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In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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TW: incest
- De Carrissa en 04-12-17
De: Tiphanie Yanique
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Above Us Only Sky
- De: Michele Young-Stone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm So Glad I Listened to It!
- De Elizabeth en 08-22-16
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Caramelo
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.
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Love, family, history, and fantasy, Caramelo
- De Michele en 08-07-20
De: Sandra Cisneros
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The Vine of Desire
- De: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vine of desire
- De Mz Shantay en 03-27-21
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In the Country
- Stories
- De: Mia Alvar
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Don Castro
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
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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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
- A Novel
- De: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra, Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 559
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 557
Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister, Cassandra, enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe better to read this book than listen???
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Flame Tree Road
- De: Shona Patel
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
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India, 1870s. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood - shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance - Biren devotes his life to effecting change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Love Story
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De: Shona Patel
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
- De: Nayomi Munaweera
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation
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De: Nayomi Munaweera
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A Golden Age
- A Novel
- De: Tahmima Anam
- Narrado por: Madhur Jaffrey
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 44
As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air.
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5 out of 5 stars
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sad, poignant, thought-provoking, beautiful
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De: Tahmima Anam
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Amy Tan, Joan Chen
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 719
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Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is being unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, brilliantly presents "storytelling in its oldest and truest form".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptionally good
- De Eileen Finn en 03-25-03
De: Amy Tan
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The Blue Between Sky and Water
- De: Susan Abulhawa
- Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a quiet village in Palestine surrounded by olive groves, is home to the Baraka family. Eldest daughter Nazmiyeh looks after her widowed mother, prone to wandering and strange outbursts, while her brother, Mamdouh, tends to the village bees. Their younger sister, Mariam, with her striking mismatched eyes, spends her days talking to imaginary friends and writing.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible pronunciation
- De Debra Sabah Press en 11-08-18
De: Susan Abulhawa
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Tar Baby
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Desiree Coleman
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 254
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Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between Blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good that I'm writing my first Audible review!
- De BL en 12-10-11
De: Toni Morrison
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
- De: Eleanor Morse
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
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General4 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 116
Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
- De Kathi en 03-15-13
De: Eleanor Morse
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The Kite Runner
- De: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrado por: Khaled Hosseini
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,027
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 13,873
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 13,879
Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Worhty Read
- De P. C..S. en 08-17-03
De: Khaled Hosseini
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Habibi
- De: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 51
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For 14-year-old Liyana Abboud, life in St. Louis, Missouri is perfect. She loves shopping in the nearby stores and walking down streets where she knows everyone. Even better, she has just had her first kiss. But her father is moving the family to Jerusalem - the land where he was born. Suddenly Liyana finds herself a stranger in a threatening world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good Performance
- De Muhammad en 04-07-15
De: Naomi Shihab Nye
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All the Lives We Never Lived
- De: Anuradha Roy
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter, The Folded Earth, and An Atlas of Impossible Longing, a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son’s quest to uncover the truth about his mother....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful book
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De: Anuradha Roy
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It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New York.
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,141
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of General Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship.
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Maybe it's just me but...
- De Sarah PK en 03-05-16
De: Julia Alvarez
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Claire of the Sea Light
- De: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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Claire Limyè Lanmè - Claire of the Sea Light - is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose, Haiti. Claire’s mother died in childbirth, and on each of her birthdays Claire is taken by her father, Nozias, to visit her mother’s grave. Nozias wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper, who lost a child of her own, so that Claire can have a better life. But on the night of Claire’s seventh birthday, when at last he makes the wrenching decision to do so, she disappears.
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Claire Shines, Other Characters Not So Much
- De FanB14 en 09-15-13
De: Edwidge Danticat
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A Small Place
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 1 h y 48 m
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"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him - why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen..." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the 10-by-12-mile island in the British West Indies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I understand
- De Landomc en 05-26-21
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Avengers of the New World
- The Story of the Haitian Revolution
- De: Laurent DuBois
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the 18th-century Atlantic world. Within a few years, the slave insurgents forced the French administrators of the colony to emancipate them, a decision ratified by revolutionary Paris in 1794. This victory was a stunning challenge to the order of master/slave relations throughout the Americas, including the Southern United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truly comprehensive historical account
- De Anonymous User en 03-12-24
De: Laurent DuBois
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Purple Hibiscus
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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In Purple Hibiscus, she recounts the story of a young Nigerian girl searching for freedom. Although her father is greatly respected within their community, 15-year-old Kambili knows a frighteningly strict and abusive side to this man. In many ways, she and her family lead a privileged life, but Kambili and her brother, Jaja, are often punished for failing to meet their father’s expectations. After visiting her aunt and cousins, Kambili dreams of being part of a loving family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Could improve sound quality
- De Brisa A. en 03-14-15
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Americanah
- A Novel
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 18 h y 44 m
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Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De Ladybanni en 03-19-24
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Krik? Krak!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-25-22
A childhood favorite...
I remember finding this book when I was in elementary school, and how vivid and beautiful the stories were... to hear them brought to life in an audiobook was truly magical! 💖
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- Anonymous User
- 05-17-23
One Of the best Books I’ve read
I am a ELA III for the 11th grade in the bronx. Opening with this book has allowed me to introduce my scholars not only into the world of storytelling but aligning it with actually historical event.
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- erika
- 03-04-15
great, emotional
Very insightful book about the lives of the people in Haiti on a personal level. the stories are somewhat sad and disheartening but the author has great purpose in writing the book. Very good narration also.
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- Baje Bookclub (@baje_bookclub)
- 11-01-23
Short story collection
This short story collection was good and heartbreaking at the same time. Haitians have been through a lot.
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- Fred
- 07-09-21
FANTASTIC STORYTELLER (and storytelling)
Each narrator was chosen to allow the listener to revel in Danticat’s skill as a storyteller! Exceptionally well done.
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- Chiti Kaunda
- 01-04-22
Beautiful short stories of strength & resilience
To know Haiti is to know a history of overcoming. Slaves who overthrew their masters and have been eternally challenged by rejecting whiteness. These are beautiful stories written from the perspective of women with connection to Ville Rose. They tell stories of the Haitians who stayed and those of the diaspora, their plight, but most of all their grounding in a dignified identity. Very well narrated. Inspirational.
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- AuthorAnnaBella
- 10-26-20
A captivating story of Haitian culture and folklore told with a poetic flow.
Krik? Krak! is a compilation of stories depicting the rich, traumatic history and cultural heritage of Haiti. It speaks of Haitian life in Haiti and in the US. Each story intertwined, linking past & present reuniting them all in the end. These stories are packed with love, loss, belonging, hope, suffering and grief. Descriptively rich, pulling the reader in to live vividly through the eyes of each character.
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- Jessica
- 02-13-19
marvelous
it just doesn't get any better than this masterpiece. danticat's pen is a magic wand that performs a perfected craft.
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- Patrick V. Milord
- 08-01-22
PHENOMENAL!!!!
This book is a canonical volume of Haitian-American literature
Any Haitian or American of Haitian descent will appreciate this book!
Every character in this book reminded me of my mother, father, aunt, uncle, sister & cousin.
The bone and pumpkin soup references made me feel nostalgic!!!
I really enjoyed this audiobook. The accolades it received are well deserved!!!
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- Irene McIntyre
- 09-07-19
I like the narrator
But the stories are forgettable. I wanted to like it but I just didn't find anything to like...but the narrator.
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