The Empire of the Senses
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Alexis Landau
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A sweeping, gorgeously written debut novel of duty to family and country, passion, and blood ties unraveling in the charged political climate of Berlin between the wars.
"Empire of the Senses is lush, smart, sexy, affecting, interesting, beautifully researched and well made. Spending time in the world of this novel is an absolute pleasure" (Aimee Bender).
Lev Perlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife, Josephine, and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, part one of the novel focuses on Lev's experiences on the Eastern Front - both in war and in love - which render his life at home a pale aftermath by comparison. Part two picks up in Berlin in 1927-1928: the Perlmutter children, now young adults, grapple with their own questions - Franz drawn into the brown shirt movement, struggling with his unexpressed homosexuality; Vicki seduced by jazz, bobbed hair, and falling in love with a young man who wants to take her to Palestine.
Unlike most historical novels of this kind, The Empire of the Senses is not about the Holocaust but rather about the brew that led to it and about why it was unimaginable to ordinary people like Lev and his wife. Plotted with meticulous precision and populated by characters who feel and dream to the fullest, it holds us rapt as the tides of cultural loss and ethnic hatred come to coexist with those of love, passion, and the power of the human spirit.
©2014 Alexis Landau (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Grand Central: Memories
- De ZacharyKindle Customer en 05-03-17
De: Melanie Benjamin, y otros
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A Golden Age
- A Novel
- De: Tahmima Anam
- Narrado por: Madhur Jaffrey
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming, her children are almost grown, and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air.
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5 out of 5 stars
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sad, poignant, thought-provoking, beautiful
- De Rio Delta Wild en 06-04-08
De: Tahmima Anam
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The Color of Light
- De: Helen Maryles Shankman
- Narrado por: Simon Slater, Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 23 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 161
At the American Academy of Classical Art, popular opinion has it that the school's handsome and mysterious founder, Raphael Sinclair, is a vampire. It is a rumor Rafe does nothing to dispel. Scholarship student Tessa Moss has long dreamed of the chance to study at Rafe's Academy. But she is floundering amidst the ups and downs of a relationship with egotistical art star Lucian Swain. Then, one of Tessa's sketches catches Rafe's attention: a drawing of a young woman in 1930s clothing who is covering the eyes of a child.
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2 out of 5 stars
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UGH... Will the Heroine Ever Grow Up?
- De Amazon Customer en 06-11-19
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Wild Lavender
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Kate Hood
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 332
Simone Fleurier is wrenched from her home on a Provencal lavender farm at the age of 14 after the accidental death of her father. Forced to become a maid at the boarding house of her Aunt Augustine in Marseilles, Simone's life is hard and impoverished. But one of her aunt's boarders, the beautiful Camille Casal, a star at the local music hall, gives Simone a dream: that one day she too will be a famous singer and dancer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Extrodinary Story
- De Wade en 08-16-08
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A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True
- De: Brigid Pasulka
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 698
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 603
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 593
The novel opens on the eve of World War II. In the mountain village of Half-Village, a young man nicknamed the Pigeon, under the approving eyes of the entire village, courts the beautiful Anielica Hetmanska. But the war's arrival wreaks havoc in all their lives and delays their marriage for six long years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Old & New Worlds Converge & Transcend Time
- De Sara en 11-22-16
De: Brigid Pasulka
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Jerusalem Maiden
- De: Talia Carner
- Narrado por: Lise Bruneau
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
In the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, a young Orthodox Jewish woman in the holy city of Jerusalem is expected to marry and produce many sons to help hasten the Messiah's arrival. While the feisty Esther Kaminsky understands her obligations, her artistic talent inspires her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, to dream of studying in Paris - and to believe that God has a special destiny for her. When tragedy strikes her family, Esther views it as a warning from an angry God....
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4 out of 5 stars
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No dreaming, No painting, No thinking . . .
- De Debbie en 04-18-15
De: Talia Carner
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The Dutch Wife
- De: Ellen Keith
- Narrado por: Abby Craden, Eric Martin, Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 143
Amsterdam, May 1943. As the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or - for a chance at survival - join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS Officer Karl Müller arrives at the camp hoping to meet his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, their lives change forever.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Holocaust Porn???
- De Peteylovesyou en 08-03-19
De: Ellen Keith
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Glorious
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Alfre Woodard
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 189
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden's rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gruesome violence
- De Marilyn en 11-22-11
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
- De: Leslye Walton
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 451
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 404
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 402
Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Haunting Fairytale
- De FanB14 en 07-24-15
De: Leslye Walton
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The Kite Runner
- De: Khaled Hosseini
- Narrado por: Khaled Hosseini
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,477
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,277
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,283
Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Worhty Read
- De P. C..S. en 08-17-03
De: Khaled Hosseini
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Freud's Mistress
- De: Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 68
In this sweeping tale of love, loyalty, and betrayal - between a husband and a wife, between sisters - fact and fiction seamlessly blend together, creating a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman and her struggle to reconcile her love for her sister with her obsessive desire for her sister's husband, the mythic father of psychoanalysis.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What a Super Ego
- De Mel en 07-12-13
De: Karen Mack, y otros
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The Disappearances
- De: Emily Bain Murphy
- Narrado por: Devon Sorvari
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 69
Aila Quinn's mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery. Vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila's reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother, Miles, are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town with mysteries of its own. In Sterling, the experiences that weave life together - scents of flowers and food, reflections from mirrors and lakes, even the ability to dream - vanish every seven years. No one knows what causes these Disappearances or what will slip away next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always
- De Lisa Gay en 09-09-17
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The Red Address Book
- De: Sofia Lundberg, Alice Menzies - translator
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 591
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 532
The global fiction sensation - published in 32 countries around the world: Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny - her American grandniece, and her only relative - give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. In writing down the stories of her colorful past - working as a maid in Sweden, modelling in Paris during the '30s, fleeing to Manhattan at the dawn of the Second World War - she may help Jenny, haunted by a difficult childhood, unlock the secrets of their family....
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2 out of 5 stars
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narrator was overwrought
- De Janet L. Hamilton en 02-22-19
De: Sofia Lundberg, y otros
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The Forgotten Room
- De: Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
- Narrado por: Morgan Hallett, Susan Bennett
- Duración: 13 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,991
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,984
It's 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?
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3 out of 5 stars
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The same story 3 times over...
- De Amazon Customer en 03-30-16
De: Karen White, y otros
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The Dressmaker's Dowry
- A Novel
- De: Meredith Jaeger
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell, Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
For listeners of Lucinda Riley, Sarah Jio, or Susan Meissner, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco's gritty streets in 1876 and the other a young woman in the present day who must delve into the secrets of her husband's wealthy family only to discover that she and the missing dressmaker might be connected in unexpected ways.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Even two good narrators can't redeem this
- De RueRue en 03-27-17
De: Meredith Jaeger
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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 18 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,979
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Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alternate title for "The House at Riverton"
- De Karen en 12-22-13
De: Kate Morton
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The Unseen
- A Novel
- De: Katherine Webb
- Narrado por: Clare Wille
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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A vicar with a passion for nature, the Reverend Albert Canning leads a happy existence with his naive wife, Hester, in their sleepy Berkshire village in the year 1911. But as the English summer dawns, the Cannings' lives are forever changed by two new arrivals: Cat, their new maid, a disaffected, free-spirited young woman sent down from London after entanglements with the law; and Robin Durrant, a leading expert in the occult, enticed by tales of elemental beings in the water meadows nearby.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Dana en 09-03-12
De: Katherine Webb