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Drawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt. After his years of covering China for The New Yorker, friends warned him Egypt would be a much quieter place. But not long before he arrived, the Egyptian Arab Spring had begun, and now the country was in chaos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating, Funny, and Moving Account of Egypt
- De Jefferson en 07-23-19
De: Peter Hessler
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A Bend in the River
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 572
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 377
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 385
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, insightful, troubling
- De Lawrence en 01-15-05
De: V. S. Naipaul
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
- A Memoir
- De: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book changed my life
- De Johnny Nopolis en 08-16-22
De: Ai Weiwei, y otros
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When We Were Arabs
- A Jewish Family's Forgotten History
- De: Massoud Hayoun
- Narrado por: Massoud Hayoun
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 47
There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism.
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1 out of 5 stars
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painful to read.
- De Eli Cukierman en 03-13-20
De: Massoud Hayoun
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The Address Book
- What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
- De: Deirdre Mask
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
An exuberant and insightful work of popular history of how streets got their names, houses their numbers, and what it reveals about class, race, power, and identity. When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Simply OK
- De CJFLA en 07-18-20
De: Deirdre Mask
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 43
Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The real Cuba
- De Tinkerbell en 10-11-20
De: Anthony DePalma
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Remembering Shanghai
- A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
- De: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
- Narrado por: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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touching stories of resilience and family
- De Rodger en 01-17-21
De: Isabel Sun Chao, y otros
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On the Plain of Snakes
- De: Paul Theroux
- Narrado por: Joseph Balderrama
- Duración: 19 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Nogales is a border town caught between Mexico and the United States of America. A 40-foot steel fence runs through its centre, separating the prosperous US side from the impoverished Mexican side. It is a fascinating site of tension, now more than ever, as the town fills with hopeful border crossers and the deportees who have been caught and brought back. And it is here that Paul Theroux will begin his journey into the culturally rich but troubled heart of modern Mexico.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A pedantic, poorly narrated, 20 hour lecture
- De Birdshot en 11-16-19
De: Paul Theroux
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House of Glass
- The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance
- De Derek en 08-30-22
De: Hadley Freeman
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From Miniskirt to Hijab
- A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
- De: Jacqueline Saper
- Narrado por: Vaneh Assadourian
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 299
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 301
Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At 18 she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good
- De Matt en 11-10-21
De: Jacqueline Saper
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The Shanghai Free Taxi
- Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
- De: Frank Langfitt
- Narrado por: Frank Langfitt
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service - offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation - to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful, compelling characters representative of the new China. They include folks like "Beer", a slippery salesman who tries to sell Langfitt a used car; Rocky, a farm boy turned Shanghai lawyer; and Chen, who runs an underground Christian church and moves his family to America in search of a better, freer life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too political
- De dah551 en 06-26-19
De: Frank Langfitt
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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America Is in the Heart
- De: Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo - foreword, E. San Juan Jr. - introduction, y otros
- Narrado por: Ramon de Ocampo
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish-American War of the late 1890s.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pointless, wandering narrative poorly performed
- De B. Bartok en 08-15-20
De: Carlos Bulosan, y otros
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- De: Dina Nayeri
- Narrado por: Dina Nayeri
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- De PAH en 09-06-19
De: Dina Nayeri
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The Long Loneliness
- The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
- De: Dorothy Day
- Narrado por: Nancy Linari
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 83
When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of luminous personality...founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and leader for more than 50 years in numerous battles of social justice.” Here, in her own words, this remarkable woman tells of her early life as a young journalist in the crucible of Greenwich Village political and literary thought in the 1920s, and of her momentous conversion to Catholicism that meant the end of a Bohemian lifestyle and common-law marriage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Required reading for any who work in poverty
- De marguerite allred-crawford en 11-16-20
De: Dorothy Day
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After the Last Border
- Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
- De: Jessica Goudeau
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 67
The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries - yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the 21st-century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Content. Odd Structure.
- De Susan Stillings en 02-10-21
De: Jessica Goudeau
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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India history
- De geoperky en 04-23-24
De: V. S. Naipaul
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An Area of Darkness
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Go slowly with this one, or it's a slog
- De John S. en 08-15-21
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Enigma of Arrival
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A noveau novel
- De Chike M Nzerue en 05-02-20
De: V. S. Naipaul
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 277
A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Performance makes a fatal mistake. No Trini accent
- De Christopher en 01-04-19
De: V. S. Naipaul
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In a Free State
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Magical Prose …
- De Saman en 07-19-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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A Way in the World
- A Novel
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh, who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the 19th-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa.
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1 out of 5 stars
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ugh!
- De Norman Johnson en 09-16-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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India: A Wounded Civilization
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency”, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left 100 years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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India history
- De geoperky en 04-23-24
De: V. S. Naipaul
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An Area of Darkness
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Go slowly with this one, or it's a slog
- De John S. en 08-15-21
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Enigma of Arrival
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 86
The story of a writer's singular journey - from one place to another, from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England, and from one state of mind to another - is perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work. Yet it is also woven through with remarkable invention to make it a rich and complex novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A noveau novel
- De Chike M Nzerue en 05-02-20
De: V. S. Naipaul
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 277
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 277
A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Performance makes a fatal mistake. No Trini accent
- De Christopher en 01-04-19
De: V. S. Naipaul
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In a Free State
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam, Neil Shah, Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
On a road trip through Africa, two English people - Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys; and Linda, a supercilious "compound wife" - are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Magical Prose …
- De Saman en 07-19-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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A Way in the World
- A Novel
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh, who seeks El Dorado in the New World; the 19th-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded in East Africa.
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1 out of 5 stars
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ugh!
- De Norman Johnson en 09-16-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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A Bend in the River
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 572
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 377
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 385
In this incandescent novel, V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man, an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, insightful, troubling
- De Lawrence en 01-15-05
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Miguel Street
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
"A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say 'Slum!' because he could see no more." But to its residents, this derelict corner of Trinidad's capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. In this tender, funny early novel, V. S. Naipaul renders their lives (and the legends their neighbors construct around them) with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed feelings.
- De anton en 10-27-18
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Great Mughals and Their India
- De: Dirk Collier
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
A definitive, comprehensive and engrossing chronicle of one of the greatest dynasties of the world—the Mughal—from its founder Babur to Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last of the clan the magnificent Mughal legacy is an inexhaustible source of inspiration to historians, writers, moviemakers, artists and ordinary mortals alike. Here is a fascinating and riveting saga that brings alive a spectacular bygone era—authentically and convincingly.
De: Dirk Collier
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The Mimic Men
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned, and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism. Ralph's constant estrangement sees him ever attempting to fit into various communities, only to find home in more transient spaces. Born on the tropical island of Isabella, he is one of West India's many "Mimic Men".
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Guerrillas
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
On an unnamed Caribbean Island, political tensions provoked by race and poverty are high. Jimmy Ahmed, a young mixed-race man, has been hailed as a revolutionary leader of the people. Roche, imprisoned for activities against South Africa's apartheid regime, and Jane, a feckless English rich girl wanting to feel a part of something bigger, get sucked into the turmoil and world of Ahmed. But does anyone achieve anything by causing unrest? Do any of them really want freedom in a new society or just the old society with themselves at the helm of power?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Reactionary Islamophobia 101
- De Kobugi en 03-13-20
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Inglorious Empire
- What the British Did to India
- De: Shashi Tharoor
- Narrado por: Shashi Tharoor
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 435
In the 18th century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" was designed in Britain's interests alone.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An entertaining and provocative history
- De James Moseley en 01-07-20
De: Shashi Tharoor
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The Foundations of Western Civilization
- De: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Thomas F. X. Noble
- Duración: 24 h y 51 m
- Grabación Original
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,430
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415
What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Engaging or Very Interesting
- De Tommy D'Angelo en 03-05-17
De: Thomas F. X. Noble, y otros
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The American Civil War
- De: Gary W. Gallagher, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Gary W. Gallagher
- Duración: 24 h y 37 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 4,567
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,053
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,028
Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles, those streams ran red with blood-and the United States was truly born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Series
- De Rodney en 07-09-13
De: Gary W. Gallagher, y otros
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India
- A Portrait
- De: Patrick French
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 17 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India’s political, economic and social complexities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Epic Book by Award-Winning Author
- De morton en 10-31-11
De: Patrick French
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The Mystic Masseur
- A Novel
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 27
In this slyly funny and lavishly inventive novel, Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic, a thriving entrepreneur, and the most beloved politician in Trinidad. Witty, tender, filled with the sights, sounds, and smells of Trinidad's dusty Indian villages, The Mystic Masseur is Naipaul at his most expansive and evocative.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty Good
- De Joan en 09-23-19
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book, and Other Comic Inventions
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Ron Butler, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 19 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
V. S. Naipaul's legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction - two novels and a collection of stories - that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.
De: V. S. Naipaul
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Half a Life
- A Novel
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 7
The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portuguese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray.
De: V. S. Naipaul
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre India: A Million Mutinies Now
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- Moraz
- 06-28-23
Amust reading for anyone who has an interest in In
Excellent and so well read. Whether you love India or struggle with its many-fasceted richness, this book will deepen your understanding. It provoked my interest immensely.
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- S. Kolinjavadi
- 01-23-24
An Ambitious account of a vision of India
India with many of its flavors, sounds, colors and people is challenge to describe. I've avoided Naipul all these years fearing his was a potentially deficient view of my birthplace. And I was wrong. This travelogue is a discovery of an India, beautifully portrayed, yet with an uncritical prose that allows you to make what you will. I find some plausible explanations for the India I know and also for what it appears to have become now. the narrator is brilliant, though his accents may require a curious amount of accomodation for some.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-30-23
A Classic
A must read to understand a great civilization
Also a good understanding of the historical events
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- JK
- 08-15-21
AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ
I researched the Internet for review, written by people who had read the book. Almost all of them were four stars.
I highly recommend this book if you are at all interested in India.
The book was written a number of years ago.
India has come a long way since then.
I believe India will be a world power.
The people are ambitious and not afraid to better themselves.
Above all they are very intelligent.
The concern is that China will team up with India.
America has to prevent that at all costs.
President Trump understands the importance of India. This was reflected in his historical meeting with India’s prime minister.
There is so much information in this book to absorb. I will certainly listen to it again in the future.
An interesting site to explore is “Google Earth”.
You can explore the cities mentioned in the book and the beautiful architecture of the buildings that have stood the test of time.
The narrator, mr. Sam Dastor is beyond excellent.
As always, my thanks to all involved in making this book available, JK.
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- anonymous
- 12-13-23
Knowledge abound!
Knowledge at your fingertips and lots of it, to satisfy your curiosity and particular interest! Enjoy!
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