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Title: When Mountains Walked

Author: Kate Wheeler

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Acclaimed author Kate Wheeler collected numerous awards for her short stories before making a splash with this atmospheric first novel. It tells the parallel tales of two women who, suffocating in oppressive marriages, travel to faraway lands and are drawn to the intensity of forbidden love.

Maggie Goodwin and her husband travel deep into the heart of Peru to establish a health clinic. They enlist the help of political revolutionary Vicente Cruz after determining that the owners of a gold mine are poisoning the local water supply. But Maggie is drawn to Vicentes idealism and begins a love affair that mirrors the romance her grandmother had years earlier. As Maggie follows her heart, she faces many of the same obstacles and momentous decisions her grandmother encountered.

As an experienced travel writer, Wheeler colorfully infuses her prose with evocative descriptions of exotic locales. Suzanne Torens powerful narration ensures that When Mountains Walked will resonate long after the final word.

Members Reviews:

Will you like this book?

When there is as much disagreement among reasonable people as this book has engendered, it makes little sense to describe it as either "good" or "bad." So, will you like it? It's pretty long; when you get to the end, will reading it have been worth your while? Put simply, if you enjoy a character's examination of their feelings and believe that a suitable ending is that the principal character has come to terms with the difficult situation in which she finds herself, then yes. If you're a plot-driven type, then no. It's tempting to say that women will love this book and men will hate it, but it's not that simple. My wife ditched it after a couple of chapters, while I finished it, though I was not especially satisfied with how things worked out for Maggie and the men in her life. A quick note on the writing, which is very good. If you are just starting this book do me a favor and count the number of times Kate Wheeler uses the word "belly"/"bellies". I think it may be one of her favorites.

A Great Story; A Gorgeous Psychic Landscape

I savored When Mountains Walked over the course of a summer to allow plenty of time to wander Kate Wheeler's exquisite psychic landscape. The juxtaposition of Althea's and Maggie's stories makes the novel fairly vibrate with emotional intensity. The dimensions of the story are amazingly complex but never confusing, one startling event resonating with another--the death of Althea's child, Maggie's wish to have a child, the conflicting claims of two men, the political and economic drama unfolding in a Peruvian village. I'm in awe of Wheeler's talent for creating characters who play out these interwoven levels with an urgency that accelerates all the way to the book's very satisfying ending. This is a book ambitious in scope and significance--geopolitical and mythic at the same time. The entire world of this novel is a feast for the senses as well as the heart. Wheeler is an elegant writer who attends to the deepest questions of how we are to negotiate desire. For a sense of her range, from the mysteries of love and spirit to the pizzazz of her wit, also read her collection of short stories, Not Where I Started From.

"A Pathetic Schmo"

An extremely weak effort by a talented "writer." Ms.