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A Cup of Friendship
- A Novel
- ナレーター: Mozhan Marno
- シリーズ: Little Coffee Shop of Kabul
- 再生時間: 9 時間 31 分
- カテゴリー: 文学・フィクション, 女性文学
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Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped. When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer. Together with her sister Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of Horrors into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her six siblings - and with the childhood they shared.
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1945. Allied forces liberate Nazi-occupied Brno, Moravia. For Gerta Schnirch, daughter of a Czech mother and a German father aligned with Hitler, it’s not deliverance; it’s a sentence. She has been branded an enemy of the state. Caught in the changing tides of a war that shattered her family - and her innocence - Gerta must obey the official order: she, along with all ethnic Germans, is to be expelled from Czechoslovakia. With nothing but the clothes on her back and an infant daughter, she’s herded among thousands, driven from the only home she’s ever known.
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The Skylark's Secret
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- 再生時間: 9 時間 53 分
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Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper's daughter Flora's remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy's Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird's son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems doomed.
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Girl A
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Lex Gracie doesn’t want to think about her family. She doesn’t want to think about growing up in her parents’ House of Horrors. And she doesn’t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped. When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can’t run from her past any longer. Together with her sister Evie, Lex intends to turn the House of Horrors into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her six siblings - and with the childhood they shared.
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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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The Last Piece
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A Single Swallow
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On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast - in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II - three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of their younger days. Now, seventy years later, the pledge is being fulfilled by American missionary Pastor Billy, brash gunner’s mate Ian Ferguson, and local soldier Liu Zhaohu. All that’s missing is Ah Yan - also known as Swallow.
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The Vanishing Half
- A Novel
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: Their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her Black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for White, and her White husband knows nothing of her past.
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A Man Called Ove
- A Novel
- 著者: Fredrik Backman
- ナレーター: J. K. Simmons
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Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell”. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Fredrik Backman’s novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others.
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Five French Hens
- 著者: Judy Leigh
- ナレーター: Annie Aldington
- 再生時間: 9 時間 50 分
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When 73-year-old Jen announces that she is going to marry Eddie, a man she met just a few months previously on a beach on Boxing Day, her four best friends from aqua aerobics are flabbergasted. The wedding is booked and, when the groom decides to have a stag trip to Las Vegas, the ladies arrange a hen party to beat all others - a week in the city of love, Paris.
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In Darkness, Look for Stars
- 著者: Clara Benson
- ナレーター: Daphne Kouma
- 再生時間: 13 時間 29 分
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Paris, 1941: Going against her mother’s orders, spirited Maggie devotes herself to the Resistance. Her life is a whirlwind of forged passports and secret midnight runs, helping Jews escape. Much to her high-society mother’s disapproval, she has fallen in love with Emil, a Jewish Resistance fighter who is wanted by the Nazis.
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The Beekeeper's Promise
- 著者: Fiona Valpy
- ナレーター: Henrietta Meire
- 再生時間: 8 時間 20 分
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Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman’s story, a story that could change the course of her summer - and her life. In 1938, Eliane Martin tends beehives in the garden of the beautiful Château Bellevue. In its shadow she meets Mathieu Dubosq and falls in love for the first time, daring to hope that a happy future awaits.
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From the author of the “bighearted . . . inspiring” (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there - thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship.
After hard luck and some bad choices, Sunny has finally found a place to call home - it just happens to be in the middle of a war zone. The thirty-eight-year-old American’s pride and joy is the Kabul Coffee House, where she brings hospitality to the expatriates, misfits, missionaries, and mercenaries who stroll through its doors. She’s especially grateful that the busy days allow her to forget Tommy, the love of her life, who left her in pursuit of money and adventure.
Working alongside Sunny is the maternal Halajan, who vividly recalls the days before the Taliban and now must hide a modern romance from her ultratraditional son - who, unbeknownst to her, is facing his own religious doubts. Into the café come Isabel, a British journalist on the trail of a risky story; Jack, who left his family back home in Michigan to earn “danger pay” as a consultant; and Candace, a wealthy and well-connected American whose desire to help threatens to cloud her judgment.
When Yazmina, a young Afghan from a remote village, is kidnapped and left on a city street pregnant and alone, Sunny welcomes her into the café and gives her a home - but Yazmina hides a secret that could put all their lives in jeopardy. As this group of men and women discover that there’s more to one another than meets the eye, they’ll form an unlikely friendship that will change not only their own lives but the lives of an entire country.
Brimming with Deborah Rodriguez’s remarkable gift for depicting the nuances of life in Kabul, and filled with vibrant characters that readers will truly care about, A Cup of Friendship is the best kind of fiction - full of heart yet smart and thought-provoking.
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- teatime
- 2011/06/19
A cup of friendship
This is a lovely little book and easy to listen to. I also learned a lot about Afganastan and the Taliban. The story is fairly predictable, but told in a way that was interesting and held my attention ... yes, even while driving on the Interstate. Perfect summer book.
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- Donna
- 2014/01/08
Love it!!!!
What made the experience of listening to A Cup of Friendship the most enjoyable?
With so many words not familiar to an English speaker it was entertaining to hear how to pronounce them correctly.
What was one of the most memorable moments of A Cup of Friendship?
I can not pick just one. So many great sub plots.
What does Mozhan Marno bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Of course Deborah Rodriguez writes the most amazing novels and I am waiting for her next, but I need to sign the praises of the narration. Mozhan Marno is a joy to listen to. She never screeches, always has a pleasant voice. Marno has a numerous accents down pat, and gives different characters their own cadence. Isabell sounds haughty, Yasminia sounds humble. What a joy! I will look for other books read by her!
If you could rename A Cup of Friendship, what would you call it?
I liked the original name. Cup of friendship doesn't tell me that it is about life in Afghanistan. If I wasn't looking for more books written by Deborah Rodriguez, I wouldn't have found this book.
Any additional comments?
Debbie, please write more books.
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- Kelsey White
- 2018/01/10
Colorful and heartwarming
A charming story about how a little coffee shop changed the lives of the many that frequented it.
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- Melanie bell
- 2020/07/26
Loved this so much!
Enjoyed the audible of this book. Her voices for the characters really helped me keep them all straight.
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- Kate Yonder
- 2019/10/12
Short and Educational
This book was chosen for our international Bookclub. Though short and a bit whatever regarding the love life of the coffee shop owner, I found the novel to be both eye opening and educational. Prior to this, I had no idea how Afghan women are treated until this very day. Quite sad and most unfortunate. Worth the time to read. Performance is great!
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- SungHee Michelle Lim
- 2018/10/02
A perfect first fiction on audible, no regrets
I was recommended to read this book and it was my very first audible fiction I read and the first one ever to actually have gone through the ending as I tend to easily get sick of books about half-way through. This was the first one I actually came to listen to every single day and just loved it, which made me feel like wanting to purchase the e-book version of the following series. Lovely storyline with detailed description of the traditional costumes, not very overwhelming explanation of the background which didn’t disturb reading it through without much of the cultural background of the setting. I loved it!
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- Mia
- 2014/12/20
A match for The Kite runner!
If you could sum up A Cup of Friendship in three words, what would they be?
Female - power, friends love
What other book might you compare A Cup of Friendship to and why?
The Kite runner! They both discuss Afghanistan and the people who lives there. This book addresses the female but unlike the follow - up to The kite - runner this leaves you with hope.The help: Also about friends and the fight for FreedomWho asked you? Same topic
What does Mozhan Marno bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She gives each their true voice.
Who was the most memorable character of A Cup of Friendship and why?
Jack: A brave man who is not afraid to risk his life to save his female friends.
Any additional comments?
Totally wow - listen! Honesty, I have listened 20 times since buying it and I am delighted to say it still takes me to new levels.