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The Butterfly Café
- De: Diane Hawley Nagatomo
- Narrado por: Meritt North
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General2 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:1 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1
Set in modern-day Tokyo, The Butterfly Café tells the story of American Jessie Yamada. When her emotionally abusive husband suddenly dies in a traffic accident, she is overcome with guilt because while making plans to leave him, she had often thought how much easier it would be for her if he were dead. Those feelings quickly shift to shock and anger after discovering her entire marriage had been built upon secrets and lies.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story, poor narration
- De Amazon Customer en 11-03-24
- The Butterfly Café
- De: Diane Hawley Nagatomo
- Narrado por: Meritt North
Good story, poor narration
Revisado: 11-03-24
The story has numerous plot turns and keeps you guessing where it is headed. Anyone can enjoy this, but for those who have been to Japan there are many familiar references that will make you smile.
The narrator though butchers just about all the Japanese names and terms. Even common names like Watanabe are mispronounced which really spoiled much the story for this listener.
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Fifty Words for Rain
- A Novel
- De: Asha Lemmie
- Narrado por: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,677
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,475
The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transformation of a bastered girl with Blue blood
- De Emiko Sugita Deri en 10-11-20
- Fifty Words for Rain
- A Novel
- De: Asha Lemmie
- Narrado por: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, Jeena Yi, Sarah Skaer, Louis Ozawa
Painful
Revisado: 12-29-21
So many things in this story plot were too implausible. For one there are Christian based references throughout which would be highly unlikely for this branch of the nobility in Japan. Much of the story takes place in postwar Japan but there is little to no mention of it. The details are wrong on so many fronts. One reason I love audio books is for the proper pronunciation of non-English words, but the narrator’s pronunciation of the Japanese terms is not good. Much of the character’s dialogue lacks contractions which makes it very unnatural. Character development was shallow and cliché.
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