Runaway teen Annabel, nicknamed Ghost, doesn’t speak. Her interaction with her world is limited to how well she can convey her wants and feelings to others, and how intuitive others are in interpreting her expressions and gestures....
Mute persons
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Author:Wissing, CarolineSummary: -
Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami'a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the...
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Author:Michaelides, AlexSummary:"An unforgettable-and Hollywood-bound-new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." - Entertainment Weekly. The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of...
- Author:Kraus, Daniel, Toro, Guillermo delSummary:
*Winner of the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture* Visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel Kraus combine their estimable talent in this haunting, heartbreaking audiobook. The...
- Author:Duhaime, GérardSummary:
Willie, le garçon à l’anorak, s’est enfermé dans le mutisme, loin des adultes qui l’ont trahi. Entre les bosquets et les ruisseaux de la toundra, tandis que se joue en silence le sort de la terre meurtrie, il fera connaissance avec des...
- Author:Baniahmadi, BaharanSummary:
An unflinching allegorical novel that explores trauma, women's rights, and religious tradition. In the slums of Tehran, seven-year-old Sara witnesses the horrific murder of her sister Setayesh, an event leaves her in shock and...
- Author:Gilligan, RuthSummary:
At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution...
- Author:Crewe, PaddySummary:
It's 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia. Mute, medical anomaly, and social outcast Yip Tolroy is born. His father has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother, a powerful,...
- Author:Anderson, JamesSummary:
Ben Jones, protagonist of the glowingly reviewed Never-Open Desert Diner, returns in a devastatingly powerful literary crime novel about parenthood, loss, and the desert in winter. Winter has come to Highway 117, a remote road through...
- Author:Anske, KseniaSummary:
"My mama became a catfish when I was two, on the day I stopped talking." Neglected since birth by her mother, Irina Myshko hasn’t spoken a word for most of her short Soviet life. Outcast as a mute idiot and abused by her mother's...
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Author:Saniee, Parinoush, Kalantari, SanamSummary:This is the story, based on fact, of a boy who couldn’t speak until the age of seven. Now twenty, he describes the events of his life.Four-year-old Shahaab has not started talking. The family doctor believes there is no cause for...
- Author:Kang, Han.Summary:
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A dazzling novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the "visionary" ( New York Times Book Review ) author of the International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian...
- Author:Anderson, CatherineSummary:
Loretta Simpson lost her parents to a daring Comanche raid seven years ago--and now she lives as a mute with her extended family. Meanwhile, Comanche Hunter of the Wolf sees her as the embodiment of an ancient prophesy and chooses her...
- Author:Stage, ZojeSummary:
From blazing new talent Zoje Stage, Baby Teeth is an audiobook about a perfect-looking family, and a darling little girl who wants nothing more than to kill her mother. Praise for Baby Teeth: "We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Gone Girl...
- Author:Hitchman, BeatriceSummary:
From an acclaimed and powerful talent in historical fiction, a literary historical novel set in a bohemian enclave of Vienna about love, freedom, and what constitutes a familySet in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, All of You Every Single One...
