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Claire Rooney
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Paola Pomponi
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Imagine what it would be like sitting on a bench in a park, minding your own business when suddenly, you find J. S. Bach next to you.
This is a story about living, loving, dying, temporality, rationality, and emotionality. Bach wants to play rather than answer questions, but perhaps if we listen carefully to his music, we could get a sense of what the other dimension may be like.
A novel written during the long weeks of isolation in the winter of the second Covid lockdown, Bach’s music has been a faithful companion during Paola’s daily walks, coffee in hand, to an old rusty bench in a nearby park.
©2022 Paola Pomponi (P)2023 Paola PomponiLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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The Odd Woman and the City
- A Memoir
- De: Vivian Gornick
- Narrado por: Vivian Gornick
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yet another Gornick masterpiece
- De Lo en 01-14-23
De: Vivian Gornick
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Siddhartha
- De: Hermann Hesse
- Narrado por: Harish Bhimani
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, takes place in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC). Siddhartha and his companion Govinda set out in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha goes through a series of changes and realizations as he attempts to achieve this goal. Siddhartha joins the ascetics, visits Gotama, embraces his earthly desires, and finally communes with nature, all in an attempt to attain Nirvana.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sounds rushed
- De Viviane en 10-17-11
De: Hermann Hesse
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The Go-Between
- De: L. P. Hartley
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
During the long, hot summer of 1900, young Leo Colston is invited to stay for a month at a lordly, aristocratic manor in Norfolk. There he falls in love with his friend's older sister, who commissions him to ferry secret messages to the local farmer, her lover. His naiveté sustains their affair until ultimately leading to an event that will change their lives irrevocably.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great walk back in time.
- De Linda Ward en 01-19-17
De: L. P. Hartley
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The Sunday Philosophy Club
- An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 938
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 608
New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, winner of the first-ever Saga Award for Wit, has entertained millions with his beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mysteries. Now this phenomenally popular author introduces a fresh series, brimming with the charm and humor his stable of dedicated fans can't get enough of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Advice For Prospective Listeners
- De DCinMI en 02-18-13
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Past Imperfect
- De: Julian Fellowes
- Narrado por: Richard Morant
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,037
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,029
Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern--his fortune in excess of 500 million and who should inherit it on his death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read Snobs instead
- De cristina en 02-14-13
De: Julian Fellowes
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Conundrum
- De: Jan Morris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 78
This remarkable memoir is the classic account of the transgender journey. It is all the more extraordinary because it is the life story of a figure who, it seemed, seamlessly and publicly charted a course through the English establishment - James Morris, outstanding journalist, historian and travel writer, famed for a peerless writing style. But all the while he was concealing a very different inner world: from the age of four he felt that, despite his body, he was really a girl.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful memoir
- De Gabriel Smith en 07-25-22
De: Jan Morris
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Island
- De: Aldous Huxley
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,802
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,602
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,598
In his final novel - which he considered his most important - Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize all his values and - to his amazement - give him hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great narration for a great book.
- De AndrewL en 09-21-16
De: Aldous Huxley
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The Island
- De: Victoria Hislop
- Narrado por: Emma Powell
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding plans a trip to her mother's childhood home in Plaka, Greece hoping to unravel Sofia's hidden past. Given a letter to take to Sofia's old friend, Fotini, Alexis is promised that through Fotini, she will learn more. Arriving in Plaka, Alexis is astonished to see that it lies a stone's throw from the deserted island of Spinalonga—Greece's former leper colony. Fotini reveals the story that Sofia has buried all her life: the tale of her great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters, and a family rent by tragedy, war, and passion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent story!
- De Wendy en 06-28-23
De: Victoria Hislop
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A Closed Eye
- De: Anita Brookner
- Narrado por: Prunella Scales
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful Tessa can dispel. Freddie is far older than she is - a companion rather than a lover - and slightly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack. Yet all four are bound together: by their backgrounds, their children, by Harriet’s unspoken feelings for Jack and by the tragedy that lies in wait for all of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Late Great Ms. Brookner
- De David P en 05-15-16
De: Anita Brookner
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Stella's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 1
- De: Louise Allen
- Narrado por: Melanie Crawley
- Duración: 8 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 328
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 316
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 316
Named after the lager that christened her at birth, Stella's life is characterised instability and neglect. Her teenage mother abandons her in the first few weeks of her life, and left in the 'care' of her father, she ends up lying deserted in a house with no food, no water, no clothes and no warmth. She eventually lands in the care of foster carer Louise, who is determined to change her life for the better.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking and wonderful!
- De Deb S. en 10-28-24
De: Louise Allen
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The Museum of Innocence
- De: Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (translator)
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 246
Kemal, scion of one of the city's wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of another prominent family, when he encounters Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and a distant relation. Once the long-lost cousins violate the code of virginity, a rift begins to open between Kemal and the world of the Westernized Istanbul bourgeosie - a world, as he lovingly describes it, with opulent parties and clubs, society gossip, picnics, and mansions on the Bosphorus, infused with the melancholy of decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of the very best I've ever heard
- De Rebecca Lindroos en 03-06-10
De: Orhan Pamuk, y otros
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Death in Venice
- De: Thomas Mann
- Narrado por: Peter Batchelor
- Duración: 3 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 214
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
A stunningly beautiful youth and the city of Venice set the stage for Thomas Mann’s introspective examination of erotic love and philosophical wisdom.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A problem with the narration
- De Erez en 03-19-12
De: Thomas Mann
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Jacob T. Marley
- De: R. William Bennett
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 4 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,938
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 3,656
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,637
"Marley was dead to begin with...." These chillingly familiar words begin the classic Christmas tale of remorse and redemption in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Now R. William Bennett rewinds the story and focuses the spotlight on Scrooge’s miserly business partner, Jacob T. Marley, who was allowed to return as a ghost to warn Scrooge away from his ill-fated path. Why was Marley allowed to return? And why hadn’t he been given the same chance as Ebenezer Scrooge? Or had he?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Save My Five Stars for Books like This!
- De Gillian en 01-27-14
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Ordinary Light
- A Memoir
- De: Tracy K. Smith
- Narrado por: Tracy K. Smith
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 162
Tracy K. Smith has a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest in a family of five children raised with limitless affection and a firm belief in God by a stay-at-home mother and an engineer father. But after spending a summer in Alabama at her grandmother's home, she returns to California with a new sense of what it means for her to be Black: from her mother's memories of picking cotton as a girl in her father's field for pennies a bushel to her parents' involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply spoken - poetic
- De CarolynneRHarris en 04-27-15
De: Tracy K. Smith
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The Schooldays of Jesus
- De: J. M. Coetzee
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 31
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog, Bolivar, to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon, and he should be at school. And so, with the guidance of the three sisters who own the farm where Simon and Ines work, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.
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2 out of 5 stars
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SEXUAL PERVERSION PRESENTED AS BRILLIANT
- De Amazon Customer en 09-29-18
De: J. M. Coetzee