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David Tse
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Chan Koonchung
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Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less - except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn - not only about their leaders, but also about their own people - stuns them to the core. It is a message that will astound the world.
A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state, and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past to protect the future.
From the Hardcover edition.
©2011 Koonchung Chan (P)2011 Random House AudioLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The moral complexity of a comic book
- De Tot en 02-22-19
De: David Remnick
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The Future Is History
- How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- De: Masha Gessen
- Narrado por: Masha Gessen
- Duración: 16 h y 45 m
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Award-winning journalist Masha Gessen's understanding of the events and forces that have wracked Russia in recent times is unparalleled. In The Future Is History, Gessen follows the lives of four people born at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each of them came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children and grandchildren of the very architects of the new Russia, each with newfound aspirations of their own - as entrepreneurs, activists, thinkers, and writers, sexual and social beings.
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The author is an international treasure
- De ThreeGems en 10-16-17
De: Masha Gessen
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Things I've Been Silent About
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Naila Azad
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
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Family portrait in the frame of history
- De Galina COS en 07-02-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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The Invitation-Only Zone
- The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
- De: Robert S. Boynton
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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Throughout the late 1970s and early '80s, dozens of Japanese citizens were abducted from coastal Japanese towns by North Korean commandos. In what proved to be part of a global project, North Korea attempted to reeducate the abductees and train them to spy on the state's behalf. When the project faltered, the abductees were hidden in a series of guarded communities known as "Invitation-Only Zones" - the fiction being that these were exclusive enclaves, not prisons.
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Over enthusiastic reader!
- De AJW en 02-14-16
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People
- Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
- De: Michael Booth
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than 10 years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely audiobook, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another.
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Obsessed with bad politics
- De Erik en 09-07-20
De: Michael Booth
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Stalin's Daughter
- The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
- De: Rosemary Sullivan
- Narrado por: Karen Cass
- Duración: 19 h y 43 m
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The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators—her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy—the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father.
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Insightful and thoroughly researched
- De Jean en 06-16-15
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Prisoner
- My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
- De: Jason Rezaian
- Narrado por: Jason Rezaian
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held hostage in a high-security prison in Tehran for 18 months and whose release - which almost didn’t happen - became a part of the Iran nuclear deal.
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Should have been much better given subject matter
- De Sample Sloth en 04-17-19
De: Jason Rezaian
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Ask a North Korean
- Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
- De: Daniel Tudor, Andrei Lankov - foreword
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the "Hermit Kingdom." This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think.
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Brilliant Narration on the unknown perspective
- De New Jaa Yeong en 09-01-18
De: Daniel Tudor, y otros
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The Home That Was Our Country
- De: Alia Malek
- Narrado por: Alia Malek
- Duración: 12 h y 28 m
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parents' decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians—the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds—who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country
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Syria as never read before
- De rami hachwi en 09-17-18
De: Alia Malek
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Factory Girls
- From Village to City in a Changing China
- De: Leslie T. Chang
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our own country a century ago.
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Living in Shenzhen - and What A Disappointment
- De Abstraction en 03-01-10
De: Leslie T. Chang
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World’s End
- The Lanny Budd Novels, Book 1
- De: Upton Sinclair
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 26 h y 56 m
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Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.
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Very good
- De Lynda en 07-13-22
De: Upton Sinclair
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Rosewater - Previously Published as 'Then They Came For Me’
- De: Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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When Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's presidential election, he assured his pregnant fiancée, Paola, that he'd be back in just a few days, a week at most. Little did he know, as he kissed her good-bye, that he would spend the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knew only by his smell: Rosewater.
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Book that would've shined but for the narration
- De loix en 06-24-11
De: Maziar Bahari, y otros
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- 12-14-18
Brilliant Novel!!!
Chan Koonchung illuminates contemporary China by contrasting the profoundly idealists figures with the pragmatic aims of the Chinese state and communist party. As the author argues, this novel is not dystopian fiction, but it starkly reveal the dark political, social and economic realities of capitalism without the rule of law.
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- sjp86
- 02-15-18
Eye-opening
I really loved this book way more than I thought. The content is superb and the reading was exquisite.
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