
The Actual Star
A Novel
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Narrado por:
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Carolina Hoyos
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Kareem Ferguson
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Gisela Chipe
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Monica Byrne
David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) spins a brilliant multigenerational saga spanning two thousand years, from the collapse of the ancient Maya to a far-future utopia on the brink of civil war.
The Actual Star takes listeners on a journey over thousands of years and six continents—collapsing three separate timelines into one cave in the Belizean jungle.
An epic saga of three reincarnated souls, this novel demonstrates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, love and hate. The book jumps forward and backward in time among a pair of twins who ruled a Maya kingdom, a young American on a trip of self-discovery, and two dangerous charismatics in a conflict that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.
In each era, age-old questions about existence and belonging and identity converge deep underground. Because only in complete darkness can one truly see the stars.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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maybe I'm daft, but I did not get how it ended
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masterpiece time spanning epic
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Friggin weird
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Best Audio Book So Far
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Echoes of Cloud Atlas
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Notes: some of the themes are a bit graphic (cw: self harm, sex)
Incredibly creative, still processing
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Another comment - I think this book is categorized as science fiction, but people who don't usually like science fiction shouldn't let that discourage them. The science fiction element is just the vision of what the future could be. Really the book is a literary masterwork on humanity, spirituality, and the ties that bind us. I hope this review encourages someone to read the book! It truly is extraordinary.
A Masterpiece
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the performance is excellent
highly entertaining and engrossing
stunning story telling, transcendant
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Fantastic
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Spanning 2000 years of history, in vignettes from the year 1012, 2012 and 3012, the book traces the track from Mayan royalty to the transcendence of consciousness 2000 years later from a religion inadvertently started by a modern 2012 woman on a trip back to partially Mayan roots. Replete with highly researched ancient culture, modern commentary on the struggles of central American indigenous culture in the modern error, and believable future technologically-connected but post-apocalyptic culture and science.
As I heard this on audio-book, the performance was key to maintaining the believably. Each chapter starting out with both Mayan and modern dates helps set the transition from the three eras, but I imagine a READING of the book might be hard to follow, at least for me. I HIGHLY recommend that you get the audio-book as the performances of the vocal talent is superlative and worth it in itself.
There are the necessary modern warnings of disturbing themes (blood letting through self-cutting being one) but I found this much less disturbing than the androgynous confusion of love and physical sex in the future through genetic engineering. Not necessary to the plot, it left me feeling more preached at than enlighten or drawn along with the story. Some of the climate-change/anti-capitalistic themes also seemed preachy and one-dimensional.
But, while making the book a bit longer than perhaps needed, the story idea, story arc, and story-telling is extremely well done. The author has a talent for details of the ancient Maya culture that is fascinating in itself and sure to open the readers mind to new anthropological ideas. The detailed thoughts of ancient Maya royalty is believable and entertaining. The sacrificial rituals and descriptions are sometimes graphic, but necessarily so to tie the story together. And the character development draws you in to each.
This will spur me to read Ms. Byrne's prior work and for me to be looking forward to her next. That is probably the best compliment I can give an author.
The Arc of Religion, mysticism and culture
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