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- 100+ Books to Read and Reread
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 13
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Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a saltshaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools, and enough iron to forge a 3-inch nail. But how did these elements combine to make us human?
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Resumen del Editor
From ‘the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world’ (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss.
‘Why do we love books so much?’
For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an escape and a sanctuary, the characters of some novels feeling so real to her childhood self that she worried they might leap out of the pages at night if she left the book cover open. In Ex Libris, she offers a personal selection of more than 100 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, with passionate essays on why each has had a profound effect on her life.
From Homer’s The Odyssey to The Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, Ex Libris covers a rich and vast range of classics, old and new, that will help build a well-rounded listener and citizen of the world. Ex Libris points us to our next great listen - and proves an unmissable reminder of why we fell in love with books in the first place.