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May Edit: Audiobooks We Can’t Forget

May Edit: Audiobooks We Can’t Forget

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This is a two-some story!

Me, Susie: I produce audiobooks, a lot of them. I have my little favorites! People know about my big bestsellers, but I wish you knew about the sleepers.

Willow Pennell: I work with Susie on all the reading and listening that comes through our office. I have my pets, too. We’re both, um, highly opinionated. Wanna get an earful?

Wûf

By Kemal Varol (Author), Dayla Rogers (Translator) 

I'm listening to this right now! Wûf is an observation of war from a dog's eye view: bystanders caught in the crossfire.

The characters are funny, real— and so canine. Think Watership Down through a street urchin's eyes.NPoetic and profane!

Narration by Fajer Al-Kaisi is stunning, a natural storyteller. —Willow

Producer Notes:

I found this awesome novel because I met “The Center for Middle Eastern Studies,” a publisher who’s changed my reading life. The editors told me the publication of Wûf turned Turkey upside down. Everyone knew the “dog hero” was the symbol of an existential c…

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