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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- ナレーター: Joe Morton
- 再生時間: 14 時間 14 分
- カテゴリー: 文学・フィクション, アフリカ系アメリカ人
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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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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- 著者: Tayari Jones
- ナレーター: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- 再生時間: 8 時間 59 分
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.
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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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Homegoing
- A Novel
- 著者: Yaa Gyasi
- ナレーター: Dominic Hoffman
- 再生時間: 13 時間 11 分
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Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the castle's women's dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery.
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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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Normal People
- A Novel
- 著者: Sally Rooney
- ナレーター: Aoife McMahon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 34 分
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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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Becoming
- 著者: Michelle Obama
- ナレーター: Michelle Obama
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
- 完全版
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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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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- 著者: Tayari Jones
- ナレーター: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- 再生時間: 8 時間 59 分
- 完全版
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.
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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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Homegoing
- A Novel
- 著者: Yaa Gyasi
- ナレーター: Dominic Hoffman
- 再生時間: 13 時間 11 分
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Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the castle's women's dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery.
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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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Normal People
- A Novel
- 著者: Sally Rooney
- ナレーター: Aoife McMahon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 34 分
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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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"Joe Morton doesn't just give a stellar performance of Coates's audiobook. He embodies its characters completely, making the listening experience cinematic.... Coates's first novel is steeped in magical realism, yet the parallels to America's past are clear, making this a not-to-miss listening experience. Morton's narration is equally powerful - among the year's best." (AudioFile Magazine)
"Coates balances the horrors of slavery against the fantastical. He extends the idea of the gifts of the disenfranchised to include a kind of superpower. But The Water Dancer is very much its own book, and its gestures toward otherworldliness remain grounded. In the end, it is a novel interested in the psychological effects of slavery, a grief that Coates is especially adept at parsing.... In Coates’s world, an embrace can be a revelation, rare and astonishing." (Esi Edugyan, The New York Times Book Review)
"The most surprising thing about The Water Dancer may be its unambiguous narrative ambition. This isn’t a typical first novel.... The Water Dancer is a jeroboam of a book, a crowd-pleasing exercise in breakneck and often occult storytelling that tonally resembles the work of Stephen King as much as it does the work of Toni Morrison, Colson Whitehead and the touchstone African-American science-fiction writer Octavia Butler.... It is flecked with forms of wonder-working that push at the boundaries of what we still seem to be calling magical realism." (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
"Coates isn’t dropping supernatural garnish onto The Water Dancer any more than Toni Morrison sends a ghost whooshing through Beloved for cheap thrills. Instead, Coates’s fantastical elements are deeply integral to his novel, a way of representing something larger and more profound than the confines of realism could contain." (The Washington Post)
あらすじ・解説
Number one New York Times best seller
Oprah’s Book Club Pick
From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.
“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.” (San Francisco Chronicle)
In development as a major motion picture
Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films
Nominated for the NAACP Image Award
Named One of Paste’s Best Novels of the Decade
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by:
- Time
- The Washington Post
- Chicago Tribune
- Vanity Fair
- Esquire
- Good Housekeeping
- Paste
- Town & Country
- The New York Public Library
- The Dallas Morning News
- Kirkus Reviews
- Library Journal
“Nearly every paragraph is laced through with dense, gorgeously evocative descriptions of a vanished world and steeped in its own vivid vocabulary.” (Entertainment Weekly)
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.
So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.
This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children - the violent and capricious separation of families - and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.
Praise for The Water Dancer
"Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations - and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer...is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance.... What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal.... Timeless and instantly canon-worthy." (Rolling Stone)
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- Carmen Lang
- 2020/01/26
UGH! I wanted SO much to like this book.
Okay let me start off by saying it's no small feat to publish a historical novel AND get it in O's book club. I'm proud of this young man as an author but I must be honest. That being said. I can't with this book ...I grew up in Virginia and am very familiar with antebellum period books...as they are one of my fav's to read. I found this book underdeveloped. First the use of the the term "colored" for that time period was incorrect and it grated on my nerves the entire time I listened. Also at one point "Harriet" states that she only sticks to the areas she knows " southern shores of MD" it's a well known fact that Harriet traveled down even to the deep south to collect those in bondage. And what's up with the meeting convention in the woods where there are people promoting free-love and communism at this time period??!! Then they get a letter delivered to them in the middle of the woods. Sorry there were historical mistakes in this book.
Also to me the characters were hard to follow, the wording was flowery and really lead nowhere. I would have like to have seen a lot more cohesion of the story line. I found myself saying wth this book is all over the place. Sorry I'll be returning this one. I got to chapter 25 "to give it a chance' I just can't.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019/11/13
Pay attention
I enjoyed this novel, but there are so many small details and it flips between scenes so much that if you don’t pay attention fully to it, you will miss a lot of details. Overall it was an intriguing story.
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- Cammie
- 2019/09/28
We Must Always Remember
This is SO not what I was expecting. I was expecting to be broken by the story of slavery, the brutality and terror of it. Instead, I heard the story of beautiful, complex and fully fleshed out human beings. Exploring life and love and magic and memory and power and blessings and war. So well written and wonderfully narrated.
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- Annie
- 2019/11/28
A bit long for the story to be told
I was somewhat disappointed in this book because I really was not sure what the story was trying to tell. (Call me not well informed if you wish). I do understand that the jest of the story was about slavery and the horrors of that time, but I felt it could have been told in a much more interesting way. The narration was fine but the story itself was lacking.
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- Jean
- 2019/11/28
Impressive
This is my first book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is a fiction with an interesting premise “What if memory had the power to transport enslaved people to freedom?” The protagonist is Hiram Walker, who can remember everything with photographic recall except his mother.
This is a beautifully written book about slavery. I had a bit of a problem with the magical realism. It took me a awhile to adjust. Otherwise, this is a fantastic book that uses language in an almost magical way. The author has a powerful imagination and is an exceptionally gifted writer.
The book is fourteen hours and fourteen minutes. Joe Morton does a good job narrating the book. Morton is an actor and audiobook narrator.
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- Pamela J
- 2019/09/25
Poetry in book form
This very powerful book reads like poetry! It's beautifully written and paints the scene and the emotions that are carried in them, perfectly. The storyteller, Hiram, has a life that is complex, emotional, and complicated in a way I imagine the life of someone who is one of "the tasked" (he seldom uses the word slave) must feel. But rather than just leave it as the story of brutal history, the author adds this element of magic, similar to how Toni Morrison did that makes it difficult to know when it's coming, that just adds more depth, fear, and intrigue to the story. I can't imagine anyone other than the amazing Joe Morton narrating this story so well. I love when authors (who aren't actors) are smart enough to get true professionals to deliver their stories and Morton doesn't let you down. I don't think everyone will love this book as much as I did, it takes some dedication to plow through it, but if you're willing to surrender to the story and live through the sometimes complicated parts of it, you'll enjoy the gifts of a truly talented writer.
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- Patrick Day
- 2019/10/21
Author Didn't Know When to Quit
This could have been a very good 9- or 10 hour audiobook, but the author seemed to fall in love with his own words, and the second half of the book became repetetive, tedious
and boring. I loved the first half, but later, couldn't waitfor it to end.
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- Kimberley
- 2019/10/08
Too Eloquent for Me
I think of myself as a fairly educated person and I really struggled to comprehend what was being said in this book. The words and phrasing was just "above me" and I didn't really get into the story at all. The narrator was AMAZING and I'll look for more of his work.
Sorry Oprah, I really wanted to love this one!
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- Christina
- 2019/09/29
Powerful in surprising ways!
Of the 30 books I’ve read so far this year, this is my absolute favorite!!!! The method of storytelling lures you in and quickly gets you committed to seeing the resolution of the story/stories represented. I also love the fact that the entire story shared the impact of a strong part of our cultural history to the history of our country. Aaaand I love the imperfections of each character and how each character grows in their own journey.
“To forgive is irrelevant. To forget is death.”
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- Darwin8u
- 2020/02/25
All must name a master to serve. All must choose.
“All must name a master to serve. All must choose.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer
I loved how Coates brought in Magical Realism and seemed to blend a bit of Toni Morrison (high) with Colson Whitehead (low). It is funky to read two novels both playing around with the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad that seem both harmonious with each other and completely different. I loved Coates themes, especially the power of remembering and how we are all "tasked" to something. Beautiful. Magical. There were something that seemed to work REALLY well and other things that almost worked. This isn't Toni Morrison, but as Coates' first novel I enjoyed it.