The Book Censor's Library
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FINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024
A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.
The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish-allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture.
Reckoning with the global threat to free speech and the bleak future it all but guarantees, Bothayna Al-Essa marries the steely dystopia of Orwell's 1984 with the madcap absurdity of Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The Book Censor's Library is a warning call and a love letter to stories and the delicious act of losing oneself in them.
©2023 Bothayna Al-Essa; translation copyright 2024 by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain (P)2024 TantorLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. When they marry, Jane believes she has found everything she was looking for, including—a few years later—all the attendant joys and labors of motherhood. But it’s not long until Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego; in short, she becomes a wife.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- De Heather Demeter en 08-05-24
De: Sarah Manguso
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The History of Sound
- Stories
- De: Ben Shattuck
- Narrado por: Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, Paul Mescal, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 94
In twelve luminous stories set across three centuries, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection, each story has a companion story, which contains a revelation about the previous, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed, history is refracted, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gorgeous written connected stories
- De Briana R. en 07-22-24
De: Ben Shattuck
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The Garden
- De: Nick Newman
- Narrado por: Nicolette McKenzie
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Susan L. Houser en 03-28-25
De: Nick Newman
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- De: Junot Diaz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis, Staci Snell
- Duración: 16 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,921
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,289
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,306
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wondrous Book!!!
- De Robert en 06-22-12
De: Junot Diaz
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Headshot
- A Novel
- De: Rita Bullwinkel
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 69
An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Narrator
- De love it en 08-09-24
De: Rita Bullwinkel
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Victorian Psycho
- De: Virginia Feito
- Narrado por: Anna Burnett
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 324
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 318
Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.
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3 out of 5 stars
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meh
- De Pamela Y. S. en 02-13-25
De: Virginia Feito
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Martyr!
- A Novel
- De: Kaveh Akbar
- Narrado por: Arian Moayed
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,314
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,213
Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of the Persian Gulf in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best novels I have ever read/heard.
- De James en 04-06-24
De: Kaveh Akbar
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Rejection
- Fiction
- De: Tony Tulathimutte
- Narrado por: Micky Shiloah, Allyson Ryan, Quincy Surasmith, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 267
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 249
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Trigger warning for one chapter, otherwise really creative
- De Amazon Customer en 10-06-24
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Beautyland
- De: Marie-Helene Bertino
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 275
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on the oddities of earthlings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-24
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Playground
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 810
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 734
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 734
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a tremendous story
- De Deb Hatch en 11-08-24
De: Richard Powers
The ending!
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Thought-provoking and original
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