Velorio (Spanish edition) Audiobook, by Xavier Navarro Aquino Play Audiobook Sample

Velorio (Spanish edition) Audiobook

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Read By: Yetta Gottesman, Vico Ortiz, Jesus E. Martinez, Maria Victoria Martinez, Diana Pou, Gabriel S. Rivera Vázquez, Gil René Rodríguez Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063071520

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

38

Longest Chapter Length:

39:43 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

03 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

13:34 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

«En esta novela, la catástrofe se cuenta con precisión de cronista y belleza poética. Sus voces transcurren entre el tono íntimo y devastador de un diario del desastre y la mirada colectiva de la memoria que ve la esperanza en el linaje de resistencias que han enfrentado al poder desde tiempos ancestrales. Xavier Navarro Aquino nos entrega así una primera novela sobre el huracán que marcó un antes y un después en la historia de la isla». Joel Cintrón Arbasetti, periodista y autor de El Local y Sobre un animal muerto

Es septiembre de 2017 y el huracán María acaba de arrasar con Puerto Rico. Camila se siente perturbada por la muerte de su hermana, Marisol. Todo empezó cuando le arrancó un pedacito, el meñique que sobresalía del fango, tras el deslizamiento de tierra que se la llevó. Incapaz de desprenderse de ella, Camila carga con su cuerpo hasta llegar al supuesto paraíso perdido llamado «Memoria».

Urayoán, el profeta soñador pero peligroso de Memoria, tiene planes para su nueva sociedad: aspira a un nuevo orden tras el abandono del Gobierno. El paraíso que predica seduce a jóvenes de toda la isla, entre ellos a Pescao, Moriviví y Banto. Todos ellos tendrán que navegar el ascenso entre llamas del tirano Urayoán y enfrentarse a sus impulsos macabros para poder reclamar su hogar, una isla estremecida tanto por el paso impetuoso de María como por la violencia humana.

Velorio es la ansiada y desgarradora novela poshuracán que despierta nuestros miedos más profundos, pero que apela también a la voluntad y la fuerza de todo un pueblo a la hora de enfrentarnos a los corruptos en poder.

Xavier Navarro Aquino nació y se crió en Puerto Rico. Sus obras han sido publicadas en las revistas literarias Tin House, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern y Guernica. Ha recibido numerosas becas de parte de Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference y la prestigiosa MacDowell Fellowship. Cursó su maestría en Estudios Caribeños en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, recinto de Río Piedras, y tiene un doctorado en Literatura Inglesa en la Universidad de Nebraska-Lincoln. Actualmente, es profesor asociado en el programa de maestría en Inglés de la Universidad de Notre Dame.

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Awards

  • Finalist for the Audie Award for Best Narration in Spanish

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About Xavier Navarro Aquino

Xavier Navarro Aquino is an author whose fiction has appeared in Tin HouseMcSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Guernica. He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a MacDowell Fellowship, and an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship at Dartmouth College. He is an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches in the MFA degree program. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico.

About the Narrators

Yetta Gottesman, an audiobook narrator, actor, and director of Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage, was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brazil. She is completely fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. She is a lifetime member of the prestigious Actors Studio and LAByrinth Theater Company.

Qarie Marshall is an Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has narrated more than thirty series for the Discovery Channel, TLC, and the BBC, as well as providing the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines and BBC radio plays. He has voiced over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox and was a guest voice on Comedy Central’s Drawn Together. He was made an associate artist of the Purple Rose Theatre in 2007.

Iva-Marie Palmer is the author of The Summers and The End of the World as We Know It. She grew up in Chicago’s south suburbs and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

Yetta Gottesman, an audiobook narrator, actor, and director of Puerto Rican and Jewish heritage, was born in Puerto Rico and raised in Brazil. She is completely fluent in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. She is a lifetime member of the prestigious Actors Studio and LAByrinth Theater Company.