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This haunting memoir tells the brutal story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of an innocent victim whose childhood was dominated by violence, devastation, and conflicts between the teachings of her culture and the realities of war. The youngest in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was 12 years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her village. She was raped and "ruined" for marriage by Viet Cong soldiers, imprisoned and tortured by the South Vietnamese, and sentenced to death by the Viet Cong. Ultimately fleeing to the U.S. with her children, she finally found peace, and in 1986, she was reunited with her family in Vietnam. The story of her homecoming, interwoven with her memories of the war years, paints a vivid picture of a noble, optimistic woman and her native country.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to listen to
- De heatherhg en 07-01-07
De: Le Ly Hayslip, y otros
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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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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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Green City in the Sun
- De: Barbara Wood
- Narrado por: Edie Tusor
- Duración: 27 h y 56 m
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In 1917 Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with those of the Mathenge tribe, an African family that has lived on the land for years. Grace soon finds a deadly rival in Mama Wachera, an African medicine woman who fights to maintain native traditions against the encroaching whites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De nancy wanty en 12-18-23
De: Barbara Wood
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Wife of the Gods
- A Novel
- De: Kwei Quartey
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 269
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Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu---the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago---to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker. While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing Mystery in a Fascinating Setting
- De Tracey Rains en 04-19-10
De: Kwei Quartey
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A Spear of Summer Grass
- De: Deanna Raybourn
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 220
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The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides. Fairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Vinity en 07-13-13
De: Deanna Raybourn
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Tears of the Desert
- A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
- De: Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Halima Bashir was born into the Zaghawa tribe, whose customs have remained unchanged for centuries, in the remote western deserts of Sudan in the region of South Darfur. Halima's father named his daughter after the traditional medicine woman of the village, and she grew up in a happy and close-knit childhood environment. Her father became a wealthy man by his tribe's standards, so he could afford to send Halima to school and university. Halima went on to study medicine, and at 24 she returned to her tribe and began practicing as their first ever qualified doctor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story that takes you there
- De Justicepirate en 05-22-17
De: Halima Bashir, y otros
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Wicked
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
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Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's not easy being green
- De PangaeaReads en 07-30-08
De: Gregory Maguire
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King Peggy
- An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
- De: Eleanor Herman, Peggielene Bartels
- Narrado por: J. Karen Thomas
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of an American secretary who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 souls on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, and no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love King Peggy!
- De Monica en 05-01-13
De: Eleanor Herman, y otros
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Hour of the Hunter
- De: J. A. Jance
- Narrado por: Gene Engene
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 235
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A brutal, psychopathic murderer is released from prison - and stalks his prey with intent to kill.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hour of the Hunter
- De Marion Burke en 03-01-08
De: J. A. Jance
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Shalimar the Clown
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Aasif Mandvi
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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When Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophuls is the former U.S. ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counter-terrorism. But there is much more to Ophuls and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown", than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history, a history of betrayal and deception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- De Barry en 12-07-05
De: Salman Rushdie
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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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3 out of 5 stars
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The performance is enchanting.
- De Kelly en 05-04-18
De: Salman Rushdie
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The Hundred Wells of Salaga
- A Novel
- De: Ayesha Harruna Attah
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
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The Vagrants
- De: Yiyun Li
- Narrado por: Jackie Chung
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Lovely prose, good story, deadly narration
- De Athene en 05-10-13
De: Yiyun Li
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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Glory Road
- De: Robert A. Heinlein
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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. C. “Scar” Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia, but he hadn’t given up his habit of scanning the personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular leapt out at him: "Are you a coward? This is not for you. We badly need a brave man. He must be 23 to 25 years old, in perfect health, at least six feet tall, weigh about 190 pounds, fluent English with some French, proficient with all weapons, some knowledge of engineering and mathematics essential...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heinlein's great story, a glorious spin by Pinchot
- De BRKyle en 09-19-12
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The Story Hour
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stellar performance almost carried the book...
- De Daryl en 03-04-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,268
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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- 03-08-23
Not your everyday mystery!
Fantastic story that unfolded masterfully! It wasn't a straightforward mystery (to my relief) and I learned a lot of historical, cultural, and scientific things that will stick with me for a long time. If you're tired of the formulaic stories that are being cranked out like Peeps on an assembly line, try this audiobook! (Note: I listened at 1.2 speed. A slower narration may feel draggy.)
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- Jackie Houchin
- 12-27-19
Mesmerizing!
A eye opening story of the Belgium Congo at the brink of Independence. A white woman missionary is placed in the middle of greed, murder, theft, diamonds, and racial tensions. But what can one woman do??
Just wait! Read the story and you will see. You won't be sorry and you'll be eager to continue the tale in book two.
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- KC Burrows
- 04-03-16
Excellent!
The story was engaging. The additional insights on Congo wildlife and culture was a treat. They unravelled the mystery in a clever and intriguing way and right up to the end kept me interested in a great story. I WILL read on!
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