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Out of Darkness, Shining Light
- A Novel
- De: Petina Gappah
- Narrado por: Nyasha Hatendi, Sibongile Mlambo
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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Out of Darkness, Shining Light is the captivating story of the loyal men and women who carried explorer and missionary Dr. Livingstone's body, his papers, and maps, 1,500 miles across the continent of Africa, so his remains could be returned home to England and his work preserved there. Narrated by Halima, the doctor's sharp-tongued cook, and Jacob Wainwright, a rigidly pious freed slave, this is a story that encompasses all of the hypocrisy of slavery and colonization - the hypocrisy at the core of the human heart - while celebrating resilience, loyalty, and love.
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Real and Beautiful
- De Amazon Customer en 10-18-19
- Out of Darkness, Shining Light
- A Novel
- De: Petina Gappah
- Narrado por: Nyasha Hatendi, Sibongile Mlambo
It’s a hard one to listen to-read the book
Revisado: 06-15-22
I’m embarrassed to say that I struggled to understand fully what the narrators said. My ear isn’t trained or familiar with many of the place names (which are all differently called now) or the switching between Arabic, Swahili and other languages for objects and people’s names/titles. There is a glossary provided but it’s difficult to pause the narration and try to remember exactly how the word was pronounced to look it up. For these reasons, I believe reading this book would have been easier. The story is interesting though. It got me thinking and learning more outside of this book about Dr. Livingstone and his interesting life.
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The Women of Troy
- A Novel
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester.
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Painful and exhausting. Beautiful and resonant.
- De Stefan Filipovits en 08-24-21
- The Women of Troy
- A Novel
- De: Pat Barker
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
Nothing really happens
Revisado: 09-27-21
I wanted to love this book. I enjoyed Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls and couldn’t wait for the sequel. The Silence of the Girls alternated each chapter to a new voice of different women. The Women of Troy is only told from Brisas point of view about the other women. It just wasn’t as enjoyable. I really did not like the narration. It was so monotone and this may have contributed to my vet all feelings of just meh for this book.
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