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Homecoming
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Claire Foy
- Duración: 17 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,031
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,655
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,651
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, a local deliveryman makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. Until a phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the compelling audiobook version!
- De Melissas Bookshelf en 04-07-23
- Homecoming
- De: Kate Morton
- Narrado por: Claire Foy
Please Read
Revisado: 05-28-23
If you wish to travel to Australia or England enjoy this intricate and at times spellbinding audible read. I loved getting to know each character and the twists and turns that life presents.
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The Golden Compass
- His Dark Materials, Book 1
- De: Philip Pullman
- Narrado por: Philip Pullman, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20,158
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 15,108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 15,101
Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want. But what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Audio Book I've ever Heard
- De GSDNH en 11-13-03
- The Golden Compass
- His Dark Materials, Book 1
- De: Philip Pullman
- Narrado por: Philip Pullman, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, Alison Dowling, Douglas Blackwell, Jill Shilling, Stephen Thorne, Sean Barrett, Garrick Hagon, John O'Connor, Susan Sheridan, full cast
Could put it down
Revisado: 02-23-21
The performance is a five, the writing is good. The plot, however, has too many conjunctions that left me thinking, how did they happen to be there? Why did she know to look for her exactly there? And so on. A few of those and the fine story telling couldn't hold together, I was tossed out, couldn't offer belief and had to put it down.
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The Quiet People of India
- A Unique Record of the Final Years of the British Raj
- De: Norval Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 9
A unique record of the last 17 years of the British Raj, as seen through the eyes of a young officer of the Indian Political Service. Taken from Norval Mitchell's own original memoir, written in 1975, his son, David, carefully edited the work to produce an account of a man for whom improving the lot of the masses, those quiet people of India, met with ever-increasing frustration by the "dead hand" of British and Indian bureaucracy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Memoirs of a Human Rights Violator...
- De Master Yoda en 04-16-11
- The Quiet People of India
- A Unique Record of the Final Years of the British Raj
- De: Norval Mitchell
- Narrado por: David Mitchell
In context
Revisado: 06-25-20
Yes, the Raj was self serving. Yes, Norval Mitchell served the Raj honestly and with full dedication. Yes, using a cane to punish people is intolerable. And yes, he should have been more focused on the damage the Raj was doing to India. However (and you knew this was coming, right?) he was a product of his time and he departed India 70 years ago after a long and, in terms of the Raj, successful career. I'll give him ample credit for seeing that England's policy toward independence for India was flawed and also self-serving. Between 70 and 100 years ago it was acceptable to cane people, Mitchell himself was caned regularly as a youngster. It was so common he didn't appear to question it deeply and even sent his own children to his old school. I think this is a very good piece of history, carefully written with a view toward accuracy.
And as far as India's attitude goes toward the Raj and their history as a colony I suggest India has done a remarkably better job of dealing with colonial images than my own country. Coronation Park in New Delhi contains statues of colonial heroes, gradually deposited there over the decades following Independence. The park was where the lavish Coronation Durbars held in 1877 and 1903 and houses, among others, statues of Edward VII, Queen Victoria, Lord Halifax, and Lord Willingdon. There is a delightful subtle irony regarding a park filled with obsolete colonial grandees: there they sit, somewhat at a loss to understand why they are there, puzzled at their new location and no longer heroic images to the empire on public view. Some were even reported to have been sold back to Britain and Australia by the Indian government!
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