8 artistic audiobooks with a summer mood

1. "My Brilliant Friend", Elena Ferrante

• Reader: Svetlana Kuznetsova.
• Duration: 10 hours 57 minutes.

This book is the first part of the "Neapolitan Quartet" by the Italian Elena Ferrante. He talks about his friends Lena and Lila. In the first novel in the series, the heroines are first children, then teenagers. This is a preface to their adult life, but it is important, because thanks to it we understand why they become the way they are.

Not the last role in this is played by the events in Italy: the story begins in the 50s, a few years after the fall of the fascist regime.

The life of Lenu and Lila is not cloudless, so the reader is waiting for not only positive emotions. But walking along with the heroines along the hot streets of Naples, the abundance of the sun definitely create a summer mood.

2. Manyunya, Narine Abgaryan

• Reader: Elena Shulman.
• Duration: 10 hours 21 minutes.

This is a story about a girl Nara, her friend Manyun, as well as about their relatives and friends who live in the Armenian city of Berd.

This book is about children, but perhaps not entirely children's. It's more for adults yearning for the time when they ran through the dusty streets in the summer, broke their knees and got scolded by their grandmothers. And in the work is full of incidental situations and jokes.

3. "Three Men in a Boat, Not Counting the Dog" by Jerome K. Jerome

• Reader: Dmitry Shabrov.
• Duration: 7 hours 46 minutes.

The book tells about the journey of three friends (and a dog, of course) along the Thames. Initially, the work was supposed to be a guide, but turned into a hilariously funny story. Despite the fact that it was written at the end of the 19th century, many events make you smile, because it is easy to recognize yourself in their participants.

4. "Hearts of Three", Jack London

• Reader: Oleg Isaev.
• Duration: 15 hours 53 minutes.

This is the fiftieth anniversary novel by Jack London, which he wrote specifically so that one day he could film. And even if the film studios were not immediately interested in him, it turned out quite in the format of films that are usually shown in the summer. This is a full of events, but not at all straining narrative.

London was accused by critics of having "Hearts of Three" full of self-repetitions. But if you do not read the collected works of the author in its entirety, but immediately listen to this novel, pleasure is guaranteed. There is a treasure hunt, love triangles and, most importantly, a lot of sun.

5. The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald

• Reader: Vyacheslav Manylov.
• Duration: 8 hours 56 minutes.

Nick, to escape the heat of the city, rented a house in an area where rich villas are located. But the real heat was waiting for him there.

The book's title character, Jay Gatsby, lives nearby and is very wealthy. But money don't make him happybecause they are not a goal for him, but a means to get close to the love of his life.

6. The Book and Potato Peel Pie Club by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

• Readers: Alexey Bagdasarov, Natalia Kaznacheeva, Anna Kamenkova, Marina Lisovets, Grigory Perel, Efim Shifrin, Yulia Yablonskaya.
• Duration: 8 hours 12 minutes.

The Second World War ended not long ago. In London, the writer receives a letter from a resident of the island of Guernsey. The hero tells that her work fell into his hands, and asks for advice on a good bookstore. On the island with literature is not very good, it is being restored after the occupation by the Germans. And during the war, there was a book club, which appeared under unusual circumstances.

The writer is interested in the history of the organization, and she goes on a journey to personally meet its members.

7. "White Nights", Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Reader: Pyotr Korshunkov.
• Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes.

This is a love story that began on a summer night in Petersburg. The story is short, so any attempt to describe the plot will contain spoilers. And the story spans four nights and one morning. But "White Nights" is worth listening to, if only because here Dostoevsky's prose differs from what we are used to from his later works written after hard labor.

8. "Twelve Chairs", Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov

• Reader: Arkady Bukhmin.
• Duration: 13 hours 55 minutes.

A satirical adventurous novel about the great strategist Ostap Bender and his companion Kis Vorobyaninov, who are hunting for treasure - what could be better for a vacation? Is that its continuation of the "Golden Calf". It is worth listening to the book even for those who have already read it or know it almost by heart. movie. With each new contact, it opens up with new facets.