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"If proofreaders were given their freedom and did not have their hands and feet tied by a mass of prohibitions more binding than the penal code, they would soon transform the face of the world, establish the kingdom of universal happiness, giving drink to the thirsty, food to the famished, peace to those who live in turmoil, joy to the sorrowful... for they would be able to do all these things simply by changing the words...." The power of the word is evident in Portuguese author José Saramago's novel, The History of the Siege of Lisbon. His protagonist, a proofreader named Raimundo Silva, adds a key word to a history of Portugal and thus rewrites not only the past, but also his own life.
Brilliantly translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero, The History of the Siege of Lisbon is a meditation on the differences between historiography, historical fiction, and "stories inserted into history". The novel is really two stories in one: the reimagined history of the 1147 siege of Lisbon that Raimundo feels compelled to write and the story of Raimundo's life, including his unexpected love affair with the editor, Maria Sara. In Saramago's masterful hands, the strands of this complex tale weave together to create a satisfying whole.
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Written in a style that is both precise and sumptuous, weirdly archaic and powerfully novel, Zama takes place in the last decade of the 18th century and describes the solitary, suspended existence of Don Diego de Zama, a highly placed servant of the Spanish crown who has been posted to Asunción, the capital of remote Paraguay. There, eaten up by pride, lust, petty grudges, and paranoid fantasies, he does as little as he possibly can while plotting his eventual transfer to Buenos Aires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lost Master Work of The New World
- De tomasito en 02-28-17
De: Antonio Di Benedetto, y otros
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The Betrothed
- De: Alessandro Manzoni
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 24 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 185
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
After the jealous tyrant Don Rodrigo foils their wedding, young Lombardian peasants Lucia and Lorenzo must separate and flee for their safety. Their difficult path to matrimony takes place against the turbulent backdrop of the Thirty Years War, where lawlessness and exploitation are at their height. Lucia takes refuge in a convent, where she is later abducted and taken on a nightmarish journey to a sinister castle, while Lorenzo goes to Milan, where he witnesses famine, riots, and plague - all evoked through meticulous description and with stunning immediacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic reading of a great work of literature
- De Pia Crosby en 03-25-19
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Blindness
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,639
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,172
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,175
A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surrealistic
- De Richard Pesavento en 10-04-08
De: José Saramago
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The Count of Monte Cristo
- De: Alexandre Dumas
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 52 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 19,607
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 17,924
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17,882
On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d'If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is the one to spend 50 hours listening to!
- De james en 03-05-13
De: Alexandre Dumas
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The Ruby in Her Navel
- De: Barry Unsworth
- Narrado por: Andrew Sachs
- Duración: 12 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Thurstan, a young Norman and would-be Knight at the Court of King Roger in Palermo, has been in love since boyhood with Lady Alicia, now returned a widow from the Holy Land. Thurstan soon finds himself caught in a tangle of plots.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Well-Earned Five Stars for this Gem
- De Ilana en 12-11-14
De: Barry Unsworth
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Thus Bad Begins
- A Novel
- De: Javier Marias, Margaret Jull Costa
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 16 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost, and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel now asks Juan to investigate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating plot, superb performance, psychological depth
- De Doctor George en 12-05-16
De: Javier Marias, y otros
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The Phoenix Guards
- De: Steven Brust
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 369
Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and “tolerably well-acquainted with its use.” Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement. But in a realm renowned for repartee and betrayals, where power is as mutable as magic, a young man like Khaavren, newly come from the countryside, had best be wary. His life depends on it. And so does the future of Draegara.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hands down my favorite audiobook now!
- De Thea & Eric en 08-06-12
De: Steven Brust
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The Castle
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 123
A land-surveyor, known only as K., arrives at a small village permanently covered in snow and dominated by a castle to which access seems permanently denied. K.'s attempts to discover why he has been called constantly run up against the peasant villagers, who are in thrall to the absurd bureaucracy that keeps the castle shut, and the rigid hierarchy of power among the self-serving bureaucrats themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A masculine and coquettish reading
- De Alan en 05-27-12
De: Franz Kafka
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The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
- De: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
- Narrado por: Edoardo Camponeschi
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date". And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic, and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hidden masterpiece
- De C. Park en 08-09-18
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Molloy
- De: Samuel Beckett
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett, Dermot Crowley
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 200
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 198
Written initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer, Moran.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nauseating, boring, hilarious, and magnificent
- De Gene en 02-21-05
De: Samuel Beckett
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Aleph
- De: Paulo Coelho
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 579
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 494
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 494
Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny. his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to begin again: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the landscapes around him. Setting off to Africa, and then to Europe and Asia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, he initiates a journey to revitalize his energy and passion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strangely compelling read
- De Kathy in CA en 11-22-11
De: Paulo Coelho
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
- De: Franz Kafka
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great assortment of stories
- De Himanshu Modi en 08-20-18
De: Franz Kafka
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The King's Shadow
- Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria
- De: Edmund Richardson
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
For centuries, the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a meeting point of East and West. Then it vanished. In 1833, it was discovered in Afghanistan by the unlikeliest person imaginable: Charles Masson, deserter, pilgrim, doctor, archaeologist, spy, one of the most respected scholars in Asia, and the greatest of nineteenth-century travelers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite! A Transporting Tale
- De Meg en 05-02-22
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A Christmas Journey
- De: Anne Perry
- Narrado por: Terrence Hardiman
- Duración: 3 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 936
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 856
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 850
It's Christmas and the well-born guests who have gathered at Applecross for a delicious weekend of relaxation are warmed by roaring fires, mistletoe, and gorgeously wrapped gifts. It's scarcely the setting for misfortune, and no one - not even that clever young aristocrat and budding sleuth Vespasia Cumming-Gould - anticipates the tragedy that is to darken this light-hearted holiday house party. But soon one young woman lies dead, a suicide, and Vespasia must uncover the heartbreaking truth behind the tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never tire of Anne Perry
- De Joan en 12-22-17
De: Anne Perry
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 14 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 127
Joan of Arc's life and her accomplishments, as seen through the eyes of her childhood friend, are described with irony and brilliant insight into human nature. This was Twain's last book and he considered it to be his best.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really excellent!
- De Susan en 11-12-16
De: Mark Twain
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The Kingdom
- De: Emmanuel Carrère, John Lambert - translator, Claire Bloom - director
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Gripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrère revisits the story of the early Church in his latest work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrère ferries listeners through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Gospel of Emmanuel
- De Mark en 12-31-17
De: Emmanuel Carrère, y otros
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A great novelist deserves a competent reader!
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 11-26-13
De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, y otros
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Blindness
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,639
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,172
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,175
A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surrealistic
- De Richard Pesavento en 10-04-08
De: José Saramago
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Death with Interruptions
- De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Paul Baymer
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 371
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home....
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's actually two books...
- De Rebecca Garrison en 11-29-18
De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, y otros
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Cain
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 291
In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Jobe's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Heck of Funny Book!!!!!
- De Melinda en 10-14-15
De: José Saramago
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All the Names
- De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 225
Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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effortless abstract conections
- De ron en 02-20-12
De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, y otros
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
- De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 198
A brilliant skeptic, Jose Saramago envisions the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion as things of this earth: A child crying, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. His idea of the Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, and, as only Saramago can, he imagines them with tinges of vision, dream, and omen.
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1 out of 5 stars
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blasphemous story
- De Teresa Rhoades en 04-23-17
De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, y otros
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 16 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
The year: 1936. Europe dances while an invidious dictator establishes himself in Portugal. The city: Lisbon-gray, colorless, chimerical. Ricardo Reis, a doctor and poet, has just come home after sixteen years in Brazil.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A great novelist deserves a competent reader!
- De Prof. Neil Larsen en 11-26-13
De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, y otros
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Blindness
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,639
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,172
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,175
A city is hit by a sudden and strange epidemic of "white blindness", which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there social conventions quickly crumble and the struggle for survival brings out the worst in people.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surrealistic
- De Richard Pesavento en 10-04-08
De: José Saramago
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Death with Interruptions
- De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Paul Baymer
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 421
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 371
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home....
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4 out of 5 stars
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It's actually two books...
- De Rebecca Garrison en 11-29-18
De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, y otros
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Cain
- De: José Saramago
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 335
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 291
In this, his last novel, Saramago daringly reimagines the characters and narratives of the Bible through the story of Cain. Condemned to wander forever after he kills Abel, he is whisked around in time and space. He experiences the almost-sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, the Tower of Babel, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Joshua at the battle of Jericho, Jobe's ordeal, and finally Noah's ark and the Flood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Heck of Funny Book!!!!!
- De Melinda en 10-14-15
De: José Saramago
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All the Names
- De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 225
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 225
Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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effortless abstract conections
- De ron en 02-20-12
De: Margaret Jull Costa - translator, y otros
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
- De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, José Saramago
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 13 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 198
A brilliant skeptic, Jose Saramago envisions the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion as things of this earth: A child crying, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. His idea of the Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, and, as only Saramago can, he imagines them with tinges of vision, dream, and omen.
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1 out of 5 stars
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blasphemous story
- De Teresa Rhoades en 04-23-17
De: Giovanni Pontiero - translator, y otros
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- TiffanyD
- 08-06-18
Not for those who love a plot-driven novel
I want to love Saramago as much as I love Portugal. But his novels are so thin on plot that I struggle. This is my second attempt (Balthazar and Blimunda was my first) and I just can't do it. The rambling, the lack of chapters, the run-on sentences...I know this is about me and my preferences, but there you have it. If you love a novel with plot, consider finding a different Nobel Prize winner or a different Portuguese author.
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