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From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the '30s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the territory of New Guinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers' deaths and increasingly frustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicide when a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and her wry and mercurial Australian husband, Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nell and Fen have just fled the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo and, in spite of Nell's poor health, are hungry for a new discovery. When Bankson finds them a new tribe nearby - the artistic, female-dominated Tam - he ignites an intellectual and romantic firestorm between the three of them that burns out of anyone's control.
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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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Disappointed
- By Vinity on 07-13-13
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Amy Tan, Joan Chen
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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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Exceptionally good
- By Eileen Finn on 03-25-03
By: Amy Tan
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The Vine of Desire
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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Vine of desire
- By Mz Shantay on 03-27-21
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White Dog Fell from the Sky
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Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force.
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Unexpectedly Stunning Work!
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East of the Sun
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Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
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By: Julia Gregson
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Lighthouse Bay
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This breathtaking novel travels more than a century between two love stories set in the Australian seaside town of Lighthouse Bay. In 1901, a ship sinks off the coast of Lighthouse Bay in Australia. The only survivor is Isabella Winterbourne - escaping her loveless marriage and the devastating loss of her son - who clutches a priceless gift meant for the Australian Parliament. Suddenly, this gift could be her ticket to a new life, free from the bonds of her husband and his overbearing family.
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Excellent story!
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From the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder. Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate, and this will be a summer of good-byes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember.
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Freshwater Pearls and Scottish Plaid
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The Plague of Doves
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
- By Andre on 05-16-08
By: Louise Erdrich
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.
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Performance makes a fatal mistake. No Trini accent
- By Christopher on 01-04-19
By: V. S. Naipaul
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
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England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery.
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Mixed narration
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By: Jessie Burton
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- tooonce72
- 12-18-14
The story you think you know is never the real one
This is such a powerful book. A breathtaking tale of three Anthropologists studying tribes in New Guinea, in the 1930’s, it’s history when there were still discoveries made on this planet. Based loosely on the lives of Margaret Mead and her second and third husband, the love triangle develops into an intense character study that will have you feeling for each person at more than one point. The underlying tension that the author builds within the story is outstanding. I also liked how she was able to use small antidotes and scenes to paint whole pictures. The short sex scene in the first chapter just lays out every single thing you need to know about this couple’s marriage. What an extremely talented author.
I thought the audiobook was just a perfect means to tell this story. I enjoyed both of the narrators personally.
I can’t imagine a better, more surprising ending. I re-listened to the last several chapters several times because I was just so surprised by it.
If you were on MY Christmas list - you would alllll be getting this book.
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- Lori K.
- 08-28-15
Sublime!
I loved this book. I had resisted getting it, because of the "love triangle" thing, figuring it would just be some stupid soap opera. But it wasn't! It was beautifully done. The descriptions of the places these anthropologists were working, the portrayal of the relationship between the Nell and Fen, and the development of their friendship with Bankson-- all of it was sublimely done! This is one of those books that will stick with me because I could picture it all so well. I don't even want to see it as a movie- because movies always steal the scenes I've made up in my head while reading, and I love them and want to keep them there :-) The narration was perfect!
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- Ms Abigail E. Thomas
- 05-11-15
Great story, poor narration
Didn't like the female narrator's voice - very grating.
The male narrator was good but the female voice was very husky.
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- MimiK
- 05-04-20
Beautiful Story
This is a story that touches a reader's heart in so many ways. It will be remembered and is worthy of reading more than once. Narration is beautifully done.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-22-21
Euphoria
A timely and compelling tale about white man’s greed and his inability to refrain from milking the bounty of the earth and those populations that hold it fast to their soul. It is a love story where to souls connect in a spiritual and momentous way. The descriptions are vivid and if you close your eyes you can feel yourself walking about these villages. Imagine being a modern day white man coming across these indigenous peoples and trying to understand their culture rather than possess it. I can recall walking about the museum of natural history when I was a small girl and staring with fascination in the halls of the indigenous peoples. I marveled at the totems and the jewelry and was transfixed. I have both read this book and listened to the Audible presentation and without a doubt the voices in this presentation are superb
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- Chiti Kaunda
- 10-29-18
Was this the life of a 1930s anthropologist?
For a book that used Jane Goodall as its muse, I couldn't help but wonder why we had to indulge in a love triangle for the sake of the arc of the story. I found the characterizations of the tribe that the 3 europeans were studying as derogatory but also belieavable asmost of the book framed Western philosophy as the normal. There were other times when several of the protagonists pushed back against this but I could not take it seriously.
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- Angela
- 06-26-23
This was so interesting
I don’t really care if the anthropologic soundness of this is flawed. What struck and strikes me anytime I read or listen to stories of “primitive” people is the presumptive nature of people from the West. I’ll never understand the need to insert ourselves into traditions and beliefs of other cultures and expect to be given answers. I can say confidently that if some person from somewhere else came to “study and observe” me, I would not like it and would likely not tell all my truth. I believe the author’s purpose in the writing of this book is multi-faceted and I’m grateful it was written. Highly recommend if you enjoy historical fiction with a message.
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- David
- 08-21-14
Anthropologists in Love
Euphoria presents a classic love triangle among three anthropologists in New Guinea between the world wars. The main charcter is Nell Stone, modeled after Margaret Mead, a free-thinking, insightful, deeply empathetic student of native cultures. Her husband Fen is her opposite, cynical, greedy and dismissive of local sentiments. Between them comes Bankson, the narrator, looking back years later on their brief time together in a small village, trying to control their lusts but not their ambitions. The story is well told, more absorbing and suspenseful as the book progresses. The author, like Nell, has a quick feel for other characters. Minor characters are well drawn with a few telling details. You especially feel for several of the villagers whose lives are changed by their observers.
The audiobook has a serious flaw, namely, the drab narration by Simon Vance. Bankson should be an energetic, passionate, vibrant young force of nature, despite his failed suicide attempt at the novel's start. Instead, Vance reads as a depressed and weary old man. This drains the novel of much of its excitement. Xe Sands, reading as Nell Stone, is far better, with the right enthusiasm and wonder in her voice. Overall, however, this was an excellent book.
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- Syd Young
- 03-17-15
Mesmerizing
I've been taken somewhere deep in my memories, to a place I've never been. At once Out of Africa and Casablanca, and do worth it.
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- Marjorie
- 07-09-15
Transporting, Intelligent, Beautiful
Lily King's novel, "Euphoria", transported me into the jungle of New Guinea in the early 30's. It was a fascinating journey into the minds of the three main characters (Nel, Fen, and Bankson) each of whom were involved in anthropological studies of the tribes along the Sepik River. The novel is told mainly in retrospection by "Banks" but also includes the voice of "Nel" and her husband "Fen". Nel (whose character is based on the life of Margaret Mead) excites Bankson with her intellect and her brash ability to ask questions and explore the cultures while forming relationships and helping others in the tribes. She invigorates his work with her excitement and he falls in love with her. Utilizing exquisite literary abilities, Ms. King is able to create scenes where I felt I could practically smell the stench of Nel's festering wounds and feel the heat of the jungle. I was captivated by the intelligent curiosity of the characters and by the story itself which is believable (it is historical fiction), exotic, tense, rich with emotion, and full of history. The tribes' people during the years involved were largely untouched by European culture and the glimpses into tribal rituals and practices were fascinating and engrossing. Also explored in the novel was the fierce competition between the archeologists and the havoc such competition created. This was a relatively short novel and engrossing throughout. The narrators were absolutely flawless. If you are one who enjoys a love story, adventure, intellect, and history - this novel has it all. I highly recommend.
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