Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in World Literature

WINNER OF THE PEN/OPEN BOOK AWARD AND THE HIGH PLAINS BOOK AWARD ● For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Maile Meloy, a collection of stories about Indian immigrants in the rural American West full of “such grace and understated power that you know you are in the presence of an incredible new...

A bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween niece’s private confession to the reader—she and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. "I have been waiting for Nina McConigley's debut novel for years and it's even better than I...

WINNER OF THE ASIAN AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE IN ADULT FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is...

Smoke & Mirrors is the third book from internationally bestselling poet Michael Faudet, author of Bitter Sweet Love and Dirty Pretty Things--both finalists in the 2016 and 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards. Michael Faudet's latest book takes the listener on an emotionally charged journey...

One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vulture This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality “Impossible to stop reading” —Vulture When Lucien flees Haiti with...

A thrilling tale of post-World War II London where the peace proves as tricky to navigate as the past, from the #1 international bestselling author of Life After Life. When foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn returns to Britain in 1949 from Singapore, he takes a quiet office...

A propulsive and utterly original debut about a young chef chasing her dreams—and the pro wrestler she idolizes who derails everything How far will you go to feed your ambitions? Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as well be invisible. The...

A mother and daughter must break their family’s curse through trials of war and immigration, love, loss, and redemption in this riveting multi-generational saga with a shimmer of magic, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Forgery of Fate. 1940s Hong Kong When Japanese soldiers...

The bonds between six women undergoing IVF are tested when one announces an unexpected birth in this absorbing, candid novel about what women endure to become mothers Outside the chat, they had different jobs, personalities, financial backgrounds, but inside, they were all mothers-to-be...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a sizzling noir about desire, danger, and greed, in which seduction is the ultimate con. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People, Book Riot, Southern Living Handsome con artist...

Translated for the first time into English, this richly textured novel by "the shining light of Catalan literature" (Colm Tóibín), follows one young woman's homecoming, as she navigates love, friendship, ambition and betrayal in a Barcelona on the brink of revolution—with an introduction by...

The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope "Generations are captured here, loss and pain and miraculous attempt at renewal. A beautiful work." —Nana Kwame...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, AND THE PRIX...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE NBCC BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK...

A stunning debut novel set in and around a Mumbai fishing village that follows the friendship between a young girl struggling to find her place in the world, and an aging historian reckoning with his past. ​On the night his granddaughter is born in America, Professor Francis Almeida rides a...

An Indigenous woman adopted by white parents goes in search of her identity in this unforgettable debut novel about family, race, and history. Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award “Engaging . . . Ruby never disappoints with her big heart and outrageous sense of humor—and...

Mississippi, im Jahr 1933. Die Wirtschaftskrise hält die Welt in Atem. Doch als der brütend heiße Sommer allmählich in den Herbst übergeht, verbündet sich im kleinen Städtchen Oxford eine Gruppe von Frauen – einige aus der besseren Gesellschaft, ein paar auf kriminellen Abwegen. Während sich die einen an die Fantasie vergangener Tage klammern, fühlen sich die anderen durch ihre Verzweiflung bestärkt. Sie streben nach Macht, klettern in der Gesellschaft der Südstaaten nach oben oder gehen erstaunliche Risiken ein, koste es, was es wolle.

From the multi award-winning author of An American Immigrant comes the story of a woman walking through paralyzing grief and the unlikely friendship that might unlock a path to healing. Leaving behind the only city she’s known, Sandra and her family move from New York City to East Nashville...

The Pulitzer Prize winner’s final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for “His hands strip poetry to its nub.” —Los Angeles Times “Reading [Wright] is like...