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Berta Isla
- By: Javier Marías
- Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda, Israel Elejalde
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
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Muy jóvenes se conocieron Berta Isla y Tomás Nevinson en Madrid, y muy pronta fue su determinación de pasar la vida juntos, sin sospechar que los aguardaba una convivencia intermitente y después una desaparición. Tomás, medio español y medio inglés, es un superdotado para las lenguas y los acentos, y eso hace que, durante sus estudios en Oxford, la Corona ponga sus ojos en él. Un día cualquiera, «un día estúpido» que se podría haber ahorrado, condicionará el resto de su existencia, así como la de su mujer.
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Muy buena producción para tan bella historia
- By Maritza Helena Bacca on 11-28-20
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Berta Isla
- Narrated by: Sol de la Barreda, Israel Elejalde
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 11-21-19
- Language: Spanish
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Berta Isla
- A Novel
- By: Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa - translator
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Bruce Mann
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson - the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomás returns to Madrid from his studies at Oxford, he is a changed man. Unbeknownst to her, he has been approached by an agent from the British intelligence services, and he has unwittingly set in motion events that will derail forever the life they had planned.
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Disappointing Marias
- By S. L. Gold on 01-16-20
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Berta Isla
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo, Bruce Mann
- Series: Nevinson, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-06-19
- Language: English
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No más amores [No More Love]
- By: Javier Marías
- Narrated by: Javier Marías
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Una recopilación de los mejores cuentos de Javier Marías, es decir, una buena muestra de los mejores cuentos que se han publicado en lengua española en los últimos años. El propio autor ha efectuado la selección, y el resultado puede considerarse muy representativo de sus técnicas narrativas y de sus principales preocupaciones, tanto literarias como intelectuales.
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Aburre al autor leer sus propias historias.
- By n on 08-09-17
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No más amores [No More Love]
- Narrated by: Javier Marías
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 08-13-15
- Language: Spanish
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Solito
- A Memoir
- By: Javier Zamora
- Narrated by: Javier Zamora
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
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Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
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MASTERPIECE of Poetic Prose, Outstanding Narration
- By Mary Burnight on 01-12-23
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Solito
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Javier Zamora
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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The World for Sale
- Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- By: Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets: enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centres.
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Explains a lot!
- By jaga on 03-24-21
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The World for Sale
- Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 02-25-21
- Language: English
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