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The Sunbird
- De: Wilbur Smith
- Narrado por: Piers Hampton
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
A lost civilisation. A curse reborn. Dr Ben Kazin has only a blurred photograph and a gut instinct that there is a lost city to uncover somewhere beneath the Botswana cliffs. Soon, a whispered curse and a chance encounter with a local tribe lead him to discover much more than city foundations. The curse, it seems, is real, and will link Ben, his oldest friend and the woman they both love with a forgotten leader from 2,000 years ago, in a city of glory and honour that subsequently disappeared without a trace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story marred by 1970s cultural bigotry
- De John en 02-15-20
- The Sunbird
- De: Wilbur Smith
- Narrado por: Piers Hampton
Well read, unforgettable story
Revisado: 05-08-24
The reader of this title did an excellent job with differentiating the characters and performing the accents while still being very easily understood to the listener, even to someone like me, who has hearing loss.
Obviously the book, having been written years ago, reflects the racism and sexism of the times (i.e, Black characters and women characters are not written with much depth), but the author manages to vividly relate the story from differing viewpoints.
The story is told with great detail in both "present" day and in the past, but I did not find the ending in the "present" to be very satisfying. I do have to admit that I first read The Sunbird as a condensed version in Reader's Digest a LONG time ago, re-read it in the 1990s, and am now in 2024 listening to the audiobook, so it is clearly a story I have not been able to forget
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