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Jamie Ford
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New York Times best-seller.
“An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.” (Lisa See)
In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s - Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept.
Now, 40 years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.
Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet:
“A tender and satisfying novel set in a time and a place lost forever, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet gives us a glimpse of the damage that is caused by war - not the sweeping damage of the battlefield but the cold, cruel damage to the hearts and humanity of individual people. This is a beautifully written book that will make you think. And, more important, it will make you feel.” (Garth Stein, best-selling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain)
“Mesmerizing and evocative, a tale of conflicted loyalties and timeless devotion.” (Sara Gruen, best-selling author of Water for Elephants)
“A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet.... The period detail [is] so revealing and so well rendered.” (The Seattle Times)
“A poignant story that transports the reader back in time...a satisfying and heart-wrenching tale.” (Deseret Morning News)
“A lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable.... Ford does wonderful work in re-creating prewar Seattle.” (The Oregonian)
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- De Sarah Linfoot en 04-25-23
De: Jamie Ford
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Snow Falling on Cedars
- De: David Guterson
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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As a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder on an island in Puget Sound, snow blankets the countryside. The whiteness covers the courthouse, but it cannot conceal the memories at work inside: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, an unrequited love, and the ghosts of racism that still haunt the islanders. First novels rarely attract as much attention as Snow Falling on Cedars. Remaining on best seller lists for months, it has cast a spell on listeners across the country.
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Beautiful!!!
- De Patricia en 01-12-18
De: David Guterson
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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real life
- De Richard M. en 10-05-22
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The Language of Flowers
- A Novel
- De: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- Narrado por: Tara Sands
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A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it's been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude.
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You don't need a green thumb to enjoy this one
- De Diana - Audible en 04-16-12
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The Last Year of the War
- De: Susan Meissner
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 16 h y 37 m
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Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa 14-year-old in 1943 - aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal US resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including her own identity. The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue, a Japanese-American teen from Los Angeles.
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Historical Fiction at its Best!
- De KAT M K en 04-06-19
De: Susan Meissner
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- A Novel
- De: Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Duerden, Rosalyn Landor, y otros
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January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb.... As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends - and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is.
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MUCH better than I ever expected! Give it a try!
- De Kent en 10-19-09
De: Mary Ann Shaffer, y otros
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Sarah's Key
- A Novel
- De: Tatiana de Rosnay
- Narrado por: Polly Stone
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel' d'Hiv's 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past.
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Important subject and plot, pedestrian execution
- De Benson en 04-15-10
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The Light Between Oceans
- A Novel
- De: M. L. Stedman
- Narrado por: Noah Taylor
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In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
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Wonderful story.....terrible narrator.
- De Sandra en 08-14-12
De: M. L. Stedman
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- De: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
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In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of an impoverished Pakistani village, Mortenson promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of our time: Greg Mortenson's one-man mission to counteract extremism by building schools, especially for girls, throughout the breeding ground of the Taliban.
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A Fraud
- De Sara en 02-23-16
De: Greg Mortenson, y otros
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The Art of Hearing Heartbeats
- A Novel
- De: Jan-Philipp Sendker
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.
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Basic Story Interesting, But...
- De Monica en 06-04-13
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Last Bus to Wisdom
- A Novel
- De: Ivan Doig
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an 11-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
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Such a lovely final book.
- De B.J. en 02-26-16
De: Ivan Doig
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The Rent Collector
- De: Camron Wright
- Narrado por: Diane Dabczynski
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Mean Chey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money - a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past.
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Good story but has some issues
- De BR en 02-23-16
De: Camron Wright
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News of the World
- A Novel
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own.
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News of the World
- De R. Storey en 09-07-20
De: Paulette Jiles
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The Kitchen House
- A Novel
- De: Kathleen Grissom
- Narrado por: Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family. In time Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart.
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Captivating read!
- De Gottalookgoodwhenyouwkout en 10-18-17
De: Kathleen Grissom
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- A Novel
- De: Lisa See
- Narrado por: Janet Song
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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Lily is haunted by memories of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower and asks the gods for forgiveness.
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Loved it!
- De Pat en 10-03-05
De: Lisa See
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Oona Out of Order
- A Novel
- De: Margarita Montimore
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn 19, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens 32 years in the future in her 51-year-old body.
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Awful
- De M. Esposito en 03-02-20
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- C.
- 07-16-11
Captivating, Beautiful, Poignant
Wonderfully written by Jamie Ford and perfectly narrated by Feodor Chin, this was one of the best listens I've ever experienced. Mr. Chen's voice kept me interested and his voices were perfect. While the book's main characters were personally affected by the shameful and cruel treatment of the American Japanese during the World War II years, the book did not come across as accusatory, but more of a factual telling of how things were during those times.
There was a permanent "Relocation Center" near my home town and even though many young men from our area fought in WWII, the American Japanese earned the respect of the native residents for their quiet dignity as they endured their confinement. This book helped me to see things more clearly through the eyes of the American Japanese people.
I definitely recommend this book and will listen to it again.
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- CJF
- 03-11-09
Sweet and Bitter
Enjoyed listening to the story. Not quite as good as Snow Falling on Cedars, but still compelling.
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- S. Thurman
- 07-05-11
well written
And well read. It is a safe book to play with children in the car if you are prepared to answer questions about the Japanese internment camps. But perhaps the earlier children learn that the playground is not always safe, the better. It is disheartening to hear how quickly friend can turn to foe, but this is history... and one more lesson in the classroom of life.
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- Judy
- 01-11-11
Young love during Japanese internment ow WWII
A young Chinese boy with a very strict Japanese-hating father is sent to a mostly white elementary school where he works in a cafeteria. There, he meets a young Japanese girl and they become very close. Then, their story is interrupted by the rounding up and moving of all Seattle's Japanese community to internment camps. The story moves between the 1940's and 1986. Excellent character development, great work at personalizing the Japanese internment era. The book also examines the father/son relationship, with both the Chinese boy's father and then with his own son. I really enjoyed this book and the narration added to the enjoyment.
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- Cindy
- 06-13-13
Best book I've listened to in a long time.
What did you love best about Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet?
I loved the story line. It was very interesting to read about the different cultures and what was happening during the war. I had no idea there were "concentration camps" in the US.
This was a beautiful book and worth every minute!!!
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- Rachel
- 05-17-13
First (audio)book to make me tear up
If you could sum up Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet in three words, what would they be?
Realistically touching book
Which scene was your favorite?
Without going into to much detail as to not ruin the story for new readers, I would have to say Henry's second non-sunday visit to Sheldon.
If you could take any character from Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet out to dinner, who would it be and why?
Mr. Okabe. While he has a rather small role in the story he is still a fascinating character that implores understanding and unrivaled moral fiber. Hands down he is who I'd want to talk to as his life and his perspective must be truly captivating. (if the author wrote a book about Mr. Okabe I would read it in a heartbeat)
Any additional comments?
This book is captivating and memorable. Your heart will stir for many different reasons and while a work of fiction, it touches on real events and very real emotions. Everything about this book is organic in the characters evolution. It provides critical thinking in regards to human emotion and that some actions are not always what they seem or done for malicious reasons. I loved this book and glad my book club picked it out.
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- Anna
- 06-10-19
Very well written book
Ths is an excellent book. Entertaining and educational. Very moving story. The narrator is one of the best I've heard. I highly recommend this book.
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- Lynn C.
- 01-24-19
Loved it! Just a wholesome, heartwarming story!
I had heard about this book when I visited Seattle a few years ago. Historical fiction is one of my favorite genres. I was especially interested because of my own mom being Japanese and growing up in the same period. Great thought provoking, heartfelt story!
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- BC from LB
- 11-12-19
Happy Ending to a Wartime story
This is a colorful journey of two young kids who fell in love and fell apart during and after WWII. The theme of music and a relationship with a black street musician hold this story together. Forty plus years and separate lives
bring them together again. Wonderful, poetic writing and great narration will keep you intrigued throughout the book. Barbara C
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- CCrow
- 05-30-18
Once in awhile a story catches your heart.
It’s rare that a book can make me shed tears. This is a well written story with excellent narration. One of the very best I’ve listened to in the last few years. You really need to listen to this one.
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