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- 著者: ミヒャエル・エンデ, 大島 かおり
- ナレーター: 高山 みなみ
- 再生時間: 12 時間 46 分
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時間どろぼうと、ぬすまれた時間を人間にとりかえしてくれた女の子モモのふしぎな物語。人間本来の生き方を忘れてしまっている現代の人々に〈時間〉の真の意味を問う、エンデの名作。
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素晴らしい朗読をありがとうございます
- 投稿者: min 日付: 2020/11/21
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Becoming
- 著者: Michelle Obama
- ナレーター: Michelle Obama
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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語り口からにじみ出る、手本とすべき人柄。
- 投稿者: Kindleのお客様 日付: 2019/02/07
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In Other Words
- 著者: Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein - translator
- ナレーター: Jhumpa Lahiri
- 再生時間: 6 時間 53 分
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In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world.
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Unaccustomed Earth
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- 著者: Jhumpa Lahiri
- ナレーター: Sarita Choudhury, Ajay Naidu
- 再生時間: 10 時間 8 分
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From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself.
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The Namesake
- 著者: Jhumpa Lahiri
- ナレーター: Sarita Choudhury
- 再生時間: 10 時間 10 分
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The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
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The Handmaid's Tale
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Claire Danes
- 再生時間: 11 時間 1 分
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After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.
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Shockingly good
- 投稿者: KH 日付: 2019/01/22
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モモ
- 著者: ミヒャエル・エンデ, 大島 かおり
- ナレーター: 高山 みなみ
- 再生時間: 12 時間 46 分
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時間どろぼうと、ぬすまれた時間を人間にとりかえしてくれた女の子モモのふしぎな物語。人間本来の生き方を忘れてしまっている現代の人々に〈時間〉の真の意味を問う、エンデの名作。
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素晴らしい朗読をありがとうございます
- 投稿者: min 日付: 2020/11/21
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Becoming
- 著者: Michelle Obama
- ナレーター: Michelle Obama
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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語り口からにじみ出る、手本とすべき人柄。
- 投稿者: Kindleのお客様 日付: 2019/02/07
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In Other Words
- 著者: Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein - translator
- ナレーター: Jhumpa Lahiri
- 再生時間: 6 時間 53 分
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In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world.
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Unaccustomed Earth
- Stories
- 著者: Jhumpa Lahiri
- ナレーター: Sarita Choudhury, Ajay Naidu
- 再生時間: 10 時間 8 分
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From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself.
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The Namesake
- 著者: Jhumpa Lahiri
- ナレーター: Sarita Choudhury
- 再生時間: 10 時間 10 分
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The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.
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The Handmaid's Tale
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Claire Danes
- 再生時間: 11 時間 1 分
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After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.
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Shockingly good
- 投稿者: KH 日付: 2019/01/22
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The Kite Runner
- 著者: Khaled Hosseini
- ナレーター: Khaled Hosseini
- 再生時間: 12 時間 1 分
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Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.
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The House on Mango Street
- 著者: Sandra Cisneros
- ナレーター: Sandra Cisneros
- 再生時間: 2 時間 18 分
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Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.
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Dreams from My Father
- A Story of Race and Inheritance
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 7 時間 8 分
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father, a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man, has been killed in a car accident.
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The Graveyard Book
- 著者: Neil Gaiman
- ナレーター: Neil Gaiman
- 再生時間: 7 時間 43 分
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When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.
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The Great Gatsby
- 著者: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- ナレーター: Jake Gyllenhaal
- 再生時間: 4 時間 49 分
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel of the Roaring Twenties is beloved by generations of readers and stands as his crowning work. This new audio edition, authorized by the Fitzgerald estate, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal ( Brokeback Mountain). Gyllenhaal's performance is a faithful delivery in the voice of Nick Carraway, the Midwesterner turned New York bond salesman, who rents a small house next door to the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby. There, he has a firsthand view of Gatsby’s lavish West Egg parties - and of his undying love....
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A Pale View of Hills
- 著者: Kazuo Ishiguro
- ナレーター: Roe Kendall
- 再生時間: 5 時間 59 分
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The story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a story where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.
批評家のレビュー
"Moving and authoritative pictures of culture shock and displaced identity." (Kirkus Reviews)
"The crystalline writing in the nine stories of this Pulitzer Prize-winning debut collection dazzles. These sensitive explorations of the lives of Indian immigrants and expatriates touch on universal themes, making them at once specific and broad in their appeal. Narrator Matilda Novak's light voice is fine for stories written by a young woman, and the hint of melody in her reading is typical of Indian voices." (AudioFile)
あらすじ・解説
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2000
With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian-American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.
Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.
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- Jennifer
- 2007/06/03
Novel-amazing; Audio-mediocre
The stories in this book were amazing. They gave such a beautiful view into the Indian culture. I longed to know the sense of community and comraderie that the author makes so integral a part of these stories. As the stories ended I was sad to end my relationship with the well-drawn and intriguing characters.
The reason I rated this audiobook only 3 stars was not the novel itself, but the narration and production of the audio. I found the narrator's style to be distracting and at times downright annoying. Short interludes of music separated the book into equal sections, but this distracted from the flow of the novel because they often came in the middle of a story and at times in the middle of a character conversation.
Dispite the poor quality of the audio production, I would recommend this novel for its wonderful characterizations and fascinating stories.
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- Sheri
- 2009/06/30
skip it
Since there are so many reviews of the book itself, I will review the narration of the audio version.
First, I was distracted by the narrator's style. Her odd, unnatural, and often nasal enunciation of words was annoying. The amaturish and undulating style of her reading the sentences made me wonder if the author picked a friend or family member who wanted to break into the business. This narrator has no business doing this work. Additionally, the narrator certainly did not capture the emotions of the characters.
Secondly, the producers decided to add music to signify the ending of one "chapter" and the beginning of antoher. However, the chapters in the audio version did not coincide with the stories in the book. The music breaks only served to separate the book in to 6 equal parts, which was in the middle of a story.
While the narrator did read at a decent pace, the up and down vocalizations, the inability to capture sentimental or sad emotions and her odd enunciations made this narration one to skip.
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- Karin
- 2007/05/04
Fresh perspective on love's many maladies
I bought this book after having read the Namesake, because I had enjoyed it so much. I was not disappointed. Each of the nine stories in this book offers a brief glimpse into the narrator's life. The stories offer no grandiose defining moments, but rather a very simple series of affecting moments, most of which center on an Indian protagonist. An American boy's relationship with his Indian nanny; a travel guide in India shares his imaginative subtext as he spends a day with an Indian-American family; etc. The narrator did a wonderful job on this project. I do wish there had been a bit longer break between stories...perhaps with a little music to aid in the transition. I also wish I could have smelled and tasted all of the food in this book! I realized, that during the two weeks I listened to this book, I'd been drawn to cook Indian food twice! (Quite out of the ordinary for me!)
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- Darwin8u
- 2014/01/15
Tension between foreignness and loneliness
Some of the stories were brilliant, some were very good and only a couple were meh. This novel captures for me the right tension between foreignness and loneliness and those small wires, crumbs of connection that bridge people and cultures. Yeah, I dug it.
Personally, I don't care about awards (See William H. Gass). And I really don't care that she's a woman (other than the fact that I'm trying to read more women this year) or that she's Indian American (although both are a significant part of this collection).
I don't believe she was subsidized for either being a woman or being Indian, of if she was I really don't care. Everybody is subsidized by something. White men get the white men subsidy. The rich get the rich subsidy. The educated get the educated subsidy. The poor and broken get the helluva life story subsidy. If I could sum it up, I'd guess that this book probably won the writer lottery: the right good book gets published at the perfect momemnt.
The stories themselves gave me the same temperate, nuanced, soft vibe I get when I read Kazuo Ishiguro or Julian Barnes. So, at least in my mind, she fits/resonnates more into/with the: über-educated, upper-middle, British/East Coast US, 'outsider now inside' club(s) more than the female writer or even Indian American clubs. But then again, I could be wrong.
Anyway, I don't have to say that this was her first published book and she still ended up writing (from what I've heard) solid, serious fiction. So that.
BRILLIANT STORIES:
#1 A Temporary Matter
#3 Interpreter of Maladies
#6 Mrs Sen's
#7 This Blessed House
GOOD STORIES:
#2 When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
#5 Sexy
#9 The Third and Final Continent
MEH STORIES:
#4 A Real Durwan
#8 The Treatment of Bibi Haldar
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The reading was good, but the editing was ok. I wasn't a fan of the sound-effects thrown into the middle of chapters and suspect it was done to cover an editing issue. There were also several points where it was evident that there was a break in the reading: volume, reading changed. That is fine that readers need a break, but good post-productin could have masked that a bit better. Other than that I had NO problems with Matilda's read.
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- Nicole
- 2010/10/18
Appallingly bad reading!
This is probably a good book, but the reading in terrible. First off all the reading is very choppy, she cuts all sentences into little phrases, the phrases are read a bit too fast, with long pauses between them, its OK for about 5 minutes or so, then gets very annoying. But the worst is the reader's voice, it is so very, very, very prissy, and she sort of gushes with 'pleasedness' at the most random moments. She does this once in the sample, so listen carefully, because the sample is the lest prissy 5 minutes of the whole book. The style would probably be OK for a trashy romance novel, but this book has a dark side, and the reading style completely destroys this. Also as other reviewers have noted, the book is cut up into chapters, that don't align with the stories.
Don't get this as an audiobook.
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- Michael
- 2015/04/01
Underwhelming
This is a highly touted, award-winning collection of nine short stories and is on several “best” lists.
I found most of these stories superficial, and the writing quite ordinary.
I love short stories, but these stories seemed to focus on the shallowest aspects of both Indian and US culture. I liked the last two stories the best, but these were only above average. The rest of the stories did not make me laugh or cry or give me shivers or move me or shock me or surprise me or make me consider deeply. Yet the stories were not bad, and the writing was not bad. I did not find myself liking, or respecting, any of the characters. Yes, real life can be shallow and tedious but I don’t need to read that part in short stories.
These stories seemed like they could be short scenes in novels, if supported by the structure and story and characters of a novel. On their own, they seemed a bit pointless.
The audio production was down right annoying. The chapters do not align with the stories and there are discordant musical interludes between and within stories. The tone of the narrator was peppy and light, as if this was a children’s book, and I found the narration clashed sharply with the material. I certainly will not listen to this book again.
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- Alexa
- 2013/10/10
Disapointing presentation
What did you like best about Interpreter of Maladies? What did you like least?
Presenting short stories on audio is always challenging. Either too long or too short a pause between 2 stories is awkward. In this case I'd say the producer got it just wrong. There are musical selections between sections of stories, and a rapid fire movement between stories. I could never tell where I was in a tale.
And what is the deal with lovely classical guitar music - in stories that are about Indian immigrants to the US... I can see Jazz, or classical (both have places in the short stories) but this music, while quite nice was just wrong.
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- Pree Bee
- 2018/08/14
Wonderful
5 stars for the author's prowess. What a wonderful collection of open ended short stories. I loved the stories. The stories are wonderful and enjoyable, some sad, some pleasant. These stories hit close to home as a Bengali American, totally relatable. Overall 3 stars because I hated the narrator as she mispronounced so many simple Indian pronunciations. Also like there aren't any Indian narrators that could have been used for a more authentic feel?
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- EmilyK
- 2015/11/29
wonderful short stories; good narration
I read these stories in print when they were first published, and was excited to re-encounter them as an audiobook when both of my sons read them for school in 8th grade.
I'm very interested in India and Indian culture, and these stories resonated for me in the mixing and clash of cultural identities.
Both my sons enjoyed this as 13 year olds, but I wouldn't say it was their favorite book for school.
I thought the narrator did a very good job.
My biggest beef -- and this is serious -- is that the musical interludes come at random times and not at the end of a short story. I so wish the chapters had been divided by story! It was so hard to use this for school, and unlikely to make me re-listen when I can't easily find the story I want.
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- Hansi
- 2012/03/20
Decent reader, disappointing preparation.
Any additional comments?
It's fair to call Lahiri an American writer; therefore there's nothing wrong with having a non-South Asian American as a narrator. However, I do wish Ms. Novak had done a little more research about the pronunciation of Indian words (Dixit, Laxmi, Lucknow, etc.).
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- Snuggle mum
- 2016/04/01
A pleasant read
A vivid book from a talented author. I bought this in error while searching for another book of hers. I was caught out just as I was when I read it years ago, it's short stories!
It would be helpful if the stories were clearly delineated in this audio book as the transitions weren't always clear.
The performance was clear and I wouldn't mind hearing this reading in some other books if appropriate. However I found her American accent very distracting and somewhat annoying especially when reading stories set in India. I have never heard an American story in an Indian accent so I found this equally as ridiculous. Without being stereotypical I feel a better selection should have been made.
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- 匿名
- 2020/10/02
I wanted to like it but...
But it did not touch my heart. I learned things about Indian culture. But it was not for me. I wanted to like it because the author is such a nice person judging from the videos I have seen with her. As far as the narrator goes I don’t understand why the only “accents” she ever attempted was broad American but never even a single “indian” accent. I changed it to a three. But had put a two at first. I will not recommend the book to anyone. Nor do I fee Robbed for having listened to it.
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- Charlotte
- 2016/02/21
Wouldn't suggest
Though the voice over is clear and easy to understand, the story is very boring, there are no climaxes or dramatic scenes