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An astonishing, energetic reading by Daljit Nagra of his own hugely acclaimed poetry. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Award. Shortilsted for the Guardian First Book Award and winner of the South Bank Show, Arts Council Decibel Award 2008.
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Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soul mate, your old friend, and I have come back to this city of 16 million in search of you. So begins the first letter that falls into Wang's lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi. The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang's previous lives - from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What was that you said?
- De cecil reniche-smith en 08-29-15
De: Susan Barker
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors
- De: Nayomi Munaweera
- Narrado por: Priya Ayyar
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 101
Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pronunciation
- De Mahidevran en 04-07-18
De: Nayomi Munaweera
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Lisette Lecat
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 785
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 781
Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An African Childhood of Harrowing Proportions
- De Sara en 10-12-15
De: Alexandra Fuller
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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
- De: Monique Roffey
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 87
A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad. Monique Roffey's Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of post-colonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy. When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England, George is immediately seduced by the beguiling island, while Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill-at-ease.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing.
- De Crystal en 10-31-12
De: Monique Roffey
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Owls Do Cry
- De: Janet Frame
- Narrado por: Heather Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her idea behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: 'Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters.'
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4 out of 5 stars
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well told but a wee bit depressing.
- De Muzza en 11-03-19
De: Janet Frame
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Disappearing Act
- A Host of Other Characters in 16 Short Stories
- De: Robert Sheehan
- Narrado por: Robert Sheehan
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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as strange as he is
- De DEKEY en 04-08-24
De: Robert Sheehan
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The Shell Collector
- De: Anthony Doerr
- Narrado por: Hakeem Kae Kazim
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 308
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 263
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 264
The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take listeners from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties - metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts - and conjures nature in both its beautiful abundance and crushing power.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator not appropriate to the book.
- De Janet en 02-18-17
De: Anthony Doerr
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Nothing with Strings
- NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
- De: Bailey White
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The mundane and the miraculous stand side by side in these sketches and stories of Southern small-time life by the author of Quite a Year for Plums.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real jewel.
- De Mary en 12-31-08
De: Bailey White
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Jerusalem Maiden
- De: Talia Carner
- Narrado por: Lise Bruneau
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God....
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4 out of 5 stars
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No dreaming, No painting, No thinking . . .
- De Debbie en 04-18-15
De: Talia Carner
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Holy Cow!
- An Indian Adventure
- De: Sarah Macdonald
- Narrado por: Kate Hosking
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 874
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 405
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 408
After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love - she screams 'Never!' and gives the country, and him, the finger.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring and witty
- De Meredith en 08-09-05
De: Sarah Macdonald
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
- De: Truman Capote
- Narrado por: Cody Roberts
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Capote’s coming of age story
- De Daniel Diffin en 11-08-23
De: Truman Capote
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 403
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 402
Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Kate Atkinson multi-generational story
- De Satisfied Customer en 11-08-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English
- De: Natasha Solomons
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 82
At the start of World War II, Jack and Sadie Rosenblum flee Berlin for London with their baby daughter, Elizabeth. Upon arrival, Jack receives a pamphlet from the German Jewish Aid Committee on how to act like a proper Englishman. He follows it to the letter -Saville Row suits, the BBC, trips to Covent Garden, a Jaguar - and it works like a charm. The Rosenblums settle into a prosperous new life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Endearing
- De Emily en 09-09-11
De: Natasha Solomons
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Radiance
- De: Catherynne M. Valente
- Narrado por: Heath Miller
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 130
Severin Unck's father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father's films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected and tons of fun
- De Kate en 11-17-15
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The Secret Life of Mrs. London
- De: Rebecca Rosenberg
- Narrado por: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn't see it that way...until Charmian is pulled from the audience during a magic show by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man enmeshed in his own complicated marriage. Suddenly charmed, Charmian's eyes open to a world of possibilities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Who Knew...?
- De L. Ronayne en 05-04-18
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Make Something Up
- Stories You Can't Unread
- De: Chuck Palahniuk
- Narrado por: Chuck Palahniuk, Scott Sowers, Rich Orlow, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 481
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 433
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 430
For years Chuck Palahniuk has reserved his best storytelling for his readings, often choosing to read a new short story instead of whatever novel he is supposed to be promoting. Make Something Up compiles these previously unpublished tales for the very first time, plus the Byliner social media insta-classic "Phoenix" and Palahniuk's most notable pieces from Playboy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Plenty of shock, just not enough Palahniuk awe
- De Darwin8u en 06-10-15
De: Chuck Palahniuk
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Sold
- De: Patricia McCormick
- Narrado por: Justine Eyre
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,789
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,581
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,574
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfectly Haunting....
- De Theodore en 01-13-13
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The Kite Runner
- De: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrado por: Khaled Hosseini
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,238
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,064
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,070
Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Worhty Read
- De P. C..S. en 08-17-03
De: Khaled Hosseini