
The Inheritors
An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
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Eve Fairbanks
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Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
This “elegant” and “unfailingly empathetic” narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced.
Dipuo, who grew up in apartheid-era Johannesburg’s largest Black township, conceived her only daughter, Malaika, on the mine dump that separated the Black city from the white one. Christo, one of the last white men drafted to police that boundary, would come to realize—one night on the same mine dump—that everything he had been taught to believe was collapsing to make way for something unprecedented. For Malaika and her peers would be born to a historic destiny: to grow up and live in a Black-led society.
All three—Dipuo, Christo, Malaika—and so many other South Africans would make new lives while facing huge questions: How can we let go of our pasts? How can we, as individuals, pay historic debts? And what will people who care passionately about being good do when the meaning of right changes overnight?
The Inheritors tells a story about the unexpected fates that lie ahead for other countries now facing their own reckonings over history, race, and power. Written at the intersection of politics and psychology and told through an unorthodox blend of “richly drawn” lives and “incisive observations” (The New York Review of Books), acclaimed journalist Eve Fairbanks brings a coming world “vividly into focus” (The Washington Post). “Resonant with the current American situation,” The Inheritors “draws out tangled emotions with such skill and sensitivity” (The New York Times) to arrive at subtle truths and new revelations about our responsibilities to the past—and to the future.
©2022 Eve Fairbanks. All rights reserved. (P)2022 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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- Narrado por: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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This New York Times best-seller is the astonishing life story of award-winning humanitarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A deeply respected advocate for free speech and women's rights, Hirsi Ali also lives under armed protection because of her outspoken criticism of the Islamic faith in which she was raised.
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Tough, Candid Assessment
- De Paul Mullen en 02-18-08
De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Mighty Be Our Powers
- How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War; a Memoir
- De: Leymah Gbowee, Carol Mithers
- Narrado por: Kimberly Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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As a young woman growing up in Africa, 17-year-old Leymah Gbowee was crushed by a savage war when violence reached her native Monrovia, depriving her of the education she yearned for and claiming the lives of relatives and friends. As war continued to ravage Liberia, Gbowee’s bitterness turned to rage-fueled action as she realized that women bear the greatest burden in prolonged conflicts.
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Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and
- De Kathy en 10-07-11
De: Leymah Gbowee, y otros
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- De: Barack Obama
- Narrado por: Barack Obama
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a Black African father and a White American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a Black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family.
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Powerful
- De Gene R. en 10-26-21
De: Barack Obama
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The Song and the Silence
- A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
- De: Yvette Johnson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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"Have to keep that smile", said Booker Wright in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time Wright was a waiter in a Whites-only restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the civil rights movement. For he did the unthinkable: Before a national audience, he described what life was truly like for the Black people of Greenwood, Mississippi.
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Exceeded every expectation
- De ZeeJ84 en 05-23-21
De: Yvette Johnson
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Dreams in a Time of War
- A Childhood Memoir
- De: Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
- Narrado por: Hakeem Kae-Kazim
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Of Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, Ngugi wa Thiongo was born in 1938 in the backlands of his country (Kiambu district) to a father whose four wives bore him two dozen or so children. Ngugi was the fifth child of the third wife. His father was a peasant farmer forced to become a squatter after the British Imperial Act of 1915. Before going off to school, he had what was then considered a bizarre and inexplicable thirst for learning....
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An escape through education
- De Tango en 06-17-12
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Nothing to Envy
- Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Karen White
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years - a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung and the unchallenged rise to power of his son, Kim Jong-il, and the devastation of a far-ranging famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Taking us into a landscape never before seen, Demick brings to life what it means to be an average Korean citizen, living under the most repressive totalitarian regime today.
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The man who wants to be GOD
- De Gohar en 05-08-10
De: Barbara Demick
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Between Two Worlds
- Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
- De: Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Zainab Salbi was 11-years-old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move. As a palace insider, Zainab offers a singular glimpse of what it is like to come of age under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle". She watched as Saddam pitted friends, spouses, and even children against each other to compete for his approval.
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An excellent history lesson
- De Ella en 12-01-09
De: Zainab Salbi, y otros
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Notes on a Foreign Country
- An American Abroad in a Post-American World
- De: Suzy Hansen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul.
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A MUST-READ for all Truth-Seeking American wh
- De Parveen Mehdi-Newton en 12-08-17
De: Suzy Hansen
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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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Strength in What Remains
- A Journey of Remembrance and Forgetting
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him–a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
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My Favorite of Kidder's Books
- De Roy en 08-31-09
De: Tracy Kidder
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They Said They Wanted Revolution
- A Memoir of My Parents
- De: Neda Toloui-Semnani
- Narrado por: Neda Toloui-Semnani
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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In 1979, Neda Toloui-Semnani’s parents left the United States for Iran to join the revolution. But the promise of those early heady days in Tehran was warped by the rise of the Islamic Republic. With the new regime came international isolation, cultural devastation, and profound personal loss for Neda. Her father was arrested and her mother was forced to make a desperate escape, pregnant and with Neda in tow.
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I learned so much. Great pacing, felt like I time-traveled
- De Jess Fuchs en 02-07-22
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Fast Times in Palestine
- A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland
- De: Pamela J. Olson
- Narrado por: Julia Farhat
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Pamela Olson, a small town girl from eastern Oklahoma, had what she always wanted: a physics degree from Stanford University. But instead of feeling excited for what came next, she felt consumed by dread and confusion. This irresistible memoir chronicles her journey from aimless ex-bartender to Ramallah-based journalist and foreign press coordinator for a Palestinian presidential candidate.
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Palestine from the Inside—and Out
- De Susie en 11-04-13
De: Pamela J. Olson
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- De: Yeonmi Park
- Narrado por: Eji Kim
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto her own most painful and difficult memories. She tells with bravery and dignity for the first time the story of how she and her mother were betrayed and sold into sexual slavery in China and forced to suffer terrible psychological and physical hardship before they finally made their way to Seoul, South Korea - and to freedom.
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Wow. What a story!
- De Jfm en 02-01-16
De: Yeonmi Park
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Under Red Skies
- Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China
- De: Karoline Kan
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower.
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An intimate view of real life in China
- De Lonnie G. Hardy, Jr. en 08-15-19
De: Karoline Kan
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While the World Watched
- A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
- De: Carolyn Maull McKinstry
- Narrado por: Felicia Bullock
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan - planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history…and the turning point in a young girl's life.
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Look Back and Live With Greater Understanding
- De jerrie Will en 05-07-21
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- James A.
- 08-01-22
Pronunciation homework needed
The only part that detracted from the listening experience was the lack of homework in Afrikaans pronunciation, which had the unfortunate effect of dumping you out of the otherwise absorbing narrative.
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- Anna Martine
- 09-29-23
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Additionally, while I speak neither Afrikaans nor Xhosa, Zulu, or Ndebele — and therefor can’t speak to their pronunciations — it is incredibly refreshing to hear a Black voice flowing in and out of these languages without pause. Given that the author discusses at length the linguistic discrimination Black South Africans still confront, as well as the problematic ongoing privileging of Afrikaans, I really don’t see whatever Afrikaans mispronunciations the reviewers are criticizing as a major detractor from the narration.
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- Diane Miller
- 02-19-23
Much needed background after a trip to SA
I went on an 18 day tour of South Africa in the fall of 2022 and wasn’t prepared for what I encountered. I was visibly oppressed as a result of it and walking amongst the oppressed. After two weeks at home still shaken I purchased this book and began listening. It really helped me process what I saw and experienced and helped me understand the history of apartheid and that it will take generations to overcome its effects.
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- 12-02-22
Afrikaans words not pronounced legibly.
Atrocious pronouncing of Afrikaans words, it is not even half understandable. The book is written so that some Afrikaans words are important to the story and understanding of the narrative, but the way in which these words are pronounced detracts from the story, loses part of the story. I would rather buy the book and read it.
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