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At the start of the 20th century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste....
Stasia learns it from her Georgian father and takes it north, following her new husband, Simon, to his posting at the center of the Russian Revolution in St. Petersburg. Stasia’s is only the first in a symphony of grand but all too often doomed romances that swirl from sweet to sour in this epic tale of the red century.
Tumbling down the years, and across vast expanses of longing and loss, generation after generation of this compelling family hears echoes and sees reflections. A ballet dancer never makes it to Paris and a singer pines for Vienna. Great characters and greater relationships come and go and come again; the world shakes, and shakes some more, and the listener rejoices to have found at last one of those glorious old books in which you can live and learn, be lost and found, and make indelible new friends.
©2019 Nino Haratischvili (P)2021 Dreamscape Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Based on Cartarescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art.
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Our Universal Phantasmagoria
- De Isaac Linder en 03-11-24
De: Mircea Cărtărescu, y otros
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The Island of Missing Trees
- A Novel
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Daphne Kouma, Amira Ghazalla
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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Historia
Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish.
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WOW! What a great story and narration!
- De Marcy en 12-02-21
De: Elif Shafak
S Very good read
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Amazing book
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5 generations of the Yoshi family live through the entire last century. So, it is both education and informational and most of all, it pulls the heart’s strings. The book is very well written - I could not put it down!
An amazing tale of love and life
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It is extremely well written.
I am familiar with the history and this historical fiction is very accurate.
There is an amazing scene of the NKVD investigating Georgian nationalists.
This book is so all encompassing.
It has Georgian history.
It has the 1917 revolution.
It has World War 2.
All in the first 1/3 of the book.
And the characters are well developed and you quickly come to care about them.
One of the best books I have purchased on Audible in a long time.
Great Historical Fiction about Georgia and the Soviet Union
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Therefore, the original “chocolatier” cautioned a person in each generation never to use it full strength but, as a most precious spice, only to flavor a dish. It is handed down to each generation. This family saga covers eight generations who learn the balance of good and evil. Over the next 107 years, you follow their journey while the history of some of the bloodiest events in history play out.
To write a summary of this becomes a saga in itself. I will leave this to the other reviewers and here talk about how I was affected by the book. I fell into this book and it swept past before I knew it—all 944 pages of it. There is a strong sense of place and time with fully developed characters that you care about from the very beginning and a history of a very specific country. The end of the book was perfect. So I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys family drama, historical fiction, and chocolate…
Eight Generations, History, and Chocolate
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Amazing novel, ok narration, and mispronounced names and places
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Great story, good performance
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The eight life
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Found the narrator did an outstanding job of managing different voices and characters.
A solid 4.5 stars
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wow!!
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