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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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Before We Visit the Goddess
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- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan, Priya Ayyar, Vikas Adam
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The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
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Absolutely Worth a Credit
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Guapa
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Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend, Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar Guapa, who has been arrested by the police.
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Guapa
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De: Saleem Haddad
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
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For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly - exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand", their relationship grew tense.
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Aweful
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Diamond Head
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- De: Cecily Wong
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Told through the eyes of the Leongs' secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice, and miraculous hope.
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One Amazing Thing
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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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An ok way to kill some time
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Shadow Show
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Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-27-17
De: Sam Weller - editor, y otros
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Black & White
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Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her famous mother, the renowned and controversial photographer Ruth Dunne, whose towering reputation rests on the unsettling nude portraits she took of her young daughter from the ages of three to 14. As Clara charts a path connecting her childhood with her adult life, Shapiro's novel weaves together past and present in images as stark and intense as the photographs that tore the Dunnes apart.
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It was okay
- De Lucy7 en 02-13-19
De: Dani Shapiro
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The Beach Trees
- De: Karen White
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For Julie Holt, travelling to the beautiful but ravaged coast of Biloxi, Mississippi, is a journey into a secret past, and a life she never expected.... Julie first knew loss at the age of 12, when her sister disappeared, never to be found. As her once close-knit family grew apart, Julie's mother obsessively searched for the girl, and when her mother died, Julie took up the search, never letting go of the hope. Then, at an art exhibition in New York, she meets Monica....
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The ending was very weak
- De Missi Boyd en 10-31-16
De: Karen White
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Stiltsville
- De: Susanna Daniel
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One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuValand, a new future reveals itself.
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boring, slow, and... who cares?!
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De: Susanna Daniel
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Stories
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The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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Something for Everyone
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De: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, y otros
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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
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Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the best-selling novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory of both the Americans and the Vietnamese.
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This timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge. Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe.
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Intended for 5-8th graders, but it is good for adults too
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Dust Child
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From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a propulsive and moving tale of wartime love, family, and loss, as an American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Việt Nam War that will reverberate throughout each other’s lives.
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- Samuel Freire
- 04-22-19
Majestic writing
Captivating stories that grasped my attention from the beginning to the end. This is the second book that I have listened from this author and again I am impressed with his writing style.
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- Brenda B
- 09-25-17
Remarkable and unforgettable
I bought this as a Daily Deal or other sale, with no idea about the author. I don't even care for short stories but these blew me away. I couldn't stop listening. The characters were so well developed I could see them as if looking at a photo but felt as though I was in each scene, embodying the characters. They had the mark of all great fiction. Each story was rooted in some aspect of the Vietnamese American experience, so I had access to an unknown culture. And yet each spoke to the universal bitter sweetness of being human, poignant stories of dreams dashed and realized , love and loss, the wreckage of human failure. So beautifully read by the author . Couldn't recommend this more highly. In fact this is the only review I've ever written! Can't wait to read his Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
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- Thomas More
- 03-19-17
Good collection of short stories
After reading his award-winning The Sympathizer, I wanted to follow it up by looking at some more stories from Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Refugees is a collection of eight or nine stories that saw original publication in order sources. After the success of The Sympathizer, his publisher brought these works together into this collection. All the stories feature Vietnamese characters and are set either in America as immigrant tales, or in Vietnam, as is the case with the last story of the collection featuring a father who receives a visit from a daughter who has "made it big" in the states as a pediatrician. Themes such as aging, young love, regret, and deceit work strongly throughout the collection. All of the stories are excellent and help to illuminate the lives of Vietnamese immigrants.
The author narrates the collection himself, and as is often the case with such things (SEE "The Lovely Bones," as an example) the results are good, but not great. Great narration is an art in itself, and sometimes the best idea is to bring in a hired gun for the job.
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- H. Easom
- 05-22-18
Some More Engaging than Others
A beautifully written book of short stories, I enjoyed some immensely and others not so much. The first chapter was my least favorite; I’m glad I stuck it out, as some of the later chapters really engaged my interest.
As an audiobook, Chapter 1 was a bit confusing. The author narrated the stories, and it took me a while to recognize that the story’s narrator was actually female. This threw me off. The author also made a valiant effort to speak in the accents of the character speaking. In some instances it worked gorgeously; in others, not so much.
Overall, an enjoyable listen.
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- Naila
- 01-21-18
Sensitive
Written with a certain cultural and aesthetic sensitivity that I have not encountered in modern refugee literature. It offers a perspective that gives another perspective, sometimes of those who never left.
Some stories are more captivating than others. Some dragged a little
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-20-17
Read it, but don't listen to it.
The narration is too monotone. Key moments in stories shoot by since not much inflection is used.
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- ssk
- 11-21-23
Excellent
Intriguing stories full of touching details and memorable portrayals of Vietnamese refugees, old, young, confident, reticent, rigid amd flexible but always realistic and memorable. i loved it!
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- James Matichuk
- 09-20-19
great refugee stories
A series of short stories about vietnamese refugees. Engaging story telling and varied. I liked it
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- P Proffer
- 02-19-18
An interesting combination of stories.
It was a very heartfelt combination of stories and I was surprised that I enjoyed it very much.
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- just asking for some common sense
- 09-09-17
Excellent collection of stories
I don't normally but collections of short stories, but I bought this at the same time as I bought one of his books. I haven't listened to the book yet, but if it's as good as the stories I know I'll like it. He also narrates the book and I did enjoy the narration. If course now I always listen to an audio sample and I don't buy books if I don't like the sound of the narrator's voice.
The reason that I like this so much is that almost every story left me wanting more. Almost all the main characters could be fleshed out in novel length and I would be interested in that novel.
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