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Título: Diez mujeres [Ten Women]

Autor: Marcela Serrano

Narrador: Catalina Munoz

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 10 hrs and 29 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 05-31-16

Editor: Audible Studios para Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Calificaciones: 4 de 5 de 6 votos

Categorías: Fiction, Literary

Resumen del editor:

Un retrato implacable del alma femenina por la autora de El albergue de las mujeres tristes.

Nueve mujeres, muy distintas entre sí y que nunca se han visto antes, comparten sus historias. Natasha, su terapeuta, ha decidido reunirlas en la convicción de que las heridas empiezan a sanar cuando se rompen las cadenas del silencio.

No importa el origen ni la extracción social, la edad o la profesión: todas acarrean sobre sus hombros el peso del miedo, la soledad, el deseo, las inseguridades. A veces ante un pasado que no pueden dejar atrás; otras, ante un presente que no se parece a lo que habrían deseado, o un futuro que las asusta. Madres, hijas, esposas, viudas, amantes: guiadas por Natasha, las protagonistas aceptan el desafío de comprender y reinventar sus vidas.

Una novela que sorprende, conmueve y deja en vilo: una mirada reveladora y valiente a las relaciones humanas en el mundo de hoy.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Chick flick

I am learning Spanish and I was looking for some easy read, that would capture me, so I don't have to push myself through it. If you have some intermediate level of Spanish, and probably a female, this is great for your reading in Spanish. I am 50 year young and I could relate to many of the stories. Although stories are from women of different ages. Chilean slang didn't bother me, as one the readers complained. The author is from Chile, she writes about women living in Chile, what would you expect??? You just Google a word and get familiarized with this country Spanish particularities. I wish those stories would keep coming. I didn't want this book to end. I just loved it!!! Another book that I would recommend is Sexperiencias. I will write a review on that book.

Una de las diez mujeres: Mané

Mané es un personaje de ficción. Ella, artista de teatro y diva de la vida, lleva siempre el deseo de vivir. No es una genio y, sin embargo, sus conversaciones y diálogos son una mezcla de picardía sazonada con ironía y que envuelven verdades y conectan al lector con el texto. Mané es un personaje de una novela, Diez mujeres, de la autora chilena Marcela Serrano. En su carrera artística, conoce en una sola noche el resplandor de una estrella. Fue una noche de estreno y ella era la protagonista. Tenía de invitado especial a su esposo quien a su vez era poeta. Mané triunfa esa noche pero pierde a su esposo. Éste muere atropellado en una calle cuando se dirige al teatro. A partir de ese momento, Mané pierde el rumbo de su vida. A la medianía de edad empieza un calvario que no había imaginado y cae en lo peor que la vida ofrece cuando se acaba la esperanza. Pasa el tiempo y le llega el tiempo que ella llama de la serenidad. Con una exigua ayuda económica de su retiro, vive dignamente o desvive lentamente sus recuerdos. Ella, en un punto de su vejez acepta: "La vida me había dado un regalo enorme: había sido amada. Y había amado a mi vez".

Diez mujeres...excelente novela.

I enjoyed the book

I enjoyed the book, I have read other books by Marcela Serrano that I have enjoyed more. I didn't like the structure of this book, the 10 women whom I met in the book, were well developed characters but not memorable.

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Title: Serafina i kochankowie

Author: Krystyna Nepomucka

Narrator: Hanna Kinder-Kiss

Format: Unabridged

Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-16

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Niezwykla historia mlodziutkiej Serafiny, która zycie wystawilo na ciezka próbe, pozbawiajac domu rodzinnego. Odpowiedzialnosc za jej los bierze w swoje chciwe rece postarzala ciotka Apolonia, wyznajaca zasade, ze nic tak nie wyniszcza kobiety jak praca i nadmierne myslenie, a najwiekszy kapital kazdej panny stanowi uroda. Ów kapital ma zapewnic Serafinie dostatnie zycie u boku godnego partnera - a godnym, zdaniem ciotki, moze byc jedynie mezczyzna stateczny, w wieku, w którym ma sie wieksze sklonnosci do sadla i kont bankowych, niz do kobiet...

Serafina przechodzi z rak do rak, przez jej lózko przewija sie caly wachlarz podstarzalych kochanków i potencjalnych sponsorów oczekujacych zaspokojenia ich wymyslnych, a bywa, ze i niedorzecznych, pragnien. Az wreszcie któregos dnia na jej drodze pojawia sie Alojzy...

Okazuje sie jednak, ze zwiazek z nim daleki bedzie od idealu, jakim na pozór wydaje sie poznany w Ciechocinku mezczyzna. Choc zauroczony i zapatrzony w Serafine jak w lustro, Alojzy ma jednak dosc uciazliwa wade...

Zabawna, wciagajaca ksiazka Krystyny Nepomuckiej w groteskowy sposób opisuje twarda rzeczywistosc, w której oczywiste wartosci nabieraja zupelnie innego wymiaru.

Please note: This audiobook is in Polish.

©2013 The Estate of Krystyna Nepomucka (P)2013 Storybox

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Title: Monsun (The Third Courtney Series 2)

Author: Wilbur Smith

Narrator: Ole Rabendorf

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-13-16

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Da Hal Courtney staevner ud med to skibe fra England for at tilintetgre de fraekke pirater, der ombringer East India Company's skibe i begyndelsen af 1700-tallet, aner han ikke, at det skal blive den mest skaebnesvangre rejse, han nogen sinde har foretaget. Han har sine tre snner, Tom, Guy og Dorian, med om bord. Men snart m han sende Guy videre med et af skibene, for at han kan eskortere familien Beatty til Bombay. Guy har forelsket sig i datteren Caroline Beatty, men Tom og hun har haft et heftigt forhold om bord. Derfor er Guy rasende p Tom og glad, da deres veje skilles. Hal laegger nu alle faelder ud for at opspore piraterne, men de er klogere end som s. De har allerede spioner ude, der finder ud af, at Hal er efter dem. Men Hal er overmodig og tager kampen op. Med katastrofale flger...

©2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof. Translated by Hans Hansen (P)2016 Lindhardt og Ringhof

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Title: A God in Every Stone

Author: Kamila Shamsie

Narrator: Joan Walker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-05-16

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. 1000 of miles away a 20-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army.

Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that will reveal itself 15 years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.

Critic Reviews:

"First-rate - intelligent, vivid and completely absorbing." (Daily Mail)

"I can't recommend A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie too strongly - this is her best novel yet...Exciting and, in the end, profoundly moving, this will solace you during the grimmest holiday." (Antonia Fraser, Guardian Summer Reading)

"A moving story of love and betrayal, generosity and brutality, hope and injustice, full of characters that stay with you ... Will surely confirm Shamsie's increasing eminence in the British world of letters." (Financial Times)

Members Reviews:

A potent moment in time

I found this book captivating - the vivid descriptions, especially of India/Pakistan as it moved toward independence were evocative and informative. I love well-researched historical fiction where I can gain new perspectives and understanding. This book did not disappoint - though I found the content quite different from what I expected based on the publisher's description. The narration was terrific as well. A rich experience.

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Title: Vreau s-mi spui, frumoas Zaraza

Author: Mircea Cartarescu

Narrator: Mircea Cartarescu

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Acest audiobook este reeditarea CD-ului Parfumul aspru al fictiunii.

Please note: This audiobook is in Romanian.

(P)2009 Humanitas

Critic Reviews:

Mircea Cartarescu pare acum definitiv captivat de proza. O proza densa si profunda, realista si onirica,descriptiva si halucinanta, mustind de subiectivitate ca buretele de apa, populata de de personaje si de obiecte fascinante, atrasa de promiscua subterana psihanalitica si luminata de splendide curcubee baroce.

-- Nicolae Manolescu (la prima editie a romanului Orbitor)

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Title: Cercul mincinoilor

Subtitle: Poveti filozofice din lumea întreaga

Author: Jean-Claude Carrière

Narrator: Valentin Uritescu

Format: Abridged

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Primii mincinosi ai lumii sunt povestitorii. Dar cele aproape patru sute de istorioare adunate in acest volum de Jean-Claude Carriere nu sunt nici mituri, nici parabole religioase si cu atat mai putin epopei. Vii, alerte, uneori deconcertante sau fals naive, ele recompun spiritul umanitatii in cele mai diverse ipostaze ale sale, venind fie din spatiul buddhist sau islamic, fie din cel chinez, african, evreiesc, indian sau amerindian. Dincolo de diferentele care apar de la o traditie la alta, regasesti pretutindeni problema dreptatii si a mortii, dificultatea traiului in comun si tema raportului maestru-discipol.

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©1998 Plon (P)2010 Humanitas

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Title: Kim

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Narrator: Marcin Popczynski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-16

Publisher: Heraclon / storybox.pl

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Polish.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Kipling captured the English Rahj quite well. This time is long gone, but it was still an interesting culture.

Oh East is East and West is West...

Like the Kipling poem that supplied my title, the novel Kim represents a counterpoint of East and West. The two main characters, British orphan Kim and the Tibetan monk, represent polar opposites -- youth and age, worldliness and otherworldliness, intrigue and detachment, Western and Eastern civilizations, religions, and world-views -- and yet they become friends, develop a relationship of mutual respect and help each other accomplish their objectives.

Rudyard Kipling is well known as an author of boys' adventure stories, and while Kim can be read as such by younger readers it is much more than that. Traditional views of Kipling, that he was an apologist for the British Empire who despised the "lesser races" that made it up, are likewise not entirely just. In this novel he brings many threads together, with India a sort of third character -- a complex India with many ethnicities and cultures living in close proximity under the benevolent rule of the British Raj. His encyclopedic knowledge of those many cultures comes out with incredible wealth of detail, as well as frequent use of words borrowed from Farsi, Sanscrit, Hindi, and Arabic, some of which have since become part of the English language, but many of which will be new to the American reader. If you haven't read Kim yet, you should -- it's entertaining and also has a humanistic and moral theme -- that humans are more alike than different, -- just like the Ballad of East and West.

This particular version has a helpful Foreword by an English professor that brings out the scholarly view of the work. Type is legible for a paperback of only slightly more than "pocketbook" size. The only criticism I have of the production of the book is that footnotes at the bottom of each page, properly numbered, would have given an appropriate Victorian feel to the book as well as being much easier on the reader. As it is, all those unfamiliar words have to be looked up in the back of the book, requiring much riffling through pages, and even then, they aren't divided up by chapter, but under page number headings.

Kim by Kipling: the touchstone for 200 years of spy novels

Kipling's KIM is perhaps the best spy novel of the last 200 years. It is strikingly contemporary in its portrayal of the dark and dirty side of the spy game, its robust understanding of India, and its honest respect for the myriad ethnic differences of that complex nation. The darker works of John le Carre such as THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD come close to matching the weltshmertz but not the grit and sophistication of Kipling's presentation of the Great Game as it was played in India. KIM paints a world in which no one can be trusted and any, even children, may be sacrificed to advance government policy.

The reader would do well to do a little research into the Great Game, the first Cold War, an espionage battle between Britain and Imperial Russia between the early 1800s and the Russian Revolution (and in fact, until India's independence in 1947). Generations of British spies earned their bones in the Great Game, and the lessons they learned shaped British intelligence through the Cold War. Many have tried to convey the utter creepiness of espionage at the street level.

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Title: Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Boris Fishman

Narrator: Boris Fishman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-01-16

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story - an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she's given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom the world wants us to be.

Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with "a devil in [her] head" about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he was the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life.

Twenty years later Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father's second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max - adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex's view that "adopted children are second-class".

At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents - with whom Max's biological mother left the child with the cryptic exhortation "don't let my baby do rodeo" - Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit facedown in a river.

Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max's birth parents - the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives. But it's Maya who's illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family.

Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong.

Members Reviews:

such a terrible reader it's not even worth it

Don't let authors read their books. They are not actors. I have no idea if this is a good book because the read is so boring and thin and annoying. Writers should write and actors should act. To take the cheap way out and have a writer read his own book was a very bad decision. He could not be worse. Again, it might be a good book, but who wants to stick around and find out with a read like this

Nearly ruined by Author reading his own book.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would not recommend this audio book because the reading was nearly intolerable. I don't know why so many writers insist on reading their own works. They're rarely good at it. Writing is one thing, reading as performance is another thing entirely. Mr. Fishman reads the prose as if he's reading scripture, with a singsong approach that is both boring and irritating. I think this was an rather intriguing book, but I'm really not sure. The narration stood in the way.

East meets West, then heads East.

Well crafted story about an extended family. There's only one three dimensional character though. The rest seem to be two dimensional foils. No spoilers here. Listen to a sample and decide.

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Title: Craii de Curtea-Veche

Author: Mateiu I. Caragiale

Narrator: Andrei Plesu

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-16

Publisher: Humanitas

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This audiobook is in Romanian.

Members Reviews:

Este, din pcate, incomplet

Lectura lui Pleu, cu un aer uor nostalgic, aduce la via minunata scriitura a lui Mateiu Caragiale. Din nefericire, s-a strecurat o eroare la publicarea pe audible - lipsete o bucat din ultima parte a crii, finalul.

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Title: Native

Subtitle: Dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian Life

Author: Sayed Kashua, Ralph Mandel - translator

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

Sayed Kashua has been praised by The New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society". An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to telling the Palestinian story and exploring the contradictions of modern Israel while also capturing the nuances of everyday family life in all its tenderness and chaos.

With an intimate tone fueled by deep-seated apprehension and razor-sharp ironic wit, Kashua has been documenting his own life as well as that of society at large: He writes about his children's upbringing and encounters with racism, about fatherhood and married life, the Jewish-Arab conflict, his professional ambitions, travels around the world as an author, and - more than anything - his love of books and literature. He brings forth a series of brilliant, caustic, wry, and fearless reflections on social and cultural dynamics as experienced by someone who straddles two societies.

Written between 2006 and 2014, Native is like an unrestrained, profoundly thoughtful personal journal.

Members Reviews:

What a wonderful book

An amazing book that shows how colonialism is still alive in Palestine and what remains of it.