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Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize.
A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal, are held up in brief fictions, burnished, made dazzling and unforgettable.
In 16 remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color - cunning, bold, and resolute - facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist, queer, religious, and immigrant stories with precision, drama, and compassion.
A Southern Living Magazine pick of most anticipated fall titles. A BookRiot pick of most anticipated fall indie titles. A Millions.com pick of anticipated titles for the second half of 2018. Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. A Literary Hub pick of ultimate fall books.
©2018 Chaya Bhuvaneswar (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover - but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Worth a Credit
- De Texastanya en 08-27-16
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In the Country
- Stories
- De: Mia Alvar
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Don Castro
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
These nine globe-trotting, unforgettable stories from Mia Alvar, a remarkable new literary talent, vividly give voice to the women and men of the Filipino diaspora. Here are exiles, emigrants, and wanderers uprooting their families from the Philippines to begin new lives in the Middle East, the United States, and elsewhere - and sometimes turning back again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My introduction to Filipino literature and culture
- De Amazon Customer en 03-28-16
De: Mia Alvar
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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
- A Memoir
- De: Nadja Spiegelman
- Narrado por: Nadja Spiegelman
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers - French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly - exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and "began to whisper to the adults around me in a language I did not understand", their relationship grew tense.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Aweful
- De Haley Abreu en 07-05-17
De: Nadja Spiegelman
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Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Edited by David Sedaris
- Narrado por: David Sedaris, Mary-Louise Parker, Cherry Jones
- Duración: 2 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 364
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 222
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules is a collection of short stories, some classic, others impending, selected and introduced by David Sedaris.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories but only 5 of 17 are included
- De Terri Kirk en 07-13-12
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Secret Daughter
- De: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 948
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 807
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 807
Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De Stephanie en 06-08-11
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Saints for All Occasions
- A Novel
- De: J. Courtney Sullivan
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 739
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 647
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 650
Nora and Theresa Flynn are 21 and 17 when they leave their small village in Ireland and journey to America. Nora is the responsible sister; she's shy and serious and engaged to a man she isn't sure that she loves. Theresa is gregarious; she is thrilled by their new life in Boston and besotted with the fashionable dresses and dance halls on Dudley Street. But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora is forced to come up with a plan - a decision with repercussions they are both far too young to understand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The narration ruined it
- De Janis Reynolds en 06-12-17
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The Story Hour
- De: Thrity Umrigar
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 788
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 708
An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi in her home office for free, quickly realizing that the despondent woman doesn't need a shrink; she needs a friend.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A stellar performance almost carried the book...
- De Daryl en 03-04-15
De: Thrity Umrigar
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When It Happens to You
- A Novel in Stories
- De: Molly Ringwald
- Narrado por: Molly Ringwald
- Duración: 6 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 125
When it happens to you, you will be surprised. That thing they say about how you knew all the time, but just weren't facing it? That might be the case, but nevertheless, there you will be. Molly Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion for human imperfection, Ringwald follows a Los Angeles family and their friends and neighbors while they negotiate the hazardous terrain of everyday life - revealing the deceptions, heartbreak, and vulnerability familiar to us all.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrated by Molly!
- De JillHen en 03-01-13
De: Molly Ringwald
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The Great Failure
- A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
- De: Natalie Goldberg
- Narrado por: Natalie Goldberg
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
"The Great Failure is a boundless embrace, leaving nothing out. I wanted to learn the truth, to become whole. If I could touch the dark nature in someone else, I could know it in myself." So begins Natalie Goldberg in this candid exploration of her life. Here, Goldberg makes sense of primary relationships between father and daughter, teacher and student, and exemplifies the accomplishment available when creating daily writing practices.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you have been let down by anyone. Listen
- De Mia en 04-19-18
De: Natalie Goldberg
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How to Be an American Housewife
- A Novel
- De: Margaret Dilloway
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington, Emily Durante
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 197
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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big disappointment
- De Kirsten en 04-12-12
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The Finishing School
- A Novel
- De: Joanna Goodman
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 184
One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamour, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain. Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a selfish streak and had earned as many enemies as allies in her tenure at the school.
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3 out of 5 stars
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this book was just ok
- De Josh Fields en 02-26-20
De: Joanna Goodman
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Bettyville
- De: George Hodgman
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 371
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 332
When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself - an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook - in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can't bring himself to force her from the home both treasure - the place where his father's voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict...
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1 out of 5 stars
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Title Should Be Georgeville-It's All About George
- De Sara en 10-08-15
De: George Hodgman
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Tiger, Tiger
- A Memoir
- De: Margaux Fragoso
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
One summer day, Margaux Fragoso meets Peter Curran at the neighborhood swimming pool, and they begin to play. She is seven; he is 51. When Peter invites her and her mother to his house, the little girl finds a child’s paradise of exotic pets and an elaborate backyard garden. Her mother, beset by mental illness and overwhelmed by caring for Margaux, is grateful for the attention Peter lavishes on her, and he creates an imaginative universe for her, much as Lewis Carroll did for his real-life Alice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a weirdly loving diatribe against pervs.
- De Dane Flakeman en 05-21-11
De: Margaux Fragoso
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Diamond Head
- A Novel
- De: Cecily Wong
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu, Samantha Chen, Angela Lin, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 113
Told through the eyes of the Leongs' secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice, and miraculous hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- De Gina en 09-06-15
De: Cecily Wong
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Native Country of the Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Cherríe Moraga
- Narrado por: Cherríe Moraga
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 53
Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherrie Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherrie and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own coming to consciousness alongside the heartbreaking story of her mother's decline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read for all chicanx
- De Rachel Barnett en 04-28-19
De: Cherríe Moraga
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Honor
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Mozhan Marno, Piter Marik
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 100
An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. Internationally best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complex but Compelling
- De Cariola en 04-14-13
De: Elif Shafak
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Carol Boyd
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 96
Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- De James A. Dittes en 08-13-16
De: Helen Oyeyemi