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Maya Saroya
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Meena Kandasamy
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Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience, and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back - a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.
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A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
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The Ungrateful Refugee
- What Immigrants Never Tell You
- De: Dina Nayeri
- Narrado por: Dina Nayeri
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 96
Aged eight, Dina Nayeri fled Iran along with her mother and brother and lived in the crumbling shell of an Italian hotel-turned-refugee camp. Eventually, she was granted asylum in America. She settled in Oklahoma, then made her way to Princeton University. In this book, Nayeri weaves together her own vivid story with the stories of other refugees and asylum seekers in recent years, bringing us inside their daily lives and taking us through the different stages of their journeys, from escape to asylum to resettlement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of resilience and compassion
- De PAH en 09-06-19
De: Dina Nayeri
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Story
- De Alexa :3 en 09-26-24
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Fury
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Salman Rushdie
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 152
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
The world renowned author of The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie is a Whitbread Award winner and recipient of the Booker Prize. His first truly American novel, Fury is a metaphorically rich black comedy that reflects the pressure-cooker of modern life. Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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surprisingly good
- De David en 11-21-07
De: Salman Rushdie
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Things I've Been Silent About
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Naila Azad
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family portrait in the frame of history
- De Galina COS en 07-02-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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Infidel
- De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Narrado por: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,688
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,785
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,790
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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4 out of 5 stars
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Tough, Candid Assessment
- De Paul Mullen en 02-18-08
De: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Complete Stories
- De: Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Collection
- De XX en 04-25-20
De: Clarice Lispector, y otros
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The Golden Notebook
- De: Doris Lessing
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 27 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 534
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 439
Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive "golden notebook" that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life – emotional, political, and professional – amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ‘50s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcendent narration of a masterpiece.
- De @vmarinelli en 07-03-12
De: Doris Lessing
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Immortality
- De: Milan Kundera
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Milan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer named Kundera. Like Flaubert's Emma or Tolstoy's Anna, Kundera's Agnes becomes an object of fascination, of indefinable longing. From that character springs a novel, a gesture of the imagination that both embodies and articulates Milan Kundera's supreme mastery of the novel and its purpose: to explore thoroughly the great themes of existence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cerebral Crosswinds in Parisian fields
- De W Perry Hall en 01-13-14
De: Milan Kundera
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Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
- Memoir of a Borderline Personality
- De: Merri Lisa Johnson
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson’s account of her borderline personality disorder and how it has affected her life and relationships. Johnson describes the feeling of "bleeding out" unable to tell where she stopped and where her partner began. A self-confessed "psycho girlfriend," she was influenced by many emotional factors from her past. She recalls her path through a dysfunctional, destructive relationship, while recounting the experiences that brought her to her breaking point.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Chaotic, disturbing, meaningless
- De BRB en 04-02-14
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Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies
- Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them
- De: Scarlett Curtis - curator
- Narrado por: Rosie Akerman, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Grace Campbell, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
A diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists open up about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping listeners come to their own personal understanding of the word.
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5 out of 5 stars
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4.5/5 Estrellas
- De Airy en 01-27-21
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Shalimar the Clown
- De: Salman Rushdie
- Narrado por: Aasif Mandvi
- Duración: 18 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 575
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 241
When Maximilian Ophuls is murdered outside his daughter's home by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, it appears to be a political killing. Ophuls is the former U.S. ambassador to India and America's leading figure in counter-terrorism. But there is much more to Ophuls and his assassin, a mysterious man calling himself "Shalimar the Clown", than meets the eye. One woman is at the center of their shared history, a history of betrayal and deception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- De Barry en 12-07-05
De: Salman Rushdie
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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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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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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4 out of 5 stars
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An excellent history lesson
- De Ella en 12-01-09
De: Zainab Salbi, y otros
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The Years
- De: Annie Ernaux
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 196
The Years is a personal narrative of the period of 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present - even projections into the future - photos, books, songs, radio, television, and decades of advertising and headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and written notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect, words of the time, slogans, brands, and names for ever-proliferating objects are given a voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Feelings
- De Elin VanD en 05-10-20
De: Annie Ernaux
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Speak
- A Novel
- De: Louisa Hall
- Narrado por: Suzan Crowley, Christopher Ashman, Adrienne Rusk, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th century to a correctional institute in Texas in the near future, and told from the perspectives of five very different characters, Speak considers what it means to be human and what it means to be less than fully alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Like nothing else
- De Anonymous User en 06-22-17
De: Louisa Hall
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Pages for You
- The Pages for You Series, Book 1
- De: Sylvia Brownrigg
- Narrado por: Abby Craden
- Duración: 6 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The 17-year-old, new to everything around her - college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life - is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gorgeous listen
- De MissLynn en 03-09-20
De: Sylvia Brownrigg
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A Girl Is a Body of Water
- De: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- Narrado por: Tovah Ott
- Duración: 14 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 89
International award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and - most importantly - how they find their way back to each other. In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question that has haunted her childhood: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small Ugandan village of Nattetta - her grandmother, her best friend, and her many aunts - but the absence of her mother follows her like a shadow.
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3 out of 5 stars
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African narrators for African novels!
- De Lynn en 04-24-21