The Prince of the Skies

Name: The Prince of the Skies
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Antonio Iturbe
ISBN: 9781250819826

Author: Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites

Narrator: Simon Bubb

Unabridged: 17 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Published: 11/02/2021

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

A gripping narrative of friendship and exploration, and an homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an unforgettable writer who touched the lives of millions of readers and listeners, and who was able to see the world through the eyes of a child.

In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too far and no mountain too high—each letter had to reach its destination. The three friends soared through the air, while back on solid ground, they dealt with a world torn apart by wars and political factions.

A Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel & Friends

About Antonio Iturbe

Antonio Iturbe is a novelist and journalist. He interviewed Dita Kraus, the real-life librarian of Auschwitz, for The Librarian of Auschwitz. His other books include The Prince of the Skies.

About Lilit Thwaites

Lilit Žekulin Thwaites is an award-winning Melbourne-based literary translator (Spanish>English), and an honorary research fellow in contemporary Spanish literature at La Trobe University. Her book-length translations include the bestselling The Librarian of Auschwitz (Antonio Iturbe, 2017), Australian Connection (multiple authors, 2019), and two futuristic novels by Rosa Montero, Tears in Rain (2012), and Weight of the Heart. (2016). Her translations of short stories, essays and the occasional poem have been published in journals and anthologies. She presents sessions at writers’ festivals, gives talks on Spain-related and translation topics, and organises visits to Australia by Spanish-speaking writers. In 2016, she was awarded Spain’s Order of Civil Merit for her promotion of Spanish culture in Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellie

I want to start my review by admitting that although I always read the blurb of a book before deciding whether to read it, I often forget what the book is about before I’m able to read it. That is exactly what happened to me with this book, and it created quite an unusual experience for me. The Princ......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn Marie

The Little Prince has been an all time favorite of mine for many many years now! I always wondered about the life of its author/aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. That’s why I was so thrilled to find this book, which is dedicated to telling the life of Saint-Ex himself! When I love a book, one of my......more

Goodreads review by Lady Clementina

My thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for a review copy of this book. While I’ve read The Little Prince many times, and find it an endearing read, full of little nuggets of wisdom, I knew very little about its author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, except that he was an aristocrat, a pilot, and an auth......more

Goodreads review by Gill

This spellbinding novel revolves around Antoine De Saint-Expéry, author of children’s classic The Little Prince, who was also a pioneer of aviation and helped to open up postal routes across Africa and South America. The scrapes he and his two colleagues get into are gripping – lots of crashes that......more

Awards

Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year