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The Last Days of Café Leila
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- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 08-08-17
- Language: English
- Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Regular price: $24.49
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Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming.
When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Cafe Leila, the restaurant her family has been running for three generations. Iran may have changed, but Cafe Leila, still run by Zod, has stayed blessedly the same - it is a refuge of laughter and solace for its makeshift family of staff and regulars.
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- Sishab
- 05-17-18
Vile narrator
The narrator is so bad, she makes the audio book really hard to listen to. The narrator has an Indian accent which has nothing to do Persian/Iranian accent. The story is lovely but the narration’s performance is simply odious. Especially when she speaks as the male characters of the story, she makes a weak and revolting noise as if the voice is coming out of a ghost’s mouth!!
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- Nilou
- 11-09-17
The narrator is incredibly annoying
The narrator is not a native English speaker. She has a hard time pronouncing English words, is just terrible in pronouncing Persian, Spanish, French and Russian too. I understand that you don’t need to be fluent in all to be able to deliver well but they could’ve at least chosen someone who was familiar with Persian.
She attempts at different voices and accents but they all come out as an exhausted, old man. Everyone speaks with what is her attempt at a Russian accent. It’s just terrible. It’s so annoying to listen to. I’m not sure who chose this narrator but they failed miserably.
Such a shame since the story is great and Donia Bijan is an amazing writer.
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- Ellen H. G. Culpepper
- Bloomington, IL
- 10-23-17
Deeply Satisfying
Well developed characters weave a rich story. Sensuous food and flowers evoke taste and smell with a mastery rare in fiction. The characters' relationships and decisions stir me to continuing reflection on how I myself want to choose to live. A lavish story.
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- Estelle
- 08-21-17
Dont listen, maybe read!
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Nothing
Has The Last Days of Café Leila turned you off from other books in this genre?
Not the book as much as the dreadful narration!
How could the performance have been better?
Listening to the narrator has been my worst audible experience ever.
Any additional comments?
This book's potential is hugely influenced by the very poor narration.
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- Dee Dee D Blair
- 04-04-18
Unrealistic ending I would never believe someone would leave their child who is still in high school. And remain in Iran
Too repetitive and predictable except the ending .
Too much discussion on cooking.
I don’t believe someone would put the child last.
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