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Long-listed, New Yorker Best Books of the Year, 2023
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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Mamie was only eleven when the Künstlers escaped Vienna in 1939. They made their way, stunned and overwhelmed, to sunny, surreal Los Angeles, where they joined a colony of distinguished Jewish musicians, writers and intellectuals also escaping Hitler. Now, faced with months of lockdown and a willing listener, Mamie begins to tell Julian the buried stories of her early years in Los Angeles: her escapades with eminent émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann. Oh, and Greta Garbo. While the pandemic cuts Julian off from the life he knows, Mamie’s tales open up a world of lives that came before him. They reveal to him just how much the past holds of the future.
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A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
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"Dreamy, drifty, and droll, studded with lush botanical description and historical gems. Schine’s many fans will enjoy."—Kirkus Reviews
"Reading like a cross between Leopoldstadt and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, this does the trick as an emotionally resonant meditation on family, memory, and the need for stories."—Publishers Weekly
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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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Lady Oracle
- De: Margaret Atwood
- Narrado por: Lorelei King
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take stock of her life. But first, she must organize her own death.
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A Feminist Romp
- De annkpowers en 07-02-22
De: Margaret Atwood
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Tender Is the Night
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not his own, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise. A profound study of the romantic concept of character - lyrical, expansive, and hauntingly evocative.
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- De jb en 10-12-15
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
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In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
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De: Albert Camus
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The Beautiful and Damned
- De: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: William Dufris
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Published in 1922, Fitzgerald's second novel chronicles the relationship of Anthony Patch, Harvard-educated, aspiring aesthete, and his beautiful wife, Gloria, as they await to inherit his grandfather's fortune. A devastating satire of the nouveaux rich and New York's nightlife, of reckless ambition and squandered talent, it is also a shattering portrait of a marriage fueled by alcohol and wasted by wealth. The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald wrote to Zelda in 1930, "was all true."
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i loved it
- De Emily en 01-20-05
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Save Me the Waltz
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- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessions of a famous, slightly doomed glamour girl of the affluent 1920s, which captures the spirit of an era.
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De: Zelda Fitzgerald
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The Shadow Lines
- De: Amitav Ghosh
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Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows two families - one English, one Bengali - as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian-born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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Narrator Doesn't Know How to Pronounce
- De Amazon Customer en 08-27-11
De: Amitav Ghosh
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The Hourglass
- De: Tracy Rees
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It's 2014. Sensible Nora has always taken success for granted until suddenly her life begins to fall apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby, a place she's been only once before. Together with a local girl, she rents a beautiful townhouse and slowly begins to settle in to her new life. But Tenby hides a secret, and Nora will soon discover that this little town by the sea has the power to heal even the most painful memories.
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- De LoveAmazon en 11-12-17
De: Tracy Rees
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The Love Note
- De: Tracy Rees
- Narrado por: Jasmine Blackborow
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Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Villa in Italy. Blue lives a charmed life. From her family's townhouse in Richmond, she lives a life of luxury and couldn't want for anything - well, on the surface at least. Then, on the night of her 21st birthday, her father makes a startling toast: he will give his daughter's hand to whichever man can capture her heart best in the form of a love letter. But Blue has other ideas, and, unwilling to play at her father's bewildering games, she sets out on her own path to find her own destiny....
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The Love Note❣️
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De: Tracy Rees
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Cocaine Blues
- De: Kerry Greenwood
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It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.
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A series that just gets better
- De Barbara Kindle Customer en 02-01-11
De: Kerry Greenwood
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Embassy Wife
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- De: Katie Crouch
- Narrado por: Marni Penning
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia, takes her job as a representative of her country seriously and comes up with an intricate set of rules to survive a range of problems: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador’s general counsel but instead a secret agent in the CIA. She takes the new trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing....
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- De Amazon Customer en 09-30-21
De: Katie Crouch
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
- De: Laura Ruby
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When Frankie’s mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That’s why Frankie's not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now, Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other orphans - two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive.
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Boring, boring, boring
- De Marie J. en 08-20-21
De: Laura Ruby
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Künstlers in Paradise
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- Susan E. Metros
- 07-02-23
Not much there
First off, the narrator was downright annoyed, trying to imitate the voices of the characters. The telling of the story was mildly interesting but never went anywhere.
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- 04-21-23
Grew on me
Very enjoyable historical fiction. The main characters grew on me and afterwards I missed them!
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- David
- 07-08-23
What is Paradise?
The first chapter of “Kunstlers in Paradise” is the best. There is tension as the Kunstler family leaves Vienna in 1939, exiling themselves before the Nazi Holocaust, painfully making their way to Los Angeles.
Unfortunately, there is not much tension after that. The book shifts to modern times. Mamie, who was nine when she fled Vienna, has become a grandmother in her ‘90s. She lives near the Pacific Ocean with her aging helper Agatha and her memories of Hollywood’s émigré community. Her aimless adult grandson Julian arrives from New York City to help during the Covid pandemic.
Two parallel stories ensue. Julian begins to find himself as he listens to his grandmother’s stories and walks her dog, meeting a charming potential girlfriend. And Mamie recounts her life in Venice (California), socializing with well-known European émigrés like Arnold Schoenberg, Greta Garbo and Thomas Mann. Mamie is clever and articulate, and there are a few surprises as the novel continues. But overall, it’s not that interesting. I believe two kinds of readers would enjoy this novel: those who are focused on Holocaust survivors in America and those who like Hollywood history.
Paradise? When I saw the title, I figured it had to be ironic. To a degree, that’s true. Mamie’s artistic and cultured family believed that Vienna was paradise prior to the Nazi takeover. And Southern California is often regarded as a shallow kind of paradise. But by the end of the book, my sense was that there was nothing ironic about regarding Mamie’s new home as a paradise for her. She was able to wrest a successful and happy (enough) life from her refugee roots.
The narration by Jesse Vilinsky is excellent. She does a fine job with the characters’ voices, easily distinguishing them to make the conversations easy to follow.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-03-23
disappointing
I thought the concept of emigres and and a floundering young adult searching for security in a new setting was creative and interesting. However it became redundant and Mamies name dropping turned me off Also the narration was irritating. Shine was much better in her book. Properties. Re the 2*5 year old who wouldn’t move out. I finished the book reluctantly. Disappointing and mundane ending. Schindler can do much better!
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- Cathryn Harjung
- 04-11-23
I wanted to love this but it The Kunstlers was a klunker
Story: nothing new
Narration: left a lot to be desired
Characters: undeveloped and lacking oomph
Why did I finish? I paid for it and I'm no quitter
I found this plodding, not very interesting, and not satisfying. The story was superficial and I wanted the story to dig deep.
The narration killed it for me. The characters were so predictable.
I cannot recommend this title.
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- Formerly Fast
- 04-10-23
Dull and predictable
Somehow a novel that incorporates a World War II theme and Greta Garbo is tedious. Characters are stick figures.
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- jennmf
- 06-18-23
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This had a lot of potential but it was so very boring. I gave up.
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- MG
- 07-14-23
Thankfully light, and easy read
Finished this pretty quickly. I enjoyed the book but it might be because I have family that lived in West LA during the post war period and who knew the kids of some of the musicians mentioned. The stories of the thriving emigre population and the guilt and shame associated with having the opportunity to escape the “final solution,” rang true. I don’t think I could have managed a more intense story of that period. As for the contemporary period, I also didn’t need a rehashing of how horrific the early pandemic period was. I enjoyed the book and the narrator.
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- JenLen
- 06-16-23
Loved it!
The voice used for Mamie reminded me of my grandmother’s. It startled me, as i haven’t heard her voice since she passed 30 years ago. I loved the spunk and sass of Mamie and Agatha. I laughed out loud several times. I love historical fiction and this book didn’t disappoint.
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- R_Thor
- 04-25-23
Could only listen for 2 hours
No narrator needs to stick with a quivering, croaky 93 year old voice. I had to rip out my headphones.
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