Consumed: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

“An eye-opening dazzler” (Stephen Ruler) in regards to a couple of globetrotting, gore-obsessed journalists whose entanglement within a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal trip into global conspiracy from legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg.

Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive around the yellow journalism from the social-media age. Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines encircling a famous couple, Célestine and Aristide, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine offers about Consumed: A Book been found dead, and Aristide provides disappeared. Police believe him of killing her and consuming elements of her body. Yet Naomi sets off to discover him, and as she delves deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers the news story may just skim the surface of the disturbing functions they performed together.

Journalist Nathan, in the mean time, is within Budapest photographing the controversial function of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, once sought by Interpol for body organ trafficking. After sleeping with among Molnár’s patients, Nathan contracts a uncommon STD called Roiphe’s and moves to Toronto, decided to meet the person who found out the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan discovers, now research his very own adult girl, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.

These parallel narratives become entwined inside a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible amount of varieties, sex. Consumed is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors, a author of “fierce sculptural strength” (Jonathan Lethem, THE BRAND NEW York Times Book Review) who helps it be “difficult to look aside” (Web publishers Weekly).