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Enter Ghost
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Nadia Albina
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa, Sonia hasn't been back since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career and now dissolute marriage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Elizabeth en 02-07-25
- Enter Ghost
- De: Isabella Hammad
- Narrado por: Nadia Albina
So many gripping story lines!
Revisado: 08-27-23
I read The Parisian and loved it. Enter Ghost may be completely different, but the common themes of searching for self and national identity, the challenges of love and family run across both books. Sonja is a reflective and fascinating narrator whose honesty and reflexivity I could not get enough of. Gammas makes every scene come alive with detail so the story is a film running before our eyes. The turmoil of Palestine and the heartless occupation is the backdrop and the foreground.
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
- De: Dawnie Walton
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,041
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 923
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 915
Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can’t imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job—despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington Records.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding and timely
- De Darrell HANSCHEN en 04-26-21
Dynamic story of music and poetic Justice
Revisado: 07-12-23
I really did think this was about two actual performers and tried to find them online. Learning that they were really fictional actually did not make it any less real. The author has captured several decades of culture and political thought in a delightfully fascinating story with twists and turns that are unpredictable. The characters are so vibrant, so well delineated that it is hard to put this book down ….and extremely well performed.
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Neruda on the Park
- A Novel
- De: Cleyvis Natera
- Narrado por: Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Alma Cuervo
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
The Guerreros have lived in Nothar Park, a predominantly Dominican part of New York City, for twenty years. When demolition begins on a neighboring tenement, Eusebia, an elder of the community, takes matters into her own hands by devising an increasingly dangerous series of schemes to stop construction of the luxury condos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So enjoyed the journey
- De Anonymous User en 06-07-22
- Neruda on the Park
- A Novel
- De: Cleyvis Natera
- Narrado por: Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Alma Cuervo
Gripping story with fascinating characters, and a great portrait of New York City
Revisado: 06-20-23
It was hard to stop reading or listening or accurately to this book the depth of character development of the two main characters kept me thinking when I wasn’t hearing the novel what would become of them. What would they decide to do next? I appreciated the riddle and paradox of gentrification and displacement of neighborhoods, especially low income neighborhoods of color as a backdrop, an anchor really for the story. A great read it will have you thinking about the story and stories, even after you finished the novel.
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Under the Feet of Jesus
- De: Helena Maria Viramontes
- Narrado por: Nancy Ticotin
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
What Estrella knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Powerful Voice of A Young Girl: Estrella.
- De alysa en 11-08-24
- Under the Feet of Jesus
- De: Helena Maria Viramontes
- Narrado por: Nancy Ticotin
Took me a bit to get into the rhythm then fell in love.
Revisado: 05-27-23
Viramontes describes the sounds, smells my feelings, the fairy soul of each of your characters. It’s a reader you begin to inhabit their daily lives because of the incredible attention to detail that literally puts you in their shoes. It’s hard to read this wonderful book or hear it without being a changed person.
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This Mournable Body
- A Novel
- De: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 11 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and her daily reality ultimately drives her to a breaking point.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please use African readers for African stories
- De Howard en 02-10-20
- This Mournable Body
- A Novel
- De: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
Love the series
Revisado: 04-30-23
So appreciate the story that has deep political meaning and it’s told in such an interesting way. I appreciate all the character sketches and the humor and tragedy.
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