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In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy.
Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives.
Acclaimed for her richly drawn characters and vivid storytelling, Lisa See once again renders a family challenged by tragedy and time, yet ultimately united by the resilience of love.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“See’s emotional themes are powerful... the bonds of sisterhood [and] the psychological journey of becoming an American.” (The Washington Post)
“A broadly sweeping tale.... The detail is thoughtful and intricate.” (The New York Times)
“[See evokes] a time and place with tantalizing detail.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
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- Narrado por: Janet Song
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Born in 1970s North Korea, Lucia Jang grew up in a typical household - her parents worked in the factories, and the family scraped by on rations. Nightly she bowed to her photo of Kim Il-Sung. It was the beginning of a chaotic period with a decade-long famine. Jang married an abusive man who sold their baby. She left him and went home to help her family by illegally crossing the river to China to trade goods. She was caught and imprisoned twice.
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Fantastic story. Well read.
- De Jfm en 02-20-16
De: Lucia Jang, y otros
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Mosaic
- De: Diane Armstrong
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
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>i>Mosaic is compelling storytelling at its best - from the fascinating details of Polish-Jewish culture and the rivalries and dramas of family life, to its moving account of lives torn apart by war and persecution, this an extraordinary true story of a family, and of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage.
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Absolutely excellent!
- De Roberta en 09-22-11
De: Diane Armstrong
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Grand Central
- Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion
- De: Melanie Benjamin, Amanda Hodgkinson, Pam Jenoff, y otros
- Narrado por: Carla Mercer-Meyer
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On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell.
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Grand Central: Memories
- De ZacharyKindle Customer en 05-03-17
De: Melanie Benjamin, y otros
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Flame Tree Road
- De: Shona Patel
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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India, 1870s. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood - shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance - Biren devotes his life to effecting change.
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Riveting Love Story
- De Granny en 01-15-20
De: Shona Patel
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- De: Naomi Jackson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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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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Beautifully written
- De nancy wanty en 12-18-23
De: Barbara Wood
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When the Moon Is Low
- A Novel
- De: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan, Neil Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.
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Good story. Poor ending
- De Janine en 01-14-22
De: Nadia Hashimi
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- De: Brigid Pasulka
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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The novel opens on the eve of World War II. In the mountain village of Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon, under the approving eyes of the entire village, courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanska. But the war's arrival wreaks havoc in all their lives and delays their marriage for six long years.
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The Old & New Worlds Converge & Transcend Time
- De Sara en 11-22-16
De: Brigid Pasulka
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Golden Earrings
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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Catalina, grand-daughter of Spanish refugees, is a disciplined student with the School of the Paris Opera Ballet. Little gets inthe way of her career until the visit of an otherworldly being, who leaves her a mysterious pair of golden earrings. Given a quest, Catalina realises she must explore her own Spanish heritage and makes the connection between the visitor and ‘La Rusa’, a young Andalusian flamenco star. La Rusa died in exile in Paris in 1952, her death ruled as suicide. But as Catalina begins to discover, there were those in the community, who had good reason for wanting La Rusa dead.
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Fabulous story
- De Paddington en 10-19-12
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Esperanza Rising
- De: Pam Munoz Ryan
- Narrado por: Trini Alvarado
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
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Esperanza Ortega possesses all the treasures a young girl in Aguascalientes, Mexico could want. But a sudden tragedy shatters that dream, forcing Esperanza and Mama to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp. There they confront the challenges of hard work, acceptance by their own people, and economic difficulties brought on by the Great Depression. Pam Munoz Ryan eloquently portrays the Mexican workers' plight in this abundant and passionate novel.
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GET THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW
- De Laura en 04-14-16
De: Pam Munoz Ryan
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Homeless Bird
- De: Gloria Whelan
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
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Like many girls her age in India, thirteen-year-old Koly faces her arranged marriage with hope and courage. But Koly's story takes a terrible turn when in the wake of the ceremony, she discovers she's been horribly misled—her life has been sold for a dowry. Can she forge her own future, even in the face of time-worn tradition? Perfect for schools and classrooms, this universally acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning novel by master of historical fiction Gloria Whelan is a gripping tale of hope that will transport listeners of all ages.
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A touching and beautiful story
- De C. King en 03-08-24
De: Gloria Whelan
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Loved it!
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terrible reader , not very coherent book
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***EXCELLENT*** Six stars if I could !!
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Great story...awful narration
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Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger. This beautiful, thoughtful novel illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge, engaging in dangerous, physical work, and the men take care of the children.
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Another Beautiful Novel from Lisa See!
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So so
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Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West - until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.
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Horrible narration!
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When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization - the criminal tong - brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.
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Years after her Chinese half-sister assails her with ghost stories set in the mysterious world of Yin, Olivia — a young woman from San Francisco — finds herself in China. Looking for a way to reconcile her past with dreams for her future, Olivia's American assumptions are shaken by Chinese ghosts, but she also finds reasons to hope.
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1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz - but their differences seem insurmountable....
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Soapy but fun
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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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
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Pachinko
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant - and that her lover is married - she refuses to be bought.
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wonderful book
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- Marie
- 08-06-13
Captivating and well worth a credit
Where does Dreams of Joy rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
If you have listened to the first book "Shanghai Girls" and if you liked that book, this is the sequel. In my opinion, the sequel is even better than Shanghai Girls. You will enter a world that you probably have heard of, but not really "met" in depth, such as Lisa See will introduce you too. This book enrobes part history of PROC, USA and most importantly brings you closer to understand what happens to humans when we are not allowed to be human. The book is very well researched, well written and I could not put my Ipod down! It is not predictable (whohoo)!!
What did you like best about this story?
The human aspect, the descriptions of the different characters and that is was not predictable!
Which scene was your favorite?
When Joy convinces the leader to let her send the package to her mom
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, it was - I got up this Saturday morning at 6:00 am , and I finished the remaining story at noon! What will I read next?
Any additional comments?
Excellent book, not light hearted, but not too academically hard that you can't follow the thoughts.
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- Katie
- 06-09-17
Harrowing and incredible
I was very simply completely unprepared for the journey this book took me on. After finishing Shanghai Girls, the first part of this story, I jumped directly into this book eagerly interested in finding out what happened to Pearl, Mei, and Joy. With mounting horror, I listened to the narrator's expert performance of the horrors of the famine and the Great Leap Forward, which I can unabashedly tell you is absolute nightmare fuel. Worth pursuing to the end though, as See holds your attention and the suspense until the very last moment. Highly recommended, just make sure you have someone you love to hold you tight as you pass through the story.
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- ellen
- 08-10-11
dreams of joy
another great lisa see book, looking forward to reading more of hers; narrator was terrific and love the sequel
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- Mary Webber
- 08-01-21
I love this story
Love the story and the narrator. Some comments state they don't like Janet Songs narrative style. I LOVE her voice and stylings! She's perfect for this tale.
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- meli
- 02-09-21
Wonderful Book
Full of hardship, but a beautiful story. Janet See's historical novels always please me, enjoy.
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- Susy Lamb
- 08-24-20
Lisa See does it again!
Wow!!!
This book was a full on Historica lesson on how Communism/ Socialism changed China forever.
Once again the research Lisa See does is amazing.
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- Rinda
- 03-29-15
A must read after Shanghai Girls!!
Lisa See does an excellent job with the historical back drop. Her characters are strong but extremely lovable women. Loved the book! So sad it had to come to an end. The reader, Janet Song, does an amazing job with the voices of the different characters. Actually the best I've ever listened to.
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- Jill
- 08-27-19
Pain and joy
This story was hard to listen to at times - like the author’s other work- but I’m glad I stuck it out to the end.
The horror of what happened in China during the famine of the early 60s is described in excruciating detail.
The characters are believable and the world they inhabit is clearly drawn.
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- MWG
- 08-20-22
Incredible!
This is an absolutely stunning, beautiful and unique story. I'm actually a bit speechless and sad that it's over. I highly recommend this book/audible. The narrator was perfect. The writing incredibly well researched. Wonderful characters. Had me on the edge of my seat to the end!
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- AtticusAtticus
- 11-07-23
Stick with it….
I bought it because I wanted to hear the rest of Pearl and Joy’s story. I loved it because I learned so much.
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