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Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a heartfelt mother-and-daughter memoir about three generations of women and their fight to leave Soviet Russia. A mother is a dissident, a refusenik, and a prisoner in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in the 1970s and '80s. Her daughter, eleven years old, is left without a family. A grandmother is in the USA, waiting for her daughter and granddaughter and not knowing if she'll ever see them again. "I am fine," the three of them write to each other in their letters.
How can you be "fine" when you have to fight to survive? When you must be silent? When the place that you love turns against you?
Told from the dual points of view, this memoir shows the reality of life in the Soviet Union, giving an insider's perspective on the roots of Putin's Russia. It is also a coming-of-age story, heartfelt and funny, a testament to the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters, and the healing power of art.
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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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Black Dog of Fate
- A Memoir
- De: Peter Balakian
- Narrado por: Peter Balakian
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 65
The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia. He was immersed in an all-American boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passion for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced: the Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Lm en 06-27-13
De: Peter Balakian
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Falconer
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 80
A convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man while inside a nightmarish prison. Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unsettling and beautiful
- De Darwin8u en 01-21-13
De: John Cheever
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The Cut Out Girl
- A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
- De: Bart van Es
- Narrado por: Bart van Es
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents. The girl had been raised by her foster family as one of their own, but then, well after the war, they were no longer in touch. What was the girl's side of the story, Bart wondered? What really happened during the war and after? So began an investigation that would consume Bart van Es's life and change it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a powerful & unique work on the Holocaust
- De D. Littman en 03-06-19
De: Bart van Es
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One True Thing
- De: Anna Quindlen
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 581
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 466
A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets that challenged everything Ellen believed about her family. Now, in jail, Ellen believes those secrets will tell her who had the courage to end her mother's suffering.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Quindlen's writing skills shine in One True Thing.
- De Bonny en 08-26-13
De: Anna Quindlen
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The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
- Growing up in Communist Russia
- De: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Anna Summers - translation, Anna Summers - introduction
- Narrado por: Kate Mulgrew
- Duración: 3 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 43
The prize-winning memoir of one of the world's great writers, about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel - the setting of the New York Times best-selling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Work - Terrible Reading
- De Amazon Customer en 11-18-19
De: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, y otros
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The Traitor
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 212
In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets - a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends. As a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. She willingly enters the White Rose's circle....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not all the Germans are guilty.
- De Judy Harley en 09-18-20
De: V.S. Alexander
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Street Without a Name
- Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
- De: Kapka Kassabova
- Narrado por: Emily Gray
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up under the drab, muddy, gray mantle of one of communism’s most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying to escape. What she found was a country languishing under the strain of transition. This two-part memoir of Kapka’s childhood and return explains life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Good start, but ended up not liking the author
- De Giselle en 11-02-21
De: Kapka Kassabova
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Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust
- De: Planaria Price, Helen Reichmann West
- Narrado por: Ilyana Kadushin
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Meet Barbara Reichmann, once known as Gucia Gomolinska: smart, determined, independent, and steadfast in the face of injustice. A Jew growing up in predominantly Catholic Poland during the 1920s and ’30s, Gucia studies hard, makes friends, falls in love, and dreams of a bright future. Her world is turned upside down when Nazis invade Poland and establish the first Jewish ghetto of World War II in her town of Piotrko´w Trybunalski.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Nordic Artisan en 07-09-18
De: Planaria Price, y otros
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Caramelo
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, family, history, and fantasy, Caramelo
- De Michele en 08-07-20
De: Sandra Cisneros
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Without a Map
- A Memoir
- De: Meredith Hall
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
Meredith Hall's moving but unsentimental memoir begins in 1965, when she becomes pregnant at sixteen. Shunned by her insular New Hampshire community, she is then kicked out of the house by her mother. Her father and stepmother reluctantly take her in, hiding her before they finally banish her altogether. After giving her baby up for adoption, Hall wanders recklessly through the Middle East, where she survives by selling her possessions and finally her blood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Average "16 and Pregnant"
- De Susie en 12-11-12
De: Meredith Hall
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Anne Frank Remembered
- De: Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 443
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 372
For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fast Reading Could-Not-Put-It-Down book
- De Starlet en 03-07-10
De: Miep Gies, y otros
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- De: Dina Nayeri
- Narrado por: Dina Nayeri
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- De PAH en 09-06-19
De: Dina Nayeri
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The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
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Something Fierce
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter
- De: Carmen Aguirre
- Narrado por: Carmen Aguirre
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Carmen Aguirre was six-year-old when she and her family fled to Canada following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. She was only eleven-years-old when her mother and stepfather joined the resistance movement and returned to South America, taking Carmen and her sister went with them. As their mother and stepfather set up a safe house for resistance members in La Paz, Bolivia, the girls' own double lives began. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of terror, paranoia and euphoria.
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4 out of 5 stars
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revolutionary read
- De David Brown en 04-05-18
De: Carmen Aguirre
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The German House
- De: Annette Hess
- Narrado por: Nina Franoszek
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’ international best seller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator - caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power - as she fights to expose the dark truths of her nation’s past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just ok
- De Jennifer en 12-16-19
De: Annette Hess
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Stasiland
- Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
- De: Anna Funder
- Narrado por: Denica Fairman
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
In Stasiland, Anna Funder tells extraordinary stories of ordinary people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship, and of those who worked for its vicious secret police, the Stasi. She meets Miriam, who as a 16-year-old was accused of trying to start World War III. She visits the regime’s cartographer, a man obsessed to this day with the Berlin Wall, then gets drunk with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the east, once declared by the authorities “no longer to exist.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Achievement
- De Sil A. en 08-11-21
De: Anna Funder