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Real Life
- A Novel
- 著者: Brandon Taylor
- ナレーター: Kevin R. Free
- 再生時間: 9 時間 25 分
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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, Black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends - some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.
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My Own Words
- 著者: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- ナレーター: Linda Lavin
- 再生時間: 13 時間 16 分
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and more.
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- 著者: Trevor Noah
- ナレーター: Trevor Noah
- 再生時間: 8 時間 44 分
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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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A moving account of one’s life in South Africa
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/06/14
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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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Beloved
- 著者: Toni Morrison
- ナレーター: Toni Morrison
- 再生時間: 12 時間 3 分
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- 著者: John M. Barry
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 19 時間 26 分
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In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 months than AIDS killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.
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Real Life
- A Novel
- 著者: Brandon Taylor
- ナレーター: Kevin R. Free
- 再生時間: 9 時間 25 分
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Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, Black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends - some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness.
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My Own Words
- 著者: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- ナレーター: Linda Lavin
- 再生時間: 13 時間 16 分
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and more.
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Born a Crime
- Stories from a South African Childhood
- 著者: Trevor Noah
- ナレーター: Trevor Noah
- 再生時間: 8 時間 44 分
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In this award-winning Audible Studios production, Trevor Noah tells his wild coming-of-age tale during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa. It’s a story that begins with his mother throwing him from a moving van to save him from a potentially fatal dispute with gangsters, then follows the budding comedian’s path to self-discovery through episodes both poignant and comical.
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A moving account of one’s life in South Africa
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/06/14
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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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Beloved
- 著者: Toni Morrison
- ナレーター: Toni Morrison
- 再生時間: 12 時間 3 分
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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The Great Influenza
- The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
- 著者: John M. Barry
- ナレーター: Scott Brick
- 再生時間: 19 時間 26 分
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In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called Spanish Flu teach us about the fight against present day crises and how to prepare for future outbreaks? At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in 24 months than AIDS killed in 24 years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.
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Convenience Store Woman
- 著者: Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori - translator
- ナレーター: Nancy Wu
- 再生時間: 3 時間 21 分
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Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in - neither in her family, nor in school - but when at the age of 18 she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted to be able to exist in a place where the rules of social interaction are crystal clear (many are laid out line-by-line in the store's manual), Keiko does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and mode of speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a "normal" person excellently, more or less.
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The Salt Path
- A Memoir
- 著者: Raynor Winn
- ナレーター: Anne Reid
- 再生時間: 11 時間 2 分
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Just days after Raynor Winn learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their house and farm are taken away, along with their livelihood. With nothing left, they make the impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, through Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival, they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea, and sky. Yet through every step, every encounter, and every test along the way, their walk becomes a remarkable and life-affirming journey.
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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 Forty Rules of Love
- 著者: Elif Shafak
- ナレーター: George Blagden
- 再生時間: 11 時間 55 分
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Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the 13th-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his 40 rules of life and love, she is shocked out of herself. Turning her back on her family, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- 著者: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- ナレーター: Zainab Jah
- 再生時間: 18 時間 9 分
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Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister. As the horrific Biafran War engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined.
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"Beautiful and devastating." (Marlon James)
"Unforgettably conveyed by the narrator Robin Miles, whose upbringing in the ethnic melting pot of New Jersey has enhanced her gift for entering into character...the listener never feels lost, only more deeply involved. It is easily the best title on the Booker 2020 longlist." (Christina Hardyment, The Times)
あらすじ・解説
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.
A Times Audiobook of the Week.
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. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy's most vicious officers?
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- james walker
- 2020/08/10
A gun that has tasted blood wants more...
I chose this because it looked like the most interesting story on the Booker longlist - and I wasn't disappointed. Like Kate Grenville, the author takes inspiration from some family history to tell the incredible story of female soldiers in Ethiopia. There's some cracking lines about dealing with colonialisation, a few of my favourites were: 'Make living your first act of defiance' and 'Only soil will remember who we are. Nothing but earth is strong enough to withstand the burden of memory'. Reading is about temporarily escaping the cosy rut of your own existence and seeing the world through someone else's eyes. I knew nothing about Ethiopia in the 1930s but I do now. This is also a very topical book in terms of unheard stories and perspectives.
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- Ig
- 2020/12/07
So interesting and absorbing
I had to read it twice.It taught me so much and with so much feeling. One of the best books I have read in nearly 60 years
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- MJ
- 2020/11/19
Fascinating
There’s too much I’d like to say about this book to fit into an Audible review. This author is extraordinary. A literary work of art, The Shadow King collages Ethiopian and Italian cultures, summoning the choral language of Greek war epics but redressing them with female soldier protagonists, for the history of the many Ethiopian women who fought in battles has never been formally recorded nor written about. Not a fast-paced story, the sense of the endurance of war, of anticipation of conflict, of captivity, of a slowly increasing threat to freedom — build effectively as the plots progress. It is a challenging read for a narrator, to keep engaging the listener and embody the many voices of characters from different cultures. I did find at times I couldn’t tell who was speaking, as the accents and voices weren’t always discernible — Italian, Ethiopian, male, female — and sometimes the intonation was unnatural/distracting, but probably because of my own dialect. 😆 Ultimately a memorable ‘read’.
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- Lizzy h
- 2020/09/24
Female centred depiction of war
A strong narrative depicting the roles Ethiopian women played in the fight to overthrow Italy.
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- DRJ London
- 2021/01/18
Difficult to follow
Could not get connected with the characters, found it hard to care what happened to them.
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- Apple Smith
- 2021/01/01
Takes ages to get going, never quite settled into gear
Good audio and performance of various accents, occasionally a bit ott. The writing though, feels like an overly detailed screenplay in that it describes every visual element, and often uses good rich visual metaphor, but is very often over-egged and very hard to sustain an interest sentence to sentence; this is whether it’s an internal character monologue or a scene with some dramatic action being played out. Might’ve been helped by breaking it up into chapters each with a vaguely clear purpose... instead the sense of it being a stream of consciousness, is what’s so distracting and so confusing as a stylistic choice. Since it’s told from multiple perspectives and even locations, why not break it up into distinct sections for each, so the reader has a bit more breathing space and sense of dramatic tension/release/flow? The sections labelled “Chorus” and similar, feel like an attempt to do something like that but end up adding to the confusion. I was glad I stuck with it because by the middle of Book Three it’s really quite a rewarding read. Also enjoyed the linking of Aida, nice touch.
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- Taralouise
- 2020/12/17
A story that needs to be heard by more people
No doubt most people are aware of the Holocaust of Jews under the Nazis but probably few people outside Ethiopia are aware of the genocide of Ethiopian people by the Italian military, following their invasion of the country in 1935. Even fewer people are probably aware of the involvement of women in the fighting against the Italians during those years. This book brilliantly brings this story to the light; it is beautifully read by Robin Miles and Maaza Mengiste's prose is majesterial, evoking the fear, excitement, anger and eventual triumph of the brave people who fought those invaders. It is also the story of a young woman, abused not just by the Italians but by the misogynies of her patriarchal cultures, And the book does not take a Manichean perspective, by portraying all Ethiopians as brave and honourable and all Italians as cowardly and fascistic. A wonderful book that should have won the booker prize and should be read by everyone who thinks colonialism was an great project.
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- Stephen
- 2020/12/04
Forgotten war
I was entertained and educated. I thought the epilogue detracted from the rest of the book.
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- Becca
- 2020/11/27
A story of historical female courage
Similar to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half Of A Yellow Sun," I started reading "The Shadow King" completely naive of what it would be about. The front cover grabbed my attention with its bright colours and enigmatic title (something you only really understand the meaning of 3 quarters the way through the book/audiobook. Though it tells the story through multiple perspectives, it is clear that Hirut is our main character. Her growth as a woman - and a soldier - was visceral at times, but a joy to read. "The Shadow King" perfectly demonstrates the social divides between men and women, with men using physical strength and dominance over women during war, and women fighting back from that. I refuse to give any spoilers, but while Robin Miles is an okay narrator, the book is great.
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- P Irving
- 2020/09/11
It is an achievement....
to listen this book to the end. I selected this novel as it was about a time in our recent history that is not often spoken of or taught in England and the book has been is on the Man Booker Shortlist and I always try to read as many of the books nominated as possible. My overwhelming feeling during reading was it may not be the best book to convert to audio and if so then needed to be edited more closely. The story doesn’t get going until the second third but until you get to that stage there is a mishmash of characters, a Chorus, real and fictional figures to try and juggle on top of a vocabulary that is unfamiliar. A PDF annexe to accompany the book as other authors have provided would have helped keep track of it all. I hate leaving a negative review of what is clearly a very important and personal story which should be told, but it certainly made the listener/ reader work to get there. That said given the scope and scale it may just was the Booker Prize judges are looking for.