post "e;A rambunctious tour de force of inventive and intelligent storytelling . . . Foer can place his reader's hand on the heart of human experience, the transcendent beauty of human connections. Read, you can feel the life beating."e; ??-?? Philadelphia Inquirer- Shop: buecher
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Performing Authorship
Performing Authorship ab 39.99 € als pdf eBook: Strategies of »Becoming an Author« in the Works of Paul Auster Candice Breitz Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Fachthemen & Wissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft,- Shop: hugendubel
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The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 665min
What is death and how does it touch upon life? Twenty writers look for answers.Birth is not inevitable. Life certainly isn't. The sole inevitability of existence, the only sure consequence of being alive, is death.In these eloquent and surprising essays, 20 writers face this fact. Among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art-porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality. Other contributors include Annie Dillard, Diane Ackerman, Peter Straub, and Brenda Hillman. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Maloney, Kim Stryker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/222556/bk_acx0_222556_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 428min
Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter is not just the first anthology gathering both mini-essays and short-short stories. Listeners, writers, and teachers will get an anthology; a course’s worth of writing exercises; a rally for compression, concision, and velocity in an increasingly digital post-religious age; and a meditation on the brevity of human existence.1. We are mortal beings.2. There is no God.3. We live in a digital culture.4. Art is related to the body and to culture.5. Art should reflect these things.6. Brevity rules.The book’s 40 contributors include Donald Barthelme, Kate Chopin, Lydia Davis, Annie Dillard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Jamaica Kincaid, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anne Lamott, Daphne Merkin, Rick Moody, Dinty W. Moore, George Orwell, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Saunders, Lauren Slater, James Tate, and Paul Theroux. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Maloney. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234652/bk_acx0_234652_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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To the Best of Our Knowledge: Epic Fail, Hörbuch, Digital, 51min
Nobody wants to fail. But maybe we’ve got the idea of failure all wrong. Maybe it's not something to avoid, but something to strive for. In this hour, Sarah Lewis talks with Anne Strainchamps about her book, The Rise: Creativity, The Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery. Next, Eric Jarosinski talks with Steve Paulson about his transformation from a self-described "failed intellectual" to Twitter's lovable and popular misanthrope. Then, Frank Pavich talks about his new documentary, Jodorowsky's Dune, which chronicles filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's failed quest to make what could have been one of the greatest science-fiction movies ever. After that, Nicola Griffith recommends Robin McKinley's The Blue Sword. Finally, the World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re his book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. [Broadcast Date: June 11, 2014] Language: English. Narrator: Jim Fleming. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/rt/tbon/140611/rt_tbon_140611_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written. The Washington Post Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of the Jewish people, the matriarch of America s leading literary family, an eloquent defender of the proposition that memory matters. And now, a riveting memoirist. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The AtlanticNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR Esther Safran Foer grew up in a home where the past was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust loomed in the backdrop of daily life, felt but never discussed. The result was a childhood marked by painful silences and continued tragedy. Even as she built a successful career, married, and raised three children, Esther always felt herself searching.So when Esther s mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust Esther resolves to find out who they were, and how her father survived. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and a hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds reshapes her identity and gives her the opportunity to finally mourn.I Want You to Know We re Still Here is the poignant and deeply moving story not only of Esther s journey but of four generations living in the shadow of the Holocaust. They are four generations of survivors, storytellers, and memory keepers, determined not just to keep the past alive but to imbue the present with life and more life.- Shop: buecher
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New Jersey Noir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 554min
Featuring brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano. From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates: "...The most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances - of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir. This audiobook is narrated by Robin Miles, Christian Rummel, Ice T, Jeff Woodman, David Ledoux, Nick Sullivan, Kevin T. Collins, Kevin Free, Scott Aiello, Suzanne Toren, Johnny Heller, Jennifer Van Dyck, Christina Delaine, Anthony Bowden, Carol Monda, John McLain, Vikas Adam and Joe Barrett. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robin Miles, Kevin T. Collins, Kevin Free, Scott Aiello, Jennifer Van Dyck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014652/bk_adbl_014652_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Alles ist erleuchtet, Hörbuch, Digital, 691min
Ein junger Amerikaner kommt in die Ukraine. Er heißt zufällig Jonathan Safran Foer. Im Gepäck hat er das vergilbte Foto einer Frau namens Augustine. Sie soll gegen Ende des 2. Weltkrieges seinen Großvater vor den Nazis gerettet haben. Jonathan will Augustine finden und Trachimbrod, den Ort, aus dem seine Familie stammt. Sein Reiseführer ist ein alter Ukrainer mit einem noch älteren klapprigen Auto, sein Dolmetscher dessen Enkel Alex, ein unglaubliches Großmaul und ein Genie im Verballhornen von Sprache. Mit von der Partie ist noch Sammy Davis jr. jr., eine neurotische Promenadenmischung mit einer Leidenschaft für Jonathan, der Angst vor Hunden hat. Die Reise führt durch eine verwüstete Gegend und in eine Zeit des Grauens. Alex berichtet in seiner unnachahmlichen Sprache von den Abenteuern und irrsinnigen Missverständnissen während dieser Fahrt, Jonathan erzählt die phantastische Geschichte Trachimbrods bis zum furchtbaren Ende, und der alte Ukrainer begegnet den Gespenstern seiner Vergangenheit. Alex und Jonathan aber sind zum Schluss der Reise Freunde geworden. deutsch. Uve Teschner. https://samples.audible.de/bk/argo/000796/bk_argo_000796_sample.mp3.- Shop: Audible
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