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Like nothing else
- De Anonymous User en 06-22-17
De: Louisa Hall
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Pavilion of Women
- De: Pearl S. Buck
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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On her 40th birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after 24 years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed.
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Horrible narration!
- De C. Boatenreiter en 06-17-15
De: Pearl S. Buck
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The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
- De: Hermann Hesse, Jack Zipes - translator
- Narrado por: Donovan
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
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Step into a world of visions, philosophy, and passion in which dreamers, seekers, princesses, and wandering poets dwell. The 6 wonderful, romantic tales in this collection are reminiscent of ancient Oriental and German fairy tales. The selections, "The Poet," "The Flute Dream," "The Dwarf," "Faldum," "Ziegler," and "Dream of the Gods" were hand-picked by the narrator, legendary folk and rock musician Donovan.
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The reading is quiet and heavenly
- De Atalante Lemuria en 11-12-20
De: Hermann Hesse, y otros
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
- A Novel
- De: Jan-Philipp Sendker
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.
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Basic Story Interesting, But...
- De Monica en 06-04-13
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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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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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Beautiful book
- De Sonia S. en 12-13-19
De: Anuradha Roy
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- De: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, y otros
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 15 m
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She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Caroline Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.
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Still struggling with poetry
- De Beatrice en 01-30-12
De: Adrienne Rich, y otros
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The Stories of Eva Luna
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Pena
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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Immerse yourself in a world of love, vengeance, compassion, and irony with the evocative stories of Eva Luna. Author Isabel Allende introduced this well-loved character to audiences in her earlier novel, Eva Luna. Listen to Allende talk about the role of writing in her life in Giving Birth, Finding Form. This program also features Alice Walker and Jean Shinoda Bolen.
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Better some Allende than no Allende
- De Perschon en 12-04-14
De: Isabel Allende
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To the Lighthouse
- De: Virginia Woolf
- Narrado por: Nicole Kidman
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.
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A book that will challenge you to think.
- De Kelly en 04-23-17
De: Virginia Woolf
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Narcissus and Goldmund
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline.
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My favorite of Hesse's novels, wonderfully read.
- De David en 10-21-11
De: Hermann Hesse
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
- De: Amos Oz
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 23 h y 52 m
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It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.
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His life was interesting, but not his memoir
- De DR Harle en 01-27-19
De: Amos Oz
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 20 h y 18 m
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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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The Sea, the Sea
- De: Iris Murdoch, Mary Kinzie - introduction
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 21 h
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Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years.
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Murdoch Amazes
- De Sara en 08-30-17
De: Iris Murdoch, y otros
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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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I understand
- De Landomc en 05-26-21
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Lucy
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place.
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Coming of Age Story
- De COLEMAN en 09-13-19
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Annie John
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence at the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived". When she turns 12, however, Annie's life changes in ways that are often mysterious to her.
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Sweet, Simple & Enjoyable.
- De Kelly en 10-21-18
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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At the Bottom of the River
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 2 h y 15 m
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These stories plunge the listener gently into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her narrative is, by turns, naïvely whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean - family, manners, and landscape - as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
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glitch in audio
- De imogene en 02-01-20
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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See Now Then
- A Novel
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Jamaica Kincaid
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid (her first in 10 years), a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters - a mother, father, and two children living in a small village in New England - as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future.
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Talk About "Character-Driven"
- De Barbara en 05-02-13
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Mr. Potter
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. Misery infects the unstudied, slow pace of this island and of Mr. Potter's days. As the narrative unfolds in linked vignettes, his story becomes the story of a vital, crippled community.
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A Small Place
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
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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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I understand
- De Landomc en 05-26-21
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Lucy
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 4 h y 16 m
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Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple - handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet almost at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade. With mingled anger and compassion, Lucy scrutinizes the assumptions and verities of her employers' world and compares them with the vivid realities of her native place.
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Coming of Age Story
- De COLEMAN en 09-13-19
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Annie John
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 4 h y 19 m
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An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence at the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived". When she turns 12, however, Annie's life changes in ways that are often mysterious to her.
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Sweet, Simple & Enjoyable.
- De Kelly en 10-21-18
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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At the Bottom of the River
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 2 h y 15 m
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These stories plunge the listener gently into another way of perceiving both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her narrative is, by turns, naïvely whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered, partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean - family, manners, and landscape - as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
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glitch in audio
- De imogene en 02-01-20
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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See Now Then
- A Novel
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Jamaica Kincaid
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
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In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid (her first in 10 years), a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters - a mother, father, and two children living in a small village in New England - as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future.
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Talk About "Character-Driven"
- De Barbara en 05-02-13
De: Jamaica Kincaid
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Mr. Potter
- De: Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 5 h y 28 m
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Jamaica Kincaid's first obsession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. Misery infects the unstudied, slow pace of this island and of Mr. Potter's days. As the narrative unfolds in linked vignettes, his story becomes the story of a vital, crippled community.
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- Ms. Retro
- 11-19-19
It’s a Must Read!!!
I loved the narrator’s voice. It captured to essence of Jamaica Kincaid ‘s culture. The book is a mesmerizing account of multiculturalism, loss, independence, and freedom. It moved me on a personal level as she reclaimed her body and her professed self love!
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- Tan H
- 01-13-21
Drags
I Struggled to finish it.. tend to drag. very wordy when it didn't have to be.
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- Kyatanya Towe
- 03-04-22
just ok for me...
I struggled to finish this one...the way the story is written I found it to be a bit difficult to follow.
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- Annalissa Martinez
- 04-05-21
Yes!
Awesome book kept me interested! Had to read it for class and ended up really enjoying it.
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- Steffy
- 09-02-21
strange and disturbing
This was a disturbing story. I felt sad and moved by the lack of love in her life as well as her mother's life 💔
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- K. Akua Gray
- 12-11-20
Classic Jamaica Kincaid
I absolutely love the writings of this author and have read most of her books. This was my first listen of one of her audio books and it was just as delightful. Perfect performance.
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- CJB
- 04-22-21
Meaningful!
I thought this book was very deep and meaningful on so many levels. It really does give one a pause in thought throughout this book. The narrator did a great job of this reading as well!
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- Lammel S.
- 12-06-21
Sad and insightful
Beautifully written and performed, but heartbreaking. Prepare to feel sorry for a character who feels or pity for herself and little connection to others. I know people like this, which made it all the more painful, but also insightful.
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- Daniel
- 11-07-23
Interesting life experiences
I king of enjoyed the book. It wasn’t easy and at times hard to follow. It’s like the character refused to try and live outside her own negativity. It was interesting and sad to see how they live and the sad way they treat each other.
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- janrunner
- 06-12-21
Awful Book
The title of this book is a bit deceptive. It starts off telling a little about her mother then for hours the author goes into graphically describing her many instances of sexual self gratification coupled with all the people in her life whom she despised. Towards the end she starts talking again a little about the mother she never knew. I kept reading hoping it was going to get better but it never did. Complete waste of my time.
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