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'A powerful, elegant page-turner' J.M. Lee
After losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside to look after her elderly father. There, the discovery of a chest of letters compels her to piece together the violent, vibrant story of his life.
More than just a portrait of one man, I Went to See My Father asks us to look at the ones we love, uncover the secrets they keep, and finally see who they really are.
Affectionate, epic, joyous and lasting, this is the perfect follow-up to beloved classic Please Look After Mother.
Translated by Anton Hur
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In 1937, the Shwartz family lived a calm life in their small village in Poland. Fifteen-year-old Rachel liked to sing and go out dancing at a local night club, while her older brother David was busy running a farm and raising a family with his wife Hinda. But all that changed when the war reached Butla. First, the Russians came and kicked them out of their house. Then, the Nazis came to cart them off. But the Shwartz family resisted. David decided that no matter what, his family would not be taken captive. Instead, he snuck his family out of their village and into Hungary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best!
- De Ian en 08-11-20
De: Aviva Gat
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 47
In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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The Latehomecomer
- A Hmong Family Memoir
- De: Kao Kalia Yang
- Narrado por: Kao Kalia Yang
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 284
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 248
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 245
In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States, all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Hmong history, lousy literature
- De Isadore Ducasse en 10-12-18
De: Kao Kalia Yang
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America Is in the Heart
- De: Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo - foreword, E. San Juan Jr. - introduction, y otros
- Narrado por: Ramon de Ocampo
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish-American War of the late 1890s.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Pointless, wandering narrative poorly performed
- De B. Bartok en 08-15-20
De: Carlos Bulosan, y otros
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
- De: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- Narrado por: Tovah Ott
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and - most importantly - how they find their way back to each other. In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta - her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts - but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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African narrators for African novels!
- De Lynn en 04-24-21
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What Storm, What Thunder
- De: Myriam J.A. Chancy
- Narrado por: Ella Turenne
- Duración: 11 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
The Earth had buckled, and, in that movement, all that was not in its place fell upon the Earth’s children, upon the blameless as well as the guilty, without discrimination. At the end of a long sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- De AuthorAnnaBella en 03-15-22
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My Family's Survival
- The True Story of How the Shwartz Family Escaped the Nazis and Survived the Holocaust
- De: Aviva Gat
- Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu, Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
In 1937, the Shwartz family lived a calm life in their small village in Poland. Fifteen-year-old Rachel liked to sing and go out dancing at a local night club, while her older brother David was busy running a farm and raising a family with his wife Hinda. But all that changed when the war reached Butla. First, the Russians came and kicked them out of their house. Then, the Nazis came to cart them off. But the Shwartz family resisted. David decided that no matter what, his family would not be taken captive. Instead, he snuck his family out of their village and into Hungary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best!
- De Ian en 08-11-20
De: Aviva Gat
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Summer
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Juliette Burton
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 68
Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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terrific book, beautifully read.
- De Sasha en 02-07-21
De: Ali Smith
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and interesting story:-) Glad I read it.
- De Justin Hickman en 03-01-25
De: Ariel Sabar
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The Library of Legends
- A Novel
- De: Janie Chang
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 166
China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, 19-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee. Lian and a convoy of more than 100 students, faculty, and staff must walk 1,000 miles to the safety of China’s western provinces, a journey marred by hunger, cold, and the constant threat of aerial attack. And it is not just the student refugees who are at risk: Lian and her classmates have been entrusted with a priceless treasure, a 500-year-old collection of myths and folklore known as the Library of Legends.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful and Umique!
- De D. Fields en 02-18-22
De: Janie Chang
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- De: Juliet Grames
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
- Duración: 16 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 601
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 601
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
- De brenda en 01-15-20
De: Juliet Grames
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The Shadow Lines
- De: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrado por: Raj Varma
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows two families - one English, one Bengali - as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian-born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator Doesn't Know How to Pronounce
- De Amazon Customer en 08-27-11
De: Amitav Ghosh
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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Last Witnesses
- An Oral History of the Children of World War II
- De: Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
- Narrado por: Julia Emelin, Allen Lewis Rickman
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 90
Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, Last Witnesses is Alexievich’s collection of the memories of those who were children during World War II. They had sometimes been soldiers as well as witnesses, and their generation grew up with the trauma of the war deeply embedded - a trauma that would change the course of the Russian nation. Collectively, this symphony of children’s stories, filled with the everyday details of life in combat, reveals an altogether unprecedented view of the war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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And how many years to forget?
- De Darwin8u en 09-16-21
De: Svetlana Alexievich, y otros
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- De: Carolyn Forché
- Narrado por: Carolyn Forché
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 332
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 295
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 295
What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful story
- De Norhilda en 05-09-19
De: Carolyn Forché
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Under the Same Sky
- From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
- De: Joseph Kim, Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Raymond Lee
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 142
A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by activists and Christian missionaries, and success in the United States thanks to newfound faith and courage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tugs at the heart strings
- De R3v13w3r en 07-15-15
De: Joseph Kim, y otros
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My Friend Anne Frank
- The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds
- De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, Dina Kraft
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 109
In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the missing piece to Anne’s story and the complete picture of Hannah’s
- De Wilson en 07-13-23
De: Hannah Pick-Goslar, y otros
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Pearl in a Cage
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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Autumn
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Melody Grove
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 516
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 453
Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy, and the color hit of Pop Art, Autumn is a witty excavation of the present by the past. The novel is a stripped-branches take on popular culture and a meditation, in a world growing ever more bordered and exclusive, on what richness and worth are, what harvest means.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible use of language
- De Mary en 03-06-17
De: Ali Smith