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Ducks, Newburyport
- 著者: Lucy Ellmann
- ナレーター: Stephanie Ellyne
- 再生時間: 45 時間 34 分
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Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of happy couples, Weapons of Mass Destruction and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. A scorching indictment of America's barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster - a heresy, a wonder - and a revolution in the novel.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- 著者: Elif Shafak
- ナレーター: Alix Dunmore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 11 分
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Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works.
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The Bluest Eye
- 著者: Toni Morrison
- ナレーター: Toni Morrison
- 再生時間: 7 時間 6 分
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It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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The Discomfort of Evening
- 著者: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
- ナレーター: Genevieve Gaunt
- 再生時間: 7 時間 45 分
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Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all.
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The Shadow King
- 著者: Maaza Mengiste
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 16 時間 11 分
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Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale.
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Girl, Woman, Other
- 著者: Bernardine Evaristo
- ナレーター: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- 再生時間: 11 時間 7 分
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From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope....
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Ducks, Newburyport
- 著者: Lucy Ellmann
- ナレーター: Stephanie Ellyne
- 再生時間: 45 時間 34 分
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Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of happy couples, Weapons of Mass Destruction and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. A scorching indictment of America's barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster - a heresy, a wonder - and a revolution in the novel.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- 著者: Elif Shafak
- ナレーター: Alix Dunmore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 11 分
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Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works.
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The Bluest Eye
- 著者: Toni Morrison
- ナレーター: Toni Morrison
- 再生時間: 7 時間 6 分
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It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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The Discomfort of Evening
- 著者: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
- ナレーター: Genevieve Gaunt
- 再生時間: 7 時間 45 分
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Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - unlocking a darkness that threatens to derail them all.
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The Shadow King
- 著者: Maaza Mengiste
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 16 時間 11 分
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Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale.
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Girl, Woman, Other
- 著者: Bernardine Evaristo
- ナレーター: Anna-Maria Nabirye
- 再生時間: 11 時間 7 分
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From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the 20th century to the teens of the 21st, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of 12 characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope....
批評家のレビュー
"Unforgettable second novel.... Obioma's novel is electrifying, a meticulously crafted character drama told with emotional intensity. His invention, combining Igbo folklore and Greek tragedy in the context of modern Nigeria, makes for a rich, enchanting experience." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
"Chigozie Obioma is an audacious and ambitious writer, and quite adept at binding the reader to the irresistible spells he casts. An Orchestra of Minorities is a magisterial accomplishment by any measure, and particularly impressive for the way Obioma orchestrates a tableau in which humans and spirits must interact in a complex, emotionally rich-veined story. Few writers can match Obioma's astonishing range, his deft facility for weaving a mesmeric and triumphant fictive canvas in which - reminiscent of the ancient masters - a cohort of gods presides over and negotiates the fates of humans." (Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods, Inc.)
"Obioma alchemizes his contemporary love story into a mythic quest enhanced by Igbo cosmology.... Magnificently multilayered, Obioma's sophomore title proves to be an Odyssean achievement." (Booklist, starred review)
"Obioma overwhelms readers with a visceral sense of Chinonso's humanity, his love, his rage, and his despair as he struggles between fate and self-determination." (Library Journal, starred review)
あらすじ・解説
A heartbreaking story about a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything to win the woman he loves, by Man Booker finalist and author of The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma
Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria, and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped her in her tracks.
Bonded by this night on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because he is uneducated, Chinonso sells most of his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. But when he arrives he discovers there is no place at the school for him and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who has made the arrangements. Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world which continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali and the farm he called home.
Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination.
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- Mica Denise
- 2019/09/22
Absolutely Brilliant!
This book is absolutely brilliant.
During the first chapter or so I was a bit confused, even angry at the narration. I didn’t think I would complete the book. However, it is so beautifully written that I was soon captivated. I was completely invested. I am extremely happy that I didn’t allow the reviews nor early frustrations deter me from completing it. I’m not sure why I decided to proceed, but this book is one of my all time favorites. I admit at times the situations are embarrassing, frustrating and even depressing, but there are also bits of humor. The writings are rich in knowledge and I am in awe of the authors wealth of wisdom. IN AWE! Highly recommended this book.
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- uniquefashion
- 2019/08/27
just exquisite!
The best book I have listened to in years, like was poetry to my ears. This author's writing is so captivating and he has such a skill for beautifully unraveling a multilayered and complex story with such intricate details..... I enjoyed all of it and so happy I found this book!
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- W Perry Hall
- 2019/04/17
Symphony of thousand natural shocks flesh inherits
This is a superbly written, expertly structured, often captivating, One Hundred Eighty Proof Tragedy, through and through, for which it may well suffer in ratings. Which is too bad, because it is an intelligent and particularly unique, heart-bruising novel.
Describing the story in much detail may well trash the tragedian effects, but, if I may use a crutch for description in two 70s song lyrics: *the things we do for love* and *My body's aching and my time is at hand / I won't make it any other way*
Also, from the Book of Common Prayer, *The iron entered into his soul.*
Finally, see The Book of Job.
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- Tolu
- 2019/11/12
Very good Plot
Was very interesting couldn’t stop listening. I felt connected to the characters, the twist of event was refreshing
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- Expecting
- 2019/11/03
Very Sad
I kept waiting for a glimmer of hope...an intrusion of good luck of some sort. But that never came for the main character Nonso who's life was ridden with tragic event after tragic event until the very end. Nonso's story it narrated by his "chi", his sort of guardian spirit. The story was eloquenty written and is heavily laden with elements of ancient Igbo religion which was very interesting. However, it was such a tragic tale. The story was too melancholic for me. I am still feeling sad for Nonso.
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- barbara
- 2019/02/08
Deep, fascinating, brilliant, frustrating.
This is a multi-layered story in which the protagonist's actions in life are narrated by his chi, or spirit, so the reader is seeing and experiencing Chinonso's life from two simultaneous vantage points: From the meta-level of the spirit, and from the interior world of Chinonso, as described by the spirit. One reviewer commented on how this narrative device keeps us at a remove from the inner workings of Chinonso's mind, and I agree with that, but since Chinonso is basically possessed by and obsessed with his lover, Ndali, the inner workings of his mind seem to run in an endless loop anyway, with only occasional glimpses of reality, so I think the narrative device works well. However, Chinonso's obsession frustrates his chi, and frustrated this reader as well. Have you ever read or watched Othello or Romeo and Juliet, for example, and had the strong desire to yell "Don't do it! Can't you see how stupid you're being?" There are moments like that in abundance in this book. There are long sections, particularly when Chinonso travels to Cyprus to attend college, in which the narrative moves along quickly and sparks with interest. There are other sections, particularly the final two hours of the audiobook, in which the narrative drags into a kind of grinding and painful repetitiveness, and I wanted the chi's observations to stick with the story, and quit with the spirit world stuff. But overall, Obioma's brilliance and energy and vision carry the day. However, in truth, I preferred his earlier novel, "The Fisherman," which was a tour de force. In both novels, the narrator is pitch-perfect and makes the listening experience pure joy.
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- M. Ervin
- 2019/05/06
fantastic!
excellent storytelling... couldn't put it down!!! Has everything... drama, romance, mystery... all weaved together phenomenally
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- Tabitha R. Mann
- 2021/03/08
a cup of tea
the performance lulls you into the story that you feel from afar
sweet sad stoty
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- NYC Belle
- 2021/02/14
Brilliant
This humanity of this book stayed with me. Don’t hesitate to read this GEM! Kudos to Obioma - His second novel The Fisherman was just as moving - keep them coming please - I’ll keep checking :)
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021/01/16
Moving
It is a wonderful book, beautifully written, Made me cry, i felt like I was there.