If you no longer know what to invent to fill your days of isolation, “Ad Alta Voce”, the largest Italian audiobook library, comes to your aid. From The Betrothed to Frankestein, from Pinocchio to Raymond Carver, with its 200 titles, including novels and short stories, Ad Alta Voce and, in fact, the largest Italian audiobook library. Live on Radio3 frequencies, from Monday to Friday at 5.00 pm, replicated at night at 1.30 pm, but can also be listened to whenever you want in streaming or downloadable in podcast. The best Italian actresses and actors, from Toni Servillo, to Anna Bonaiuto and Elio de Capitani, give voice to the pages of the world’s literatures.
In order not to get lost in the tide of titles, we have chosen five audio books for you, perfect for starting your journey through the literature of all centuries. Dear Michele by Natalia Ginzburg
Read by Anna Bonaiuto
Among the audio books we recommend there is a beautiful novel by Natalia Ginzburg. “Dear Michael”, the most classic of the epistolary incipits and the one that Natalia Ginzburg chooses as the title of her novel. A mother already advanced in years but still young and a son physically distant and even more distant in ideas, needs, affections and pains. A son for whom the mother feels a grudge, but from which she cannot break away; and the last, indispensable umbilical cord and made up of letters only. One hundred years of solitude– by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Read by Ermanna Montanari , Piero Baldini , Manuela Mandracchia , Marco Foschi , Chiara Guidi , Peppe Servillo , Valentina Carnelutti , Elio De Capitani . Translation by Enrico Cicogna .
Among the recommended audio books, here is a great classic of world literature: One Hundred Years of Solitude. Grandeur and decadence of the city of Macondo and the Buendia family, in an exciting succession of fabulous and grotesque events between history and legend. A novel that brings a new breath into world literature, opening Europe to South American fiction. Christ Stopped in Eboli by Carlo Levi
Read by Elio de Capitani
The peculiarity of Carlo Levi lies in this: that he is the witness of the presence of another time within our time, and the ambassador of another world within our world. The protagonist of Christ stopped at Eboli and a man committed to history who finds himself in the heart of a witchcraft, magical South, and sees that what were for him the reasons at stake here are no longer valid, other reasons are at stake , other oppositions at the same time more complex and more elementary. The Indifferents by Alberto Moravia
Read by Toni Servillo
When Alberto Moravia began to write this masterpiece, in 1925, he had not yet turned eighteen. Around him Italy, on which Mussolini had imposed the dictatorship, was forgetting the outbreak of indignation and rebellion aroused in 1924 by the Matteotti crime and was sliding towards consensus and plebiscites for fascism. The young Moravia was not interested in politics, but the portrait he made of a twenty-year-old man at the time involved in the collapse of a bourgeois family and the whole country was to remain memorable. Fascism raises the modern trap of indifference to an absolute existential condition. White Nights by Fedor Michajlov Dostoevskij
Read by Alessandro Benvenuti
A Russian could not be missing from the recommended audiobooks. That is, Dostoevsky’s “White Nights”. A young dreamer, completely immersed in a world dominated by feelings and fantasies, has his first contact with reality when, during one of his solitary summer walks, he runs into a girl in tears. The unknown woman will become for him an anchor towards the real world, made up of expectations, hopes and disappointments. The city of St. Petersburg is the background in which, over the course of four nights, the two protagonists of this short story share the stories of their lives. The new audiobooks to listen to exclusively on Storytel
180 new audiobooks to listen to from the Mondadori Group arrived on Storytel starting from April 1st, including great modern classics and bestsellers
