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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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The Complete Stories
- De: Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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My Name Is Red
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Erdag Goknar - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 554
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 417
At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of 16th-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and interesting
- De Kathleen en 05-13-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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The Book of Longings
- A Novel
- De: Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marnò, Sue Monk Kidd
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,824
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,091
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,060
In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with 18-year-old Jesus changes everything.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Made me cringe
- De Joan en 05-08-20
De: Sue Monk Kidd
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Of Love and Other Demons
- De: Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrado por: Christopher Salazar
- Duración: 5 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love/Religion/Family: Making people nuts for years
- De Darwin8u en 09-04-23
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A Grain of Wheat
- De: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of Kenya's Great
- De Afro History fan en 07-31-19
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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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1 out of 5 stars
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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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One Hundred Years of Solitude
- De: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa - translator
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 6,140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,376
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5,378
One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich and brilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the beautiful, ridiculous, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What in the heck happened?????
- De Melinda en 02-05-14
De: Gabriel García Márquez, y otros
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Daughter of Fortune
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 365
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 325
Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An adventure to the California Gold Fields of 1849
- De Jean en 07-20-20
De: Isabel Allende
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Master
- De: Toni Sorenson
- Narrado por: Dave Maller
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 92
My name will mean nothing to you, but my story is a re-telling of the greatest story ever told and should mean everything to everyone. My story comes forth now because now is the promised day when satanic doubt spreads like black ink, threatening to blot out His very name, to reduce Him to nothing more than a teacher, to erase the eternal truths He taught and Lived. That cannot happen. Jesus was who He said He was. I know because I was there in the shadows of His holy footsteps. His miracles were real. I know because I am one of those miracles.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Master l wonder if Judas had repented of the sin
- De sharon en 01-10-20
De: Toni Sorenson
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Anticipation
- A Novel
- De: Melodie Winawer
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy, Samantha Desz, Jonathan Davis, y otros
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 176
From the author of the “engrossing historical epic” (Booklist) The Scribe of Siena comes a thrilling tale set in the crumbling city of Mystras, Greece, in which a scientist’s vacation with her young son quickly turns into a fight for their lives after they cross paths with a man out of time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical novel with a twist
- De Jbbee en 07-05-22
De: Melodie Winawer
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.
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Siddhartha
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Harish Bhimani
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 149
Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, takes place in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC). Siddhartha and his companion Govinda set out in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha goes through a series of changes and realizations as he attempts to achieve this goal. Siddhartha joins the ascetics, visits Gotama, embraces his earthly desires, and finally communes with nature, all in an attempt to attain Nirvana.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sounds rushed
- De Viviane en 10-17-11
De: Hermann Hesse
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The Magician of Lublin
- De: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Narrado por: Larry Keith
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
The Magician can dazzle the crowds with his sleight of hand, climb to any height, open any lock. Fearlessly, he does death-defying tricks in theaters all over Poland. At home, his sweet Jewish wife waits for him to return from the city. In the city, his adoring mistresses wait for him to return from home. He holds the key to all hearts, but his own is beset with confusion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex Masterpiece
- De Evan en 09-11-08
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,117
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,845
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,852
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende