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Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda—the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window into an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.
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- A Memoir of Survival in Darfur
- De: Halima Bashir, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Halima Bashir was born into the Zaghawa tribe, whose customs have remained unchanged for centuries, in the remote western deserts of Sudan in the region of South Darfur. Halima's father named his daughter after the traditional medicine woman of the village, and she grew up in a happy and close-knit childhood environment. Her father became a wealthy man by his tribe's standards, so he could afford to send Halima to school and university. Halima went on to study medicine, and at 24 she returned to her tribe and began practicing as their first ever qualified doctor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A story that takes you there
- De Justicepirate en 05-22-17
De: Halima Bashir, y otros
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Stolen Girls
- Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story
- De: Wolfgang Bauer, Eric Frederick Trump - translator
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 5 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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One night in April 2014, members of the terrorist organization Boko Haram raided the small town of Chibok in northeast Nigeria and abducted 276 young girls from the local boarding school. The event caused massive, international outrage. Using the hashtag "Bring Back Our Girls", politicians, activists, and celebrities from all around the world - among them First Lady Michelle Obama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai - protested.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perspective changer
- De frostyski3 en 05-13-17
De: Wolfgang Bauer, y otros
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Across Many Mountains
- A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
- De: Yangzom Brauen
- Narrado por: Yangzom Brauen
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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A powerful, emotional memoir and an extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao’s Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent all around!
- De Lynn en 09-06-12
De: Yangzom Brauen
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The Wife's Tale
- A Personal History
- De: Aida Edemariam
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
In this indelible memoir of the life of her remarkable 95-year-old grandmother, Guardian journalist Aida Edemariam tells the story of modern Ethiopia - a nation that underwent a tumultuous transformation from feudalism to monarchy to Marxist revolution to democracy, over the course of one century. Filled with a vivid cast of characters - emperors and empresses, priests and scholars, monks and nuns, archbishops and slaves, Marxist revolutionaries and wartime double agents - The Wife's Tale introduces a woman both imperious and vulnerable.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Look At Ethiopia
- De Jean en 07-15-18
De: Aida Edemariam
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
- A Story of War and What Comes After
- De: Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 645
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Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries, searching for safety—perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator detracts from story
- De Laura en 01-16-19
De: Clemantine Wamariya, y otros
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They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky
- The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
- De: Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, Benjamin Ajak, y otros
- Narrado por: David Henry, David Zinn, Augustino Mayai, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 184
Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Important History
- De Planetary Defense Commander en 02-16-12
De: Benson Deng, y otros
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Bad Indians
- A Tribal Memoir
- De: Deborah A. Miranda
- Narrado por: Deborah Miranda
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 45
This beautiful and devastating book - part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir - should be required for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad recording
- De Aspyn Maes en 09-18-21
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 22 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,743
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,747
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular best seller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- De David en 12-15-12
De: Jung Chang
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Remember Us
- My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust
- De: Vic Shayne, Martin Small
- Narrado por: Peter Altschuler
- Duración: 10 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 369
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 335
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Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with twists and turns so unpredictable and surprising that they defy any attempt to find reason within them. Through the eyes of 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Martin Small, we learn that these priceless memories that are too painful to remember are also too painful to forget.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Tragic and Rich Life, With Lessons For All
- De still reading en 03-17-16
De: Vic Shayne, y otros
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Land of a Thousand Hills
- My Life in Rwanda
- De: Rosamond Halsey Carr, Ann Halsey Howard - contributor
- Narrado por: C. M. Hébert
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 201
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 185
When Rosamond Halsey Carr first arrived in Africa, she didn't realize that she would spend the rest of her life there. As a young fashion illustrator living in New York City in the 1940s, she seemed the least likely candidate for such a life of adventure. But marriage to a hunter-explorer took her to what was then the Belgian Congo, and divorce left her determined to stay on in neighboring Rwanda as the manager of a flower plantation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wow... just, wow... (not a good wow)
- De Jankow en 01-04-21
De: Rosamond Halsey Carr, y otros
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I Am a Bacha Posh
- My Life as a Woman Living as a Man in Afghanistan
- De: Ukmina Manoori, Stephanie Lebrun, Peter E. Chianchiano - translator
- Narrado por: Ariana Delawari
- Duración: 4 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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"You will be a son, my daughter." With these stunning words Ukmina learned that she was to spend her childhood as a boy. In Afghanistan there is a widespread practice of girls dressing as boys to play the role of a son. These children are called bacha posh: literally "girls dressed as boys." This practice offers families the freedom to allow their child to shop and work - and in some cases, it saves them from the disgrace of not having a male heir. But in adolescence, religion restores the natural law.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, awful pronunciation
- De Anonymous User en 04-19-21
De: Ukmina Manoori, y otros
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On Hitler's Mountain
- Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood
- De: Irmgard A. Hunt
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 54
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Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden - just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat - Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader. As she grew older, the harsh reality of war - and a few brave adults who opposed the Nazi regime - aroused in her skepticism of National Socialist ideology and the Nazi propaganda she was taught to believe in.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A rare and very much appreciated perspective.
- De tabounds en 12-28-17
De: Irmgard A. Hunt
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The Stories of Eva Luna
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Pena
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Immerse yourself in a world of love, vengeance, compassion, and irony with the evocative stories of Eva Luna. Author Isabel Allende introduced this well-loved character to audiences in her earlier novel, Eva Luna. Listen to Allende talk about the role of writing in her life in Giving Birth, Finding Form. This program also features Alice Walker and Jean Shinoda Bolen.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Better some Allende than no Allende
- De Perschon en 12-04-14
De: Isabel Allende
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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- De Roy en 08-31-09
De: Tracy Kidder
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- De: Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrado por: Stephen Park
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 251
Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and North Korea's other leaders have kept a tight grasp on their one-party state, quashing any nascent opposition movements and sending all suspected dissidents to its brutal concentration camps for "re-education". Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Riveting!!
- De Iread en 11-12-20
De: Chol-hwan Kang, y otros
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Slave
- De: Mende Nazar, Damien Lewis
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 157
Mende Nazer tells the story of her kidnap, at age 12, from an idyllic life with her family in a village in Sudan, and being sold into slavery. Trafficked to Europe and the London home of a diplomat, Nazer escaped - only to find she had to fight for asylum.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking dose of reality
- De Sarah en 09-02-09
De: Mende Nazar, y otros
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Led by Faith
- De: Immaculée Ilibagiza
- Narrado por: Immaculée Ilibagiza
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 168
For three months in the spring of 1994, the African nation of Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world has ever seen. Immaculée Ilibagiza, a young university student, miraculously survived the savage killing spree that left most of her family, friends, and a million of her fellow citizens dead. Immaculée's remarkable story of survival was documented in her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting perspective
- De RayChu en 03-13-13
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Cockroaches
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Alex W. Brede
- 12-07-24
Essential Rwandan Reading
Essential reading for apprehending the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsis, and the struggle for healing.
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