Hispanic Heritage Month - Historical Fiction
By: Gabriel García Márquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán, Roxanne Hernandez, Marcelo Tubert, Thom Rivera
Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
Some of the most Non-Story short stories I’ve encountered
A Novel
By: Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson / Narrated By: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
Fiction with plot devices, imagery, magical lyricism? No. History and Love defined and lived? Yessss!
By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
A time long past with lush prose that skirts on flowery, but dude! was our hero a creep, or what?!
By: José Saramago / Translated By: Margaret Jull Costa / Narrated By: Christine Williams
Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
Lovely, tho’ quite bittersweet
By: Jaime Manrique / Narrated By: Roger Wayne
Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
Hmmm… I have the feeling that this COULD’ve been great… except for the dratted narration!
By: Carolina De Robertis / Narrated By: Christine Avila
Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
Gorgeous writing of bad men and strong, er, kinda sorta strong women
A Novel
By: Carlos Fuentes/ Translated By: Alfred MacAdam / Narrated By: Tony Chiroldes
Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
Amazing events in Mexico’s history… as told by a total jerk!
By: Rudolfo Anaya / Narrated By: Robert Ramirez
Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
Narration adds much-needed levity to what could be a heavy book
By: Julia Alvarez / Narrated By: Noemi de la Puente, Alma Cuervo, Bianca Carnacho, Melanie Martinez
Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
…Wow… what can I say, but Wow…?
By: Sofía Segovia / Translated By: Simon Bruni / Narrated By: Xe Sands, Angelo Di Loreto
Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
Absolutely beautiful translation of a gorgeous piece of literary fiction