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The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
- De: Darina Al-Joundi
- Narrado por: Lameece Issaq
- Duración: 3 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 9
Raised on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux in 1970s Lebanon, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. As the bombs fell, she lived an adolescence of excess and transgression, defying death in nightclubs. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment by day of the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father's last wish is for his favorite song, "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surviving Civil War
- De Susie en 09-30-13
- The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing
- De: Darina Al-Joundi
- Narrado por: Lameece Issaq
Relive traumatic events of the Lebanese war thru the eyes of a teenager
Revisado: 10-24-23
I enjoyed listening to this audiobook and the retelling of the discrete coming of age stories during very violent times in Lebanon and the Middle East. We usually only get the official narratives about the war, it’s always refreshing to hear how the civilians experienced it day to day. In the same vein, I recommend the podcast ‘maabar’ if you understand arabic. As an aside, the dad was quite “liberal” even by 21st century standards, even a bit eccentric, he would have been an interesting person to meet.
On the other hand, I wish the narrator had practiced reading the names of people and places a bit. I winced at every mispronunciation they made, and there were plenty of those, they were quite distracting.
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