Audio Books by Nobel Prize Winners

A Mercy
Author/Reader: Toni Morrison, Toni Morrison

The horror of slavery colors everyone involved in this tale of early America. Jacob receives young Florens as partial payment for a bad debt. But that's just the beginning of this disturbing story of a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and of a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment. Winner of a Listen Up award from Publishers Weekly. By the Nobel laureate. "[She] holds the listener completely in thrall through her narrative, her characters, her language, and her own fine reading."—Publishers Weekly
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Unabridged, 5 CDs, Fiction-Modern, Historical, M7R254, 9780739332542, $29.95
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My Name Is Red
Author: Orhan Pamuk, translated by Erdag Goknar, Reader: John Lee

In 16th-century Istanbul, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life, to be illuminated by the finest artists. But any work of art – an affront to Islam – is dangerous. When one of the artists is murdered, the only clue lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves. By the Nobel laureate. "Masterful. With multiple voices weighing in on blasphemy, passion, art, and repression, John Lee's solid performance makes this work a splendid fit for audio."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 16 CDs, Fiction-Modern, Historical, M9R9241, 9780739369241, $39.95
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Malone Dies
Author: Samuel Beckett, Reader: Sean Barrett

In this classic tale that focuses on humanity's absurd existence, an old man lies dying. As he waits, he constructs stories to pass the time. Various figures from his life weave in and out of his vision and his imagination. By the Nobel Prize laureate. "An incomparable spellbinder... a serious writer with something serious to say about the human condition."—The New York Times

Unabridged, 5 CDs, Fiction-Classic, F5E319, 9789626343197, $34.99
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Molloy
Author: Samuel Beckett, Readers: Sean Barrett and Dermit Crowley

This first book in Beckett's trilogy is a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy (who's looking for his mother) and his pursuer Moran. This tale, raising the questions of being and aloneness, is richly comic as well, one of the masterpieces of Irish literature. By the Nobel Prize laureate. "The distinct readings lend the book a dramatic presence... in audio this work takes on the full richness of comedy."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 7 CDs, Fiction-Modern, F7E292, 9789626342923, $47.99
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Our Choice
Author: Al Gore, Readers: Cynthia Nixon and John Slattery

A blueprint for the changes we can and must make to save the environment. Part scientific manual, part exposé, part visionary call for a new, planet-wide, political movement, this audiobook shows how individuals can solve the problemof global warming. A sequel to An Inconvenient Truth by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Vice President.

Abridged, 6 CDs, Science, Ecology, E4P204, 9780743572040, Now $29.99 $23.99
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Peeling the Onion
Author: Günter Grass, Reader: Norman Dietz

This memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum takes us from his boyhood, to his wartime service in the Waffen SS, through the late 1950s. Revealing himself at his most intimate, he writes of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of 1950s Paris. "Powerfully evocative memories... spellbinding."—Publishers Weekly

Unabridged, 12 CDs, Biography, Writers, E9X506, 9781400105069, Now $37.99 $24.69
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Penguin Island
Author: Anatole France, Reader: Frederick Davidson

Who knew that a priest's bad eyes could cause such a fracas in Heaven? When myopic Abbot Mael visits an island populated by penguins, the tuxedoed birds look like people to him, so he baptizes them. Instantly, God and the saints battle with each other, worried that only creatures with souls can be baptized – so do penguins have souls? By the Nobel laureate. "Very fine... This was considered his masterpiece."—AudioFile

Unabridged, 7 cassettes, Fiction-Classic, F7B673, 9780786116737, Now $49.95 $44.95
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