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A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
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Ha Jin
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting: a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai - also known as Li Po.
In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems - shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life - were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty, and his deep desire for a higher, more perfect world gave rise to his nickname, the Banished Immortal. Today, Bai's verses are still taught to China's schoolchildren and recited at parties and toasts; they remain an inextricable part of the Chinese language.
With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the great poet's life story. He follows Bai from his origins on the Western frontier to his ramblings travels as a young man, which were filled with filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets. Ha Jin also takes us through the poet's later years - in which he became swept up in a military rebellion that altered the course of China's history - and the mysterious circumstances of his death, which are surrounded by legend.
The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.
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“The Tang-dynasty poet Li Bai, one of the most revered figures in Chinese literature, was torn between his ambition to become a great statesman and his Daoist aspiration to live a hermetic life. In this biography, the novelist Ha Jin tells Li’s story with insight and empathy. Born in 701, the son of a merchant, Li spent his life travelling in search of patrons to sponsor his political career and divine beings to help him transcend earthly knowledge. Instead, he met laborers ferrying goods along steep trails, young women waiting years for their betrotheds to return from mercantile expeditions, heroic soldiers stationed in the far north and forgotten by the court. Capturing such intimate longing and pain in his poems secured for Li the immortality denied him by politics and religion.” (The New Yorker)
“Ha Jin’s masterful style and deep affection for his subject make the book a pleasure to read - especially for those unfamiliar with Li Bai or Chinese poetry in general... The Banished Immortal liberally quotes Bai’s work, sometimes reproducing complete poems in translation to show the depth of his imagery and style. A number of readers will pick up this book knowing its author but not Li Bai, and Ha Jin makes sure they see Bai’s prodigious talent. Newcomers will be swept up in Bai’s personal history while fans of his work will enjoy Ha Jin’s own take on the man and his influence.” (Shelf Awareness, starred review)
“In China Li Po remains the bard of the land, if not the world - a most recognizable global brand, second only, perhaps, to Confucius. As with any cultural icon, beneath the shining veneer must lie untold stories, apocryphal or otherwise. In The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po), the National Book Award-winning author Ha Jin has excavated historical records and examined existing biographies, both in Chinese and English, to produce a rich, moving and titillating account of the poet’s life.... The Banished Immortal is a deeply empathetic portrait of a literary genius whose vicissitudes in life - filled with ambitions, frailties, losses and pains - would pale a Shakespearean drama.... Today, when power-grabbing politicians look out for themselves rather than the public, as they did in Li Po’s time, poetry has a herculean cleaning job to do. By giving us this mesmerizing biography, Ha Jin, who began his writing career as a poet and whose lucid narrative always contains a touch of poetry, sounds a warning gong for our troubled age.” (Yunte Huang, The Wall Street Journal)
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De: Kim Man-jung, y otros
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A Woman in Arabia
- The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
- De: Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell - introduction, Georgina Howell - editor
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas, Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg. One of the great woman adventurers of the 20th century, she turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world and became the chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she dedicated her life to championing the Arab cause and was instrumental in drawing the borders that define today's Middle East.
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Raw historiography of a spectacular heroine
- De Josef en 01-07-16
De: Gertrude Bell, y otros
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Desert Queen
- The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
- De: Janet Wallach
- Narrado por: Jean Gilpin
- Duración: 20 h y 11 m
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Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not only produced several enormously popular books based on her experiences but became instrumental to the British foreign office. When World War I erupted, and the British needed the loyalty of the Arab leaders, it was Gertrude Bell's work and connections that helped provided the brain for T. E. Lawrence's military brawn.
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Great beginning, then gets boring
- De Msz en 03-31-16
De: Janet Wallach
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Daughters of the Sun
- Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
- De: Ira Mukhoty
- Narrado por: Shernaz Patel
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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In 1526, when the nomadic Timurid warrior-scholar Babur rode into Hindustan, his wives, sisters, daughters, aunts and distant female relatives travelled with him. These women would help establish a dynasty and empire that would rule India for the next 200 years and become a byword for opulence and grandeur. In Daughters of the Sun, we meet remarkable characters like Khanzada Begum who, at 65, rode on horseback through 750 kilometres of icy passes and unforgiving terrain to parley on behalf of her nephew, Humayun....
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Repetitive Content
- De Sharmistha en 07-18-22
De: Ira Mukhoty
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Marco Polo
- From Venice to Xanadu
- De: Laurence Bergreen
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 16 h y 29 m
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As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, comes the first fully authoritative biography of one of the most enchanting figures in world history.
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Educational and Entertaining but a bit repetitive
- De PETER en 01-02-13
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The Buried Book
- The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
- De: David Damrosch
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 7 h y 22 m
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One day in 1872, self-taught Assyriologist George Smith was sifting through a pile of clay tablets when he realized he was reading about "a flood, storm, a ship caught on a mountain, and a bird sent out in search of dry land". This is the riveting story of the discovery of the world's first literary epic, the "Epic of Gilgamesh".
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interesting- but not for everyone
- De J Michael en 07-16-08
De: David Damrosch
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Cleopatra
- A Life
- De: Stacy Schiff
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
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Approach this book with caution
- De GolfZilla en 12-02-10
De: Stacy Schiff
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Fryderyk Chopin
- A Life and Times
- De: Dr. Alan Walker
- Narrado por: Corrie James
- Duración: 23 h y 28 m
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Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English in more than a century. Walker's work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin.
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This book is a masterpiece
- De Carpe Diem en 02-09-19
De: Dr. Alan Walker
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Iberia
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 37 h y 41 m
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Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history.
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Michener's Masterpiece
- De ahusmc en 09-14-17
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Josephine
- De: Carolly Erickson
- Narrado por: S. Patricia Bailey
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
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Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age, an era of revolution and social upheaval, of the guillotine and of frenzied hedonism. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life in this memorable portrait, one that carries the reader from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.
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Engaging
- De DPM en 03-07-08
De: Carolly Erickson
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Louisa
- The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
- De: Louisa Thomas
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 15 h y 42 m
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Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age. And yet John Quincy fell in love with her almost despite himself. Their often tempestuous but deeply close marriage lasted half a century.
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Insightful
- De Jean en 05-18-16
De: Louisa Thomas
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Empress Dowager Cixi
- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
- De: Jung Chang
- Narrado por: Jolene Kim
- Duración: 16 h y 34 m
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At the age of 16, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China - behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.
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An insult to audiobooks. Get a print version.
- De Reademandweep en 02-23-15
De: Jung Chang
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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
- De: Anthony Everitt
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 14 h y 23 m
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Acclaimed British historian Anthony Everitt delivers a compelling account of the former orphan who became Roman emperor in A.D. 117 after the death of his guardian Trajan. Hadrian strengthened Rome by ending territorial expansion and fortifying existing borders. And - except for the uprising he triggered in Judea - his strength-based diplomacy brought peace to the realm after a century of warfare.
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A Biography "too tall for the height of the cella"
- De Darwin8u en 08-23-12
De: Anthony Everitt
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Melville in Love
- The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
- De: Michael Shelden
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book". Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
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intriguing
- De Jean en 06-18-16
De: Michael Shelden
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Hannibal and Me
- What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failure
- De: Andreas Kluth
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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The lives of Hannibal and his Roman enemies are the stuff of legend. But these classic stories contain truths with relevance today: The seeds of our successes lie in our failures, and within our successes are the kernels of our failure. Knowing how to recognize these paradoxes will help us to be more effective at work, at school, at home, and with others. A big new idea book that springs from ancient history, Hannibal and Me explores these exciting ideas by analyzing the experiences of Hannibal and others who made their mark on history.
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Wow
- De Berserk en 04-12-12
De: Andreas Kluth
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Ramses
- The Son Of Light
- De: Christian Jacq
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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An epic re-creation of the exhilarating and mysterious time when the Sun King ruled Egypt, Ramses, the Son of Light, has become the rage in France. With over two million copies sold, it is the greatest publishing phenomenon to hit the shelves there in 20 years. Rameses is only 14 when his father, the Pharaoh Seti, begins testing his true mettle. Being the younger of two sons, the proud Ramses has a problem with being relegated to second place.
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Teenager drama with little insight into Egyptian culture
- De Consuelo en 10-24-17
De: Christian Jacq
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Koh-i-Noor
- The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
- De: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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On 29 March 1849, the 10-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public ceremony, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company in a formal act of submission not only swathes of the richest land in India but also arguably the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Mountain of Light.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 07-08-17
De: Anita Anand, y otros
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A First-Rate Madness
- Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
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Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis.
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Fascinating reading
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Pure beauty
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Daemon Voices
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One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story - from his own books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and the Brothers Grimm, among others - and delves into the role of story in education, religion, and science. At once personal and wide-ranging, Daemon Voices is both a revelation of the writing mind and the methods of a great contemporary master and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself.
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When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, but financial debts and political intrigues prompted her to conspire with her treasonous husband against George Washington and the American Revolution. In spite of her commendable efforts to rehabilitate her husband’s name, Peggy Shippen continues to be remembered as a traitor bride.
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Not Your China Doll
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- De: Katie Gee Salisbury
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Before Constance Wu, Sandra Oh, Awkwafina, or Lucy Liu, there was Anna May Wong. In her time, she was a legendary beauty, witty conversationalist, and fashion icon. Plucked from her family’s laundry business in Los Angeles, Anna May Wong rose to stardom in Douglas Fairbanks’s blockbuster The Thief of Bagdad. Fans and the press clamored to see more of this unlikely actress, but when Hollywood repeatedly cast her in stereotypical roles, she headed abroad in protest. Not Your China Doll showcases the vibrant, radical life of a groundbreaking artist.
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Anna May deserves better than this
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Proust's Duchess
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- De: Caroline Weber
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Geneviève Halévy Bizet Straus; Laure de Sade, Comtesse de Adhéaume de Chevigné; and Élisabeth de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the Comtesse Greffulhe--these were the three superstars of fin-de-siècle Parisian high society who, as Caroline Weber says, "transformed themselves, and were transformed by those around them, into living legends: paragons of elegance, nobility, and style."
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Enthralling, entertaining and brilliant
- De Uli Baer en 01-14-19
De: Caroline Weber
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The Ascent of Humanity
- Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
- De: Charles Eisenstein
- Narrado por: Steve Wojtas
- Duración: 27 h y 26 m
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Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. He argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science, religion, money, technology, economics, medicine, and education as we know them. It has fired our near-pathological pursuit of technological Utopias even as we push ourselves and our planet to the brink of collapse.
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Interesting ideas but lots of negativity
- De Dan B en 05-22-23
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The Last Palace
- Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
- De: Norman Eisen
- Narrado por: Jeff Goldblum
- Duración: 15 h y 36 m
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When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s....
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Great book despite goldblum’s narration
- De Fernando Ferrante en 01-19-19
De: Norman Eisen
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The Rasputin File
- De: Edvard Radzinsky, Judson Rosengrant - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 22 h y 26 m
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For almost a century, historians could only speculate about the role Grigory Rasputin played in the downfall of tsarist Russia. But in 1995 a lost file from the state archives turned up, a file that contained the complete interrogations of Rasputin's inner circle. With this extensive and explicit amplification of the historical record, Edvard Radzinsky has written a definitive biography, reconstructing in full the fascinating life of an improbable holy man who changed the course of Russian history.
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Good old Radzinsky
- De Babs en 03-13-18
De: Edvard Radzinsky, y otros
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- Jan
- 08-21-22
Wonderful story!
The story is very well written and depicts the life of the great poet Li Bai in a very intimate manner while at the same time giving the listener a sense of a wider historical and cultural backdrop. Very inspiring and made even more interested in Chinese poetry and just poetry in general. Thank you for the great work!
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- Bruce R
- 06-28-23
Deep Dive Biography into Li Bai
Very well done. A biography of the life and times of Li Bai. With a cursory knowledge of Li Bai's poetry through translations into English, I had a romantic notion of this man. This biography gives an excellent account of the strenghts and weaknesses of the man. Also provides some insight into the Tang Dynasty which was also interesting. Recommended.
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- Peter W. Kalnin
- 09-09-24
Standard Biography
This is a standard biography of a great historical figure in Chinese literature.
David Shih's narration is spot on.
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- Carlos Martin
- 01-04-25
Great Biography!
A deep dive into the life of a great poet, with a detailed description of the historic events and culture surrounding him, which makes for a well rounded understanding of Li-Bai.
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- Joselo
- 02-09-19
Bold and unstoppable, like an overflowing river
The 8th Century poet Li Bai is regarded in China as one of the all-time greats. He is presented here as a force of nature, a charismatic, “free-spirited and unbound” Taoist, who was also an excellent calligrapher and swordsman. Tragically, he spent much of his life struggling to earn a position as an official in a government plagued by intrigue. He was spontaneous, impulsive, irreverent -- everything that was frowned upon in the rigid, bureaucratic structure of that milieu. A flawed hero, he would sometimes come across as arrogant and was often drunk. Yet, he was appreciated as a genius for the inventiveness, immediacy and passion of his poetry:
“Lotus flowers come out of limpid water, / Natural, without any decoration.”
“Bright moonlight comes in straightaway, not allowing the mind to guess.”
This biograhy feels elegant and light, and reads almost like a children’s tale. It would transport me to the Tang dynasty and provide me with a welcome retreat from all the noise of modern day life. Narrator David Shih’s voice is serene and has just the right touch of innocence. (I’m glad that he can speak Chinese. He pronounces proper nouns — such as names of people or places — neutrally, but he uses the tones when he reads certain phrases that refer to Chinese concepts.)
I’m grateful for this audiobook. I got it based on a short article about it in the New York Times and it turned out to be a great find.
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- CKC
- 02-15-19
Exquisite balance
A remarkable balance of history, information and storytelling. Enhanced greatly by the sensitive, intelligent narration. What a joy to listen to! Like a erudite fairy tale as another reviewer has written.
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- Jefferson
- 02-01-22
An Absorbing Biography of a Great Poet
I’ve loved Ezra Pound’s translation of “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” ever since first reading it in university, but I’d never known much more about the writer of the original poem than that his Japanese name was Rihaku, his American name Li Po, and his Chinese name Li Bai. So I eagerly listened to and learned a lot from Ha Jin’s The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (2019).
It is hard to overestimate the importance of Li Bai (701-762) to Chinese culture. Liquor shops, temples, and factories, Ha Jin tells us, bear his name, and his poems are regularly quoted in Chinese TV dramas, children learn them by heart in school, and they appear carved in stone at tourist sites. Ha Jin acknowldges the difficulty of writing a biography of the most famous poet in Chinese history: a dearth of primary records and sources and a wealth of legends. He identifies three Li Bais: the actual man (revealed by a few records), the self-created man (projected through his poems), and the legendary man (imagined in centuries of popular episodes). Most biographers have focused on the second Li Bai, the image he created, as scholars have searched his roughly one thousand surviving poems (less than a tenth of his prodigious output) looking for clues about his life and personality. Ha Jin does that as well, but also relies on comments by Li Bai’s friends and on his own interpretations. The result is a fascinating look at the life of the Tang Dynasty super poet, nicknamed the Banished Immortal because people thought he’d begun as a star in heaven but gotten exiled to our mundane earth for some transgression. The manner and exact date of Li Bai’s death remain mysteries. A popular legend has him drowning while drunkenly embracing the reflection of the moon in a lake. Ha Jin says that the likeliest possibility is that he died of an alcohol-related disease.
The first movement of Bai’s life ran from his youth to middle age as he tried and failed to get a government position while traveling and drinking and making friends and enemies and writing poems about his travels and many other topics. His original genius at poetry, healthy ego, and impatience with fools repeatedly sabotaged his chances to get an official’s career, although he did make many friends who admired his abilities and bold personality, poetry, and calligraphy.
His fame as an original and brilliant poet finally won him what he’d thought was his life dream: a position at court. But he immediately learned that the Tang court was a den of corruption, that he could only earn money by accepting bribes for favors and access, and that he was not there to advise the emperor but to play the celebrity poet in the Imperial Academy, a menagerie of idiosyncratic entertainers, quacks, and conmen (like a self-proclaimed 3000-year-old man). Quickly making enemies of his fellow Imperial Academicians (by mocking them in a poem) and then of a powerful eunuch in charge of multiple armies and Emperor Shuenshong’s favorite consort, Bai soon had to resign and distance himself from court.
Bai spent the next phase of his life studying to become a certified Taoist monk, partly to put himself beyond the reach of his court enemies. The grueling qualification-initiation ritual permanently ruined his health.
His last years were ignominious, as he joined the losing side in a civil war of succession, resulting in his being exiled and reviled as a traitor. He was pardoned, but his final summons to return to court came after he’d already died in obscurity hoping for such a summons.
Bai was complex: he wrote wanderlust poems at home and homesick poems away from home, loved his first and second wives and kids and wrote poems for and about them but left them for long periods, and wanted to transcend the world to a heavenly plane but wrote poems about worldly concerns and cares. The biography is not a hagiography, Ha Jin calling Bai foolish and self-deluded for joining a rebel prince’s cause against his wife’s good advice. The irony of Bai’s life is that he wanted wealth, fame, and power on the one hand and transcendence on the other, failing at both and drinking too much to soothe his disappointment.
As he recounts Bai’s life, Ha Jin relates many interesting Chinese culture points, like the (still current) belief of poets, painters, and calligraphers that the best way to free up the creative powers is to get tipsy. Also interesting was China’s long history and familiarity with classics and famous figures from every period of it, such that in the eighth century Bai and his contemporaries studied and learned poetry from centuries before. Still more. During the Tang Dynasty people thought you could dramatically extend your life span by taking Taoist immortality pills (full of mercury and other poisons), the government was constantly worrying about barbarians on the borders, you could only get into the government by passing a test that only elites could sit for or by getting a connection to recommend you, and commoners couldn’t get within 100 feet of officials’ carriages.
One of the most interesting discoveries (for me) in the book is the great amount of occasional verse Bai wrote for family, friends, or officials about greeting, parting, missing, traveling, drinking, eating, thanking, apologizing, loving, requesting, as well as poems inspired by current events (like a failed war or corrupt officials), sublime views (of mountains, rivers, towers, etc.), pitiable scenes (of hardworking laborers etc.), or homesickness. Poems in the voices of women (courtesans, dancers, wives) and of soldiers on the frontier. Poems apologizing to his wife for being a bad husband or rhapsodizing about how sublime he is (a roc flying to heaven or a dragon dragged down to earth). Poems as letters, diary entries, essays, political critiques, or self-explorations. Chinese poetry must be very flexible to contain such a stunningly wide scope in content, style, and mood.
Ha Jin quotes excerpts from many famous (to the Chinese) poems by Bai, like one about his friend Haoran departing after a fine visit:
My friend is sailing west away from Yellow Crane Tower.
Through the March blossoms he is going down to Yan Cho.
His sail casts a single shadow in the distance, then disappears.
Nothing but the Yangtze flowing on the edge of the sky.
The audiobook reader David Shih is fine.
Anyone interested in Chinese history or world art and literature should find much nourishment in this book.
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- Jaymin Kim
- 10-02-20
Okay research, good writing, bad performance
Ha Jin is not a specialist on the Tang dynasty by any means, so his research on the historical context is often patchy. The writing is pretty good though, and his passion for Li Bai and his poetry is evident throughout.
It's too bad that this book is narrated by someone who speaks little to no Chinese. His pronunciation of Chinese proper nouns is very inconsistent, and his performance is bland overall.
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- McKinley Fraser
- 04-17-23
For the deepest lover
This is not for a passer by. This is for some with deep interest in China, Daoism or history buff.
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- Gail N.
- 06-07-19
Very dry and pedantic
I was not transported back to medieval China the way I hoped to be. I usually love the narration of David Shih, but even his voice seemed flat and disengaged. The poetry also seemed a bit repetitive. Some of the poems are remarkable mainly because of the very human personality which emerges. But the prose did not carry this forward. I had to give it up mid-way because of lack of interest on my part.
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