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The House of Yan
- A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
- Narrado por: Angela Lin
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th century to present day.
The history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country's powerful elite, including Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and other top leaders. Her grandfather, Yan Baohang, originally a nationalist and close to Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, Soong May-ling, later joined the communists and worked as a secret agent for Zhou Enlai during World War II. Lan's parents were diplomats, and her father, Yan Mingfu, was Mao's personal Russian translator.
In spite of their elevated status, the Yan's family life was turned upside-down by the Cultural Revolution. One night in 1967, in front of a terrified 10-year-old Lan, Red Guards burst into the family home and arrested her grandfather. Days later, her father was arrested, accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Her mother, Wu Keliang, was branded a counter-revolutionary and forced to go with her daughter to a re-education camp for more than seven years, where Lan came of age as a high school student.
In recounting her family history, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country.
In telling her and her family's story, she serves up an intimate account of the history of contemporary China.
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- De: Thad Carhart
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Paris neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartier's oddest hangout.
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Beautiful and Technically Perfect
- De GE Guest en 05-14-23
De: Thad Carhart
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Speak, Okinawa
- A Memoir
- De: Elizabeth Miki Brina
- Narrado por: Sachi Lovatt
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on US-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers.
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Excellent!!
- De noriko s. cuaron en 03-03-21
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Maybe Esther
- A Family Story
- De: Katja Petrowskaja
- Narrado por: Emma Gregory
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman's family across 20th-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors.
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Journey to Understand the Past
- De Debbie en 08-05-23
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Mott Street
- A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
- De: Ava Chin
- Narrado por: Ava Chin
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all.
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Captivating, fascinating and important read!
- De E. en 11-18-23
De: Ava Chin
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A House Built by Slaves
- African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
- De: Jonathan W. White
- Narrado por: Jesse Lipscombe
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, this book illuminates why Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln began inviting African Americans of every background into his home, from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
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impeccably researched
- De Laileanah en 04-23-24
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Catullus' Bedspread
- The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
- De: Daisy Dunn
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome.
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Wonderful exciting historical
- De Architecto en 03-19-23
De: Daisy Dunn
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
- Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
- De: Thad Carhart
- Narrado por: Dan Cashman
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Paris neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartier's oddest hangout.
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Beautiful and Technically Perfect
- De GE Guest en 05-14-23
De: Thad Carhart
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Speak, Okinawa
- A Memoir
- De: Elizabeth Miki Brina
- Narrado por: Sachi Lovatt
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on US-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their only daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood and adolescence. Yet even though she felt almost no connection to her mother's distant home, she also felt out of place among her peers.
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Excellent!!
- De noriko s. cuaron en 03-03-21
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Maybe Esther
- A Family Story
- De: Katja Petrowskaja
- Narrado por: Emma Gregory
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman's family across 20th-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors.
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Journey to Understand the Past
- De Debbie en 08-05-23
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Geisha, a Life
- De: Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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In Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki tells her story, from her warm early childhood, to her intense yet privileged upbringing in the Iwasaki okiya (household), to her years as a renowned geisha, and finally, to her decision at the age of 29 to retire and marry, a move that would mirror the demise of geisha culture. Mineko brings to life the beauty and wonder of Gion Kobu, a place that "existed in a world apart, a special realm whose mission and identity depended on preserving the time-honored traditions of the past."
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Good Bio but Memoirs is much more entertaining…
- De Seirene en 07-06-21
De: Mineko Iwasaki, y otros
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Glorious Beef
- The LaFrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry
- De: Pat LaFrieda, Cecilia Molinari
- Narrado por: Brian Hutchison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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It all began when Pat LaFrieda’s great-grandfather Anthony LaFrieda decided to pack up and move his family from Italy to New York in search of a better life, setting up the family’s first retail butcher shop in 1922 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Almost 100 years later, Pat LaFrieda, a fourth-generation butcher and third-generation meat purveyor, is at the helm of a family-run business that has been providing meat to customers for decades.
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Very interesting!
- De J Flannery en 08-30-22
De: Pat LaFrieda, y otros
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Denali
- A Man, A Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime
- De: Ben Moon
- Narrado por: Ben Moon
- Duración: 7 h y 7 m
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When Ben Moon moved from the Midwest to Oregon, he hadn’t planned on getting a dog. But when he first met the soulful gaze of a rescue pup in a shelter, Ben instantly felt a connection, and his friendship with Denali was born. The two of them set out on the road together, on an adventure that would take them across the American west and through some of the best years of their lives. But when Ben was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at age 29, he faced a difficult battle with the disease, and Denali never once left his side until they were back out surfing and climbing crags.
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Definitely added to my list of favorites!
- De elissa en 01-30-20
De: Ben Moon
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Poor Folk
- De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C. J. Hogarth - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble, Julie Teal
- Duración: 5 h y 52 m
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Upon its first publication in 1846, "Poor Folk" was an immediate critical triumph. Composed entirely of an exchange of letters between a middle-aged copy clerk and a young seamstress who live on opposite sides of a Petersburg tenement courtyard, the novel explores the emotional and psychological effects of a threatening urban environment on the psyches of poor people struggling to survive.
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it was kind of depressing yet oddly relatable.
- De Eli en 08-07-24
De: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, y otros
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Alfred Hitchcock
- A Brief Life
- De: Peter Ackroyd
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become one of the most respected film directors of the 20th century?
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Excellent intro to a great film director's legacy
- De An Alexandria music lover en 11-13-16
De: Peter Ackroyd
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Short Life in a Strange World
- Birth to Death in 42 Panels
- De: Toby Ferris
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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In 2012, facing the death of his father and impending fatherhood, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down and look at - in situ - every painting still in existence by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the most influential and important artist of Northern Renaissance painting. The result of that pursuit is a remarkable journey through major European cities and across continents. As Ferris takes a keen analytical eye to the paintings, each piece brings new revelations about Bruegel’s art, and gives way to meditations on mortality, fatherhood, and life.
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The Sakura Obsession
- The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms
- De: Naoko Abe
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer, Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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Collingwood Ingram - known as “Cherry” for his defining passion - was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country’s distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties. On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity.
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AWESOME 👌
- De DM2010 en 12-01-21
De: Naoko Abe
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My Mother's War
- The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Member Survived Three Concentration Camps
- De: Eva Taylor
- Narrado por: Nancy Peterson
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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After her mother’s death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her time as a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Holland. Using the letters, she reconstructed her mother's experience in the underground resistance movement and then as a prisoner in the Amersfoort, Ravensbruck and Mauthausen concentration camps.
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Ok
- De Marinenavymom en 05-26-22
De: Eva Taylor
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In Pursuit of Disobedient Women
- A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away
- De: Dionne Searcey
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper’s West Africa bureau chief, an amazing but daunting opportunity to cover a swath of territory encompassing two dozen countries and 500 million people. Landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, she quickly found their lives turned upside-down as they struggled to figure out their place.
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A journalist's memoir
- De still reading en 07-26-20
De: Dionne Searcey
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More Than a Hobby
- How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore
- De: David Green, Dean Merrill
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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The retail industry has undergone enormous changes during the last thirty years. But there is one retailer that not only has remained consistent in the fluctuating—even tenuous—market, but also has grown in the process. More Than a Hobby takes you inside the story of David Green, the man who built the phenomenal success of Hobby Lobby. Green went beyond surviving in a competitive retail market to thriving, ultimately expanding his $600 start-up company into a $1.3 billion per-year enterprise.
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Eternal goodness
- De Amazon Customer en 01-08-24
De: David Green, y otros
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Woodrow on the Bench
- Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog
- De: Jenna Blum
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
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Since she adopted him as a puppy 15 years earlier, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many as “the George Clooney of dogs” for his good looks and charm, Woodrow and his “Mommoo” are fixtures in their Boston neighborhood. But Woodrow is aging. As he begins to fail, the true nature of his extraordinary relationship with Jenna is revealed. Jenna may be the dog parent, but it is Woodrow, with his amazing personality and trusting nature, who has much to teach her.
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Grief and Loss
- De D. J. McKenna en 07-07-22
De: Jenna Blum
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April 1945
- The Hinge of History
- De: Craig Shirley
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 17 h y 5 m
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Acclaimed historian and New York Times best-selling author Craig Shirley delivers a compelling account of 1945, particularly the watershed events in the month of April, that details how America emerged from World War II as a leading superpower.
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Amazing.
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-22
De: Craig Shirley
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- Mei Karras
- 02-17-20
An Incredible Saga of Yan’s Family
The House of Yan” is an excellent book that illuminates the history of modern China through one family’s three-generation saga.
As Ms. Yan’s contemporary fellow with a similar family background, her book not only evoked a chain of recollections of my own family’s tribulations, but also stirred up a host of painful memories that have been deeply buried within me for decades.
I applaud Ms. Yan for her courage and determination in facing the ghost of one of China’s darkest histories in recent past. The unimaginable horror and suffering her family experienced during the ten-year Cultural Revolution was shared by hundreds of thousands of Chinese families. This painful, tragic tribulation of our common past should never be forgotten. It should be told and retold to younger generations so they can appreciate more of today’s peace and prosperity and to ensure history will never repeat itself.
Unfortunately, in today’s China, it is still taboo to tell stories of the Cultural Revolution. It is still a forbidden topic to be written into school textbooks. It is still a past that everyone knows but no one speaks of and is mentioned nowhere. This is a “no-effort effort” as if time could make the past disappear and erase the un-erasable dark stain on our nation’s history.
There are a number of moments in the book that were especially poignant for me. One is about Yan’s eldest cousin 大胖子, who’s story reflects the fanatical, crazy passion of the youth in that particular time. The Red Guards turned their fervid devotion to the great helmsman Mao, into a total annihilation and destruction of all human ties, traditions, virtues and establishments. “革命无罪, 造反有理。Revolution is innocent, rebellion is justified.” In the end, many of these young Red Guards destroyed their own lives by destroying others.
My privileged childhood was abruptly taken away from me at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution when my father was named and criticized on the front page of state-run newspaper, People’s Daily. Overnight, my best childhood buddies stopped talking to me; the uncles and aunts who were usually super friendly to me in our government compound turned their backs to me like I was a virus carrier; but what hurt me more than anything else was the exclusion: I could not join the Red Guard, could not join others to go to Tiananmen Square to be reviewed by the great Leader Mao, could not participate in the revolution and could not demonstrate my loyalty to Mao. In that conformist time, being totally excluded from all revolutionary activities was a terrible curse to a young child, a scar of humiliation deeply stigmatized in my psyche. Reading Yan’s book made me wonder if maybe I should be thankful for being excluded from joining the Red Guard. Otherwise, like 大胖子, I may perhaps be tormented with guilt for the rest of my life if I acted in the fashion of that time by hurting innocent people.
Another point in the book that made me contemplate and seek answers was our parents’ unwavering faith to Mao and to the Communist Party. My parents, like Yan’s grandparents and parents, were revolutionary intellectuals, who were known to use their pen rather than gun to fight the Japanese and the KMT Nationalists. They devoted their entire lives to that which they believed would bring Chinese people a better life. They believed that socialism was the only way to save China. But again and again, their dreams were shattered by the constant ruthless class struggles, by Mao’s arbitrary hand that could turn the wind to storm and change sunshine to dark clouds. Yet, each time they seemed to be able to brush away their questions and doubts, each time they returned to their posts with the same passion, oblivious to their years-long suffering from solitary confinement. The ugliest and most diabolical thing of the revolutionary mass movement and class struggle was that it completely distorted human nature. It obliterated the human conscience and turned men to animals, yet, each time our parents seemed to be able to move beyond the hatred and revenge, and forgive those who betrayed their trust and friendships.
If not God (my parents are atheists), what made them so humane? So ready to forgive, so noble and so entirely intact as human beings despite the unspeakable inhumane misery they had endured? I spent long years searching for answers and seeking to understand, but I could not and still cannot find a satisfactory answer. I simply cannot comprehend the beliefs they held until the last minute of their lives. It seems to me like merely an illusion, an ideal that once seemed so lofty in their youth but has been repeatedly smashed by the merciless reality. But I suppose they had no choice. They couldn’t betray the course they had convicted for and devoted their lives to build. In another sense, a lot of their prime was wasted by class struggles. They had no time to feel regret and feel sorry for themselves. They had to make up for it by working extra hard. In the end, all they wanted was for their lifetime contributions to be worthy of their country and people. I truly admire them. To me, they are saints beyond any doubt.
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- David L. Jones
- 04-03-20
Exceptional job of tracing the experience of the Cultural Revolution.
One of my favorite books I’ve listen to on Audible. The story was so well told with a true expression of her feelings as a result of the events in her life during the Cultural Revolution. Never was there any political agenda, only the story as it unfolded from her perspective.
Lan is 2 years younger than my wife who grew up in Shanghai. As the oldest child in the family, she was sent to the countryside for 7 years where she nearly died. My father-in-law, who passed away 10 years ago today, was also a victim of the Red Guard, although never imprisoned he did loose his management job. Yet, he and she remain positive about communism and even Mao. It’s a phenomenon to me, but I better understand it after reading Yan’s book.
The narrator was exceptional. Probably the best I’ve ever listened to on Audible. She had me in tears at the end of the book.
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