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The Glass Kingdom
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A tense, stunningly well-observed novel of a young American on the run, from Lawrence Osborne, “an heir to Graham Greene” (The New York Times Book Review).
“Bangkok is the star of this accomplished novel. Its denizens are aliens to themselves, glittering on the horizon of their own lives, moving - restless and rootless and afraid - though a cityscape that has more stories than they know.” (Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies)
Escaping New York for the anonymity of Bangkok, Sarah Mullins arrives in Thailand on the lam with nothing more than a suitcase of purloined money. Her plan is to lie low and map out her next move in a high-end apartment complex called the Kingdom, whose glass-fronted façade boasts views of the bustling city and glimpses into the vast honeycomb of lives within.
It is not long before she meets the alluring Mali doing laps in the apartment pool, a fellow tenant determined to bring the quiet American out of her shell. An invitation to Mali’s weekly poker nights follows, and - fueled by shots of yadong, good food, and gossip - Sarah soon falls in with the Kingdom’s glamorous circle of expat women. But as political chaos erupts on the streets below and attempted uprisings wrack the city, tensions tighten within the gilded compound.
When the violence outside begins to invade the Kingdom in a series of strange disappearances, the residents are thrown into suspicion: both of the world beyond their windows and of one another. And under the constant surveillance of the building’s watchful inhabitants, Sarah’s safe haven begins to feel like a snare.
From a master of atmosphere and mood, The Glass Kingdom is a brilliantly unsettling story of civil and psychological unrest and an enthralling study of karma and human greed.
Reseñas de la Crítica
“Exceptional descriptive skills fuel an overwhelming sense of menace: It is no mean feat to make the ending of a novel truly shocking.... The next day you will still be thinking of Sarah’s fate with horror.” (The New York Times Book Review)
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A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of 19th-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house's resident spirits. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember.
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Maybe the worst narration ever
- De yorick en 01-12-20
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The Forgiven
- A Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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In this stylish, haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party.
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Riveting
- De Anonymous User en 06-09-22
De: Lawrence Osborne
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Hunters in the Dark
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh, and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense. Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve - pushing 30 and eager to sidestep a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go AWOL. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future.
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Graham Greene
- De Foxhuntingman en 02-26-16
De: Lawrence Osborne
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Beautiful Animals
- A Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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On a hike during a white-hot summer break on the Greek island of Hydra, Naomi and Samantha make a startling discovery: a man named Faoud, sleeping heavily, exposed to the elements, but still alive. As the two women learn more about the man, a migrant from Syria and a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean Sea, their own burgeoning friendship intensifies. But when their seemingly simple plan to help Faoud unravels, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.
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- De S. Liskey en 07-20-17
De: Lawrence Osborne
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On Java Road
- A Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Michael Obiora
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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After two decades as a journalist in Hong Kong, ex-pat Englishman Adrian Gyle has very little to show for it. Evenings are whiled away with soup dumplings and tea at Fung Shing, the restaurant downstairs from his home on Java Road, watching the city erupt in violence as pro-democracy demonstrations hit ever closer to home. Watching from the skyrises is Adrian’s old friend Jimmy Tang, the scion of one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest families. Just as Gyle prepares to turn his back on Hong Kong, he finds one last intrigue: Rebecca, a student involved in the protests.
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Another winning novel by Laurence Osborne
- De Reed Ramlow en 09-26-22
De: Lawrence Osborne
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Only to Sleep
- A Philip Marlowe Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
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The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his 72nd year - is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn - supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But is Zinn actually alive?
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Brilliant resurrection of greatest detective in US fiction
- De R. G. Shalhoub en 07-28-18
De: Lawrence Osborne
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Bangkok Wakes to Rain
- A Novel
- De: Pitchaya Sudbanthad
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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A missionary doctor pines for his native New England even as he succumbs to the vibrant chaos of 19th-century Siam. A post-World War II society woman marries, mothers, and holds court, little suspecting her solitary fate. A jazz pianist in the age of rock, haunted by his own ghosts, is summoned to appease the house's resident spirits. In the present, a young woman tries to outpace the long shadow of her political past. And in a New Krungthep yet to come, savvy teenagers row tourists past landmarks of the drowned old city they themselves do not remember.
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Maybe the worst narration ever
- De yorick en 01-12-20
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The Forgiven
- A Novel
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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In this stylish, haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party.
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Riveting
- De Anonymous User en 06-09-22
De: Lawrence Osborne
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Hunters in the Dark
- De: Lawrence Osborne
- Narrado por: Stephen Hogan
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh, and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense. Adrift in Cambodia, Robert Grieve - pushing 30 and eager to sidestep a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go AWOL. As he crosses the border from Thailand, he tests the threshold of a new future.
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Graham Greene
- De Foxhuntingman en 02-26-16
De: Lawrence Osborne
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The Boy in the Field
- A Novel
- De: Margot Livesey
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy’s life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim’s brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, looks back.
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Disappointed
- De LinZ en 10-25-20
De: Margot Livesey
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Everywhere You Don't Belong
- De: Gabriel Bump
- Narrado por: Korey Jackson
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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In this powerful, edgy, and funny debut novel about making right and wrong choices, Bump gives us an unforgettable and lovable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude is a young black man in search of a place where he can fit; born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights-era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change. After a riot consumes his neighborhood, Claude decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new life and identity. But he discovers, there's no escaping the people and places that made him.
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Great coming of age story...
- De Roslynde en 11-25-20
De: Gabriel Bump
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Beheld
- De: TaraShea Nesbit
- Narrado por: Bea Holland, Crystal Clarke, Lance C. Fuller, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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Ten years after the Mayflower pilgrims arrived on rocky, unfamiliar soil, Plymouth is not the land its residents had imagined. Seemingly established on a dream of religious freedom, in reality the town is led by fervent puritans who prohibit the residents from living, trading and worshipping as they choose. By the time an unfamiliar ship, bearing new colonists, appears on the horizon one summer morning, Anglican outsiders have had enough.
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- De DFK en 11-18-20
De: TaraShea Nesbit
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The Mercies
- De: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Narrado por: Jessie Buckley
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa.
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The Mercies is a Strong and Moving Story, Not to be Missed
- De Lenore Poyer en 02-29-20
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A Separation
- A Novel
- De: Katie Kitamura
- Narrado por: Katherine Waterston
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband: It's time for them to separate. For the moment it's a private matter, a secret between the two of them. As she begins her new life, she gets word that Christopher has gone missing in a remote region in the rugged south of Greece; she reluctantly agrees to go look for him, still keeping their split to herself. In her heart she's not even sure if she wants to find him.
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Not a Thriller, but Still Great
- De Michael - Audible Editor en 02-09-17
De: Katie Kitamura
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The Return of Faraz Ali
- A Novel
- De: Aamina Ahmad
- Narrado por: Homer Todiwala, Nina Wadia
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women continue to pass down the art of courtesan from mother to daughter. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore, installing him as head of the Mohalla police station and charging him with a mission: to cover up the violent death of a young girl.
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Awful narration
- De Anonymous User en 04-09-22
De: Aamina Ahmad
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Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Daisy Johnson
- Narrado por: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anna Koval
- Duración: 4 h y 35 m
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Born just 10 months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house.
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Good Not Great
- De cindy en 09-10-20
De: Daisy Johnson
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The Bangalore Detectives Club
- De: Harini Nagendra
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry handsome young doctor Ramu, she’s resigned herself to a quiet life. But that all changes the night of the party at the Century Club, where she escapes to the garden for some peace and quiet—and instead spots an uninvited guest in the shadows. Half an hour later, the party turns into a murder scene. When a vulnerable woman is connected to the crime, Kaveri becomes determined to save her and launches a private investigation to find the killer, tracing his steps from an illustrious brothel to an Englishman’s mansion.
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Good concept, poor execution
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-22
De: Harini Nagendra
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The Old Woman with the Knife
- A Novel
- De: Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim - translator
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age—that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin. Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses—for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she's known about her targets, the better. But now, nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up.
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best geriatric assassin EVER!
- De Barbara S en 04-10-22
De: Gu Byeong-mo, y otros
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The Truth and Other Lies
- A Novel
- De: Sascha Arango
- Narrado por: Corey Brill
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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On the surface Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like or even admire. A famous, best-selling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires. A generous friend and coworker. But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a secret, his methods more so. No one besides him and his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that made him famous.
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Wrong Narrator?
- De Bob en 09-09-15
De: Sascha Arango
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Strange Beasts of China
- De: Yan Ge
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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In the fictional Chinese city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness - save their greenish skin, serrated earlobes, and strange birthmarks. Aided by her elusive former professor and his enigmatic assistant, our narrator sets off to document each beast and is slowly drawn deeper into a mystery that threatens her very sense of self.
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Snooze!
- De jinxologue en 09-20-21
De: Yan Ge
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Hokuloa Road
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawaiʻi, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island’s idyllic reputation: it has long been a place where people vanish without a trace. When a young woman from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined—and soon desperate—to figure out what's happened to Jessie, and to all those staring out of the island’s “missing" posters.
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“There’s something happening here…”
- De Michael Ferris en 09-06-22
De: Elizabeth Hand
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Glass Kingdom
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- Reed Ramlow
- 12-29-21
A decent entry by Osborne
Enjoyed this, but Hunters in the Dark was the better effort by Osborne. An excellent rendering of Bangkok and its expats.
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- John
- 06-09-24
Moody Novel
I most enjoyed the moody, languid atmosphere in this novel. It’s almost a character in itself.
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- Lilly Marlène
- 12-15-20
Mediocre story + mediocre narrator
A book that starts fairly interestingly, but looses momentum quite quickly and subsequently fails to hold the listener's interest. The narrator seems quite inexperienced as well. I gave it two stars for "meh."
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- Billye Kay
- 08-29-21
Nothing Happens By Chance
The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne is an intruiging story in a beautiful and mysterious setting. The protagonist is a young literary assistant who uses her position of trust to abscond with a large amount of money. She hides in Bangkok, Thailand and soon falls in with a small group of young women who are each also shady in their own ways. The setting, culture, and political events push and pull the story and the characters. The story is fast moving and well written. The characters are complicated and simple at the same time. The narration performance by Sura Siu supports the story and brings it to life very well. This book exceeded my expectations. I would recommend this to readers who enjoy stories about crime, mysteries, exotic settings, culture clashes, and Karma.
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- California Guy
- 09-06-20
Osborne has a handle on internal struggles
I like reading novels no one else could have written and The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne is one such book. As with many of Osborne's books it is setting driven with characters mixed in that pair well with the locale. As for the plot The Glass Kingdom is an improvement over Beautiful Animals, Osborne's previous novel, particularly in the writing of the American woman, Sarah Jennings - very believable. Are there implausibilities? Sure. But never enough to ruin the story. In writing the characters Osborne contrasts the East vs the West with the East scoring most of the advantages. His distinctions between the Japanese salarymen in Bangkok vs the American expats are spot on. A brooding and moody tale with a slow-burning fuse - I went back and forth between the hardcover and the audio book. My plan was to finish up on paper but I so enjoyed the voice work of Sura Siu that I went with an aural ending. It would have been fine either way. Whether you love or hate Thailand there will be much to love about The Glass Kingdom and a bit to hate too. Like a good martini with a lot of bitters - how it goes down will depend on your taste. A Yin Yang story with emphasis on the Yings. Stylish to the very end.
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- Josh
- 05-08-22
Dont buy, narrator intolerable!
The narrator breaks the sentences up inappropriately into phrases pitched in a sing-song cadence that distracts from the meaning of the text, as if concentrating on pronunciation at the cost of overall meaning.
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- Sean Ramsay
- 09-14-20
Of the few I’ve read, it’s Lawrence Osborne’s best
I know Bangkok. I know those characters. But now I know them much better. And I believe them. Osborne’s roaming voice is very compelling. The heavy existential foreboding is something akin to Andre Malraux, dark and hidden. When the new lost soul washes up on the shores of the lovely dreamscape where antiquity and the modern mingle and morph, I’m with it all the way. Especially like the end. It’s so masterfully insightful, seems quite magical.
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