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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- Narrado por: Francois Chau
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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There is a saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. A Case of Exploding Mangoes is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest aircraft, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988?
Was it because of: mechanical failure; human error; the CIA's impatience; a blind woman's curse; generals not happy with their pension plans; the mango season? Or could it be your narrator, Ali Shigri?
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Time Capsule
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De: Mohammed Hanif
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Guapa
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Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend, Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar Guapa, who has been arrested by the police.
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Guapa
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De: Saleem Haddad
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
- A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
- De: Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts
- Narrado por: Nancy Kwan
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This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. The youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was 12 years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her village. She was raped and "ruined" for marriage by Viet Cong soldiers, imprisoned and tortured by the South Vietnamese, and sentenced to death by the Viet Cong. Ultimately fleeing to the U.S. with her children, she finally found peace, and in 1986, she was reunited with her family in Vietnam. The story of her homecoming, interwoven with her memories of the war years, paints a vivid picture of a noble, optimistic woman and her native country.
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- De heatherhg en 07-01-07
De: Le Ly Hayslip, y otros
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In the First Circle
- De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harry T. Willets - translator
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 31 h y 52 m
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Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949. The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison that houses the country's brightest minds. He and his fellow prisoners are charged with using their abilities to sleuth out the caller's identity, and they must choose whether to aid Joseph Stalin's repressive state - or refuse and accept transfer to the Siberian Gulag camps, and almost certain death.
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One of the five finest novels written in the 20th Century
- De Ellis D Vener en 04-08-19
De: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, y otros
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The Centurions
- De: Jean Larteguy, Robert D. Kaplan - foreward
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling moral question the novel posed: how to fight when the "age of heroics is over". As relevant today as it was half a century ago, The Centurions is a gripping military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency.
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Superbly read. Unbelievably timely
- De Benjamin en 05-05-21
De: Jean Larteguy, y otros
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The Quiet American
- De: Graham Greene
- Narrado por: Joseph Porter
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Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
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Terrible narrator nearly derails Greene novel.
- De Richard en 07-12-12
De: Graham Greene
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Sapphire Skies
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
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2000: The wreckage of a downed WWII fighter plane is discovered in the forests near Russia's Ukrainian border.The aircraft belonged to Natalya Azarova, ace pilot and pin-up girl for Soviet propaganda, but the question of her fate remains unanswered. Was she a German spy who faked her own death, as the Kremlin claims? Her lover, Valentin Orlov, now a highly-decorated general, refuses to believe it. Lily, a young Australian woman, has moved to Moscow to escape from tragedy.
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A Disturbing Disappointment
- De Sara en 08-07-14
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Shame
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is "not quite Pakistan". In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men - one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure - Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation.
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Should have quit at chapter 2
- De G. Miller en 06-23-23
De: Salman Rushdie
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In the Country
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- De: Mia Alvar
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These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.
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My introduction to Filipino literature and culture
- De Amazon Customer en 03-28-16
De: Mia Alvar
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Golden Earrings
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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Catalina, grand-daughter of Spanish refugees, is a disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet. Little gets inthe way of her career until the visit of an otherworldly being, who leaves her a mysterious pair of golden earrings. Given a quest, Catalina realises she must explore her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and ‘La Rusa’, a young Andalusian flamenco star. La Rusa died in exile in Paris in 1952, her death ruled as suicide. But as Catalina begins to discover, there were those in the community, who had good reason for wanting La Rusa dead.
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Fabulous story
- De Paddington en 10-19-12
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The Kindly Ones
- De: Jonathan Littell
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
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The chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man and factory owner in France. Max is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and classical music. He is also a cold-blooded assassin and the consummate bureaucrat. Through the eyes of this cultivated yet monstrous man, we experience in disturbingly precise detail the horrors of the Second World War and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
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Office politics in hell
- De Maine Colonial 🌲 en 04-02-13
De: Jonathan Littell
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Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother - a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang - and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is given his first taste of power, picking which orphans eat first and which will be lent out for manual labor. Recognized for his loyalty and keen instincts, Jun Do comes to the attention of superiors in the state, rises in the ranks, and starts on a road from which there will be no return.
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The most compelling listen I've ever owned
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Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive comedy of blending, identity, and politics.
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Phillip Roth would certainly listen!
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Bao Ninh, a former North Vietnamese soldier, provides a strikingly honest look at how the Vietnam War forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there. Originally published against government wishes in Vietnam because of its nonheroic, nonideological tone, The Sorrow of War has won worldwide acclaim and become an international best seller.
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Alden Pyle, an idealistic young American, is sent to Vietnam to promote democracy amidst the intrigue and violence of the French war with the Vietminh, while his friend, Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, looks on.
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Terrible narrator nearly derails Greene novel.
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Fire in the Lake
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This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam - the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention - and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. Originally published in 1972, Fire in the Lake was the first history of Vietnam written by an American, and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize.
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In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from 30 best-selling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child - with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces listeners to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away.
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Great novel. Strange narrator choice.
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The Night Watchman
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Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, DC, this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
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Beautiful
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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Wondrous Book!!!
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Monkey Boy
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Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of "going home again". It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again. Soon he is beckoned back to Boston by the high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations, and his mother, Yolanda, around whom his story orbits like a dark star.
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Anticlimactic at every turn
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The Mountains Sing
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With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.
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Incredible first English language novel
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- Will
- 11-12-15
Graphic violence you can feel
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would not recommend this book and would not listen to or read it again. That said, the vocabulary and drawn comparisons were both brilliant. It was however overshadowed by too much violence which I did not feel comfortable with.
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Learning a side to the Viet Nam war I was unfamiliar with.... least was the heavy dose of descriptive VIOLENCE
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- Sharlotte
- 08-27-17
Well-written book
I appreciate the author's intelligence, which was strikingly evident. While the book was very interesting, I must admit my attention waned somewhat by the second half, perhaps owing to the narration being so predictable.
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- Mary Storms
- 05-18-19
Beautifully, smartly written and read
The Sympathizer is one of the most beautifully written, sonorously read books in my library. It is filled with the pathos and misery of war's leftover people - in this case, the Vietnamese from both sides of the fight. The Sympathizer is a story of philosophy, of life-sacrificing friendships, of the complexity of human beings, and of complicated decisions, relationships, and sacrifices. It deserves all its awards and accolades.
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- JAS
- 06-30-19
Cutting, complex and poetic story, delivered wryly
The Sympathizer challenges the reader (and listener) with its breadth of story and circuitous narrative. For the most party, I enjoyed listening to it unfold. It took rather a long time for me to embrace the narration, if truth be told. Extraneous mouth noises, for example, pull me out of it. And the extremely detached and wry delivery of Francois Chau, to my ears, affects more of a real person, at times, than a narrator. It's a tricky balance. Ultimately, Mr Chau's reading does work for me even when his instrument sometimes sounds like it needs a drink of water.
The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer, so who am I to quibble with the book? I definitely enjoyed visiting a time (mid 1970s, Vietnam and beyond) with a complex and intriguing main character. The book casually features some drop-dead gorgeous language. Immense beauty. Occasionally, the content gets pretty rough - but it never feels gratuitous. Way too many pop culture references for its own good, but otherwise, a compelling read - if, at times, confusing. I suggest not to worry about the confusion, and stay with it.
Mr Chau's narration provides a well-matched tone of humor and pathos. While less convincing with some of the additional character voices, the bulk of his work here provides a flexible and sturdy spine to the audiobook.
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- brenda gilbert
- 12-11-20
A Grim Confession
A grim but important story told with self-effacing transparency, liberally salted with figurative expression. A confession from the perspective of a revolutionary who has grown to understand the irony of his cause.
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- Sisyphus
- 12-11-20
A fascinating historical epic
“The Sympathizer“ is the fascinating story of an individual trying to survive with a little integrity as he threads his way through the messy, conflicting historical, social and Ideological constructs that framed our 20th century realities. It was an epic journey and well told!
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- MMMarshall
- 07-21-18
Best book of the Millennium
The writing would humble Nabokov, and Conrad could not have woven a better tale about the Double. An absolutely impeccable performance seers it into memory.
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- Reader in Iowa
- 08-26-16
Stunning
Set in divided Vietnam and the US, this book feels dystopian, but is all too history-based. Trigger warnings for violence, sexual and otherwise, but the violence shines a spotlight on the idea of violence, just as the entire book shines a spotlight on how sympathy cannot make suffering less.
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- PDQ925
- 03-04-17
I loved this book. Literature at its finest.
What did you love best about The Sympathizer?
Wit, pace, metaphors, humor, insight, historical view, philosophical tidbits, perspective, so much so that I became completely immersed in the protagonist's epic journeys.
What did you like best about this story?
The storyline follows a compelling track wrapped in brilliantly-crafted language and detail. I could hardly put down my iPod or wait to pick it up again.
Have you listened to any of Francois Chau’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I found the performance perfectly balanced to the tone and flow of the story.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I was tugged in my emotions more by the humor and irony than anger or sadness. Like many Americans who did not serve but came of age in that era, Vietnam is the war we tend to jump over to reach back to the glory days of WW2. Although fictional, The Sympathizer is a well-needed perspective to help us come to grips with what it means to be the winner and loser in war, as much as what it means to be a refugee and immigrant in America. I had just read (listened to) All the Light We Cannot See which inspired me to read the Pulitzer Price winner for 2016 and I was not disappointed. Outstanding piece of literature. Bravo.
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- Bear's Mom
- 02-02-18
Thought-provoking
I love books that give a better understanding of history or a culture, and this novel does both with beautiful prose and heart-aching scenes.
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