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Under the Jaguar Sun
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Narrator
- Jefferson Mays
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 17 May 2019
- Run Time
- 2 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
These intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses of taste, hearing, and smell. Amid the flavors of Mexico’s fiery chiles and spices, a couple on holiday discovers dark truths about the maturing of desire in the title story, “Under the Jaguar Sun.” In “A King Listens,” a gripping portrait
of a frenzied mind, the menacing echoes in a huge palace spur a tyrant’s thoughts to the heights of paranoid intensity. “The Name, the Nose” drives to a startling conclusion as men across time and space pursue the women whose aromas have enchanted them.
Mordant and deliciously offbeat, this trio of tales is a treat from a master of short fiction.
“[Calvino is] a learned, daring, ingeniously gifted magus … Under the Jaguar Sun … fuses fable with neuron … The reader is likely to salivate.”—New York Times Book Review
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- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Narrator
- Jefferson Mays
- Duration
- 2 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 May 2019
- ISBN
- 9781501963667
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
“The thought … called up the flavors of an elaborate and bold cuisine, bent on making the flavors’ highest notes vibrate, juxtaposing them in modulations, in chords, and especially in dissonances that would assert themselves as an incomparable experience.”—from Under the Jaguar SunThese intoxicating stories delve down to the core of our senses of taste, hearing, and smell. Amid the flavors of Mexico’s fiery chiles and spices, a couple on holiday discovers dark truths about the maturing of desire in the title story, “Under the Jaguar Sun.” In “A King Listens,” a gripping portrait of a frenzied mind, the menacing echoes in a huge palace spur a tyrant’s thoughts to the heights of paranoid intensity. “The Name, the Nose” drives to a startling conclusion as men across time and space pursue the women whose aromas have enchanted them. Mordant and deliciously offbeat, this trio of tales is a treat from a master of short fiction.“[Calvino is] a learned, daring, ingeniously gifted magus … Under the Jaguar Sun … fuses fable with neuron … The reader is likely to salivate.”—New York Times Book Review
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