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Charmaine Craig
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A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood.
Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country's history. After the war the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country.
When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups and, in doing so, sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin's eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma's first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family's past, the West's ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people.
Based on the story of the author's mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.
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- By AMS on 10-22-15
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Green City in the Sun
- By: Barbara Wood
- Narrated by: Edie Tusor
- Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
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In 1917 Dr. Grace Treverton arrives in Kenya determined to bring modern medicine to the African natives. Her brother, Sir Valentine Treverton, has his own dream for the British protectorate: to establish an agricultural empire to rival any in England. The aspirations of the wealthy Trevertons collide with those of the Mathenge tribe, an African family that has lived on the land for years. Grace soon finds a deadly rival in Mama Wachera, an African medicine woman who fights to maintain native traditions against the encroaching whites.
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Beautifully written
- By nancy wanty on 12-18-23
By: Barbara Wood
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The Moor's Last Sigh
- By: Salman Rushdie
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie combines a ferociously witty family saga with a surreally imagined and sometimes blasphemous chronicle of modern India and flavors the mixture with peppery soliloquies on art, ethnicity, religious fanaticism, and the terrifying power of love. Moraes "Moor" Zogoiby, the last surviving scion of a dynasty of Cochinese spice merchants and crime lords, is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile.
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The performance is enchanting.
- By Kelly on 05-04-18
By: Salman Rushdie
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Palace of Tears
- By: Julian Leatherdale
- Narrated by: Ming-Zhu Hii
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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The dazzling story of family, passion, secrets and vengeance, woven through the hardships of both World Wars and revealing the intriguing history of the Palace, the opulent Blue Mountains hotel famed for its luxury and mysterious owner. A sweltering summer's day, January 1914: the charismatic and ruthless Adam Fox throws a lavish birthday party for his son and heir at his elegant clifftop hotel in the Blue Mountains. Everyone is invited except Angie, the girl from the cottage next door.
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Distractingly bad acting by narrator!
- By Bunny on 01-30-16
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When She Woke
- By: Hillary Jordan
- Narrated by: Heather Corrigan
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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Hannah Payne awakens to a nightmare. She is lying on a table in a bare room, covered only by a paper gown, with cameras broadcasting her every move to millions at home. She is now a convicted criminal, and her skin color has been genetically altered. Her crime, according to the State of Texas: the murder of her unborn child, whose father she refuses to name. Her color: red. The color of newly shed blood.
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A Thoughtful Dystopia
- By Amy on 01-28-13
By: Hillary Jordan
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Honor
- By: Elif Shafak
- Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Piter Marik
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London. Internationally best-selling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to become a midwife, Pembe follows her Turkish husband, Adem, to London, where they hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. In London, they face a choice: stay loyal to the old traditions or try their best to fit in.
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Complex but Compelling
- By Cariola on 04-14-13
By: Elif Shafak
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The Darling
- By: Russell Banks
- Narrated by: Mary Beth Hurt
- Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
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The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.
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Complex and compelling
- By Ellen H. Anderson on 02-05-05
By: Russell Banks
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Nocturne
- By: Diane Armstrong
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 16 hrs and 58 mins
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It is Warsaw, 1939, and Elzunia is an indulged teenager who longs for a heroic life filled with romance. But the outbreak of war shatters all her dreams. As bombs fall, she meets Adam, a taciturn airman whose fate becomes entwined with hers. In despair over the occupation, Adam joins the Polish resistance, then flies bombers for the RAF.
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Blech
- By Caroline H. on 02-20-11
By: Diane Armstrong
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The Accusation
- Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
- By: Bandi
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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The Accusation is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime. Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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Incredibly powerful
- By Margaret on 09-30-19
By: Bandi
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The Ambassador's Daughter
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Joanna Daniel
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a life with Stefan, the wounded fiancé she hardly knows anymore, she decides that being in Paris is not so bad after all. Bored and torn between duty and the desire to be free, Margot strikes up unlikely alliances: with Krysia, an accomplished musician with radical acquaintances and a secret to protect; and with Georg, the handsome, damaged naval officer who gives Margot a job.
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Book 0 in the series
- By Stevon on 12-12-17
By: Pam Jenoff
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House of Meetings
- By: Martin Amis
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. House of Meetings is about one such liaison.
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Martin Amis at the height of his powers; wonderous
- By Todd on 06-16-15
By: Martin Amis
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-15-17
Wonderfully read, fascinating story
When I see an author is reading an audiobook, I don't expect excellent reading. Writing and voice performance are two distinct skills. Happily, Ms. Craig, an actress as well as writer, is the exception -- and thus we are able to access her author's insight, actor's skill and -- most especially -- daughter's emotional response -- all in this terrific audiobook. A rare find in that respect! Terrific storytelling, both on the page and through the microphone.
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- gabriela valdez
- 09-05-22
great story
The beginning of the book was a little hard to follow. the end was very inconclusive and a little disappointed to me. I wish the writer would have had developed the other characters more. Charmaine did a great job reading the book, I loved her voice and the way she read it.
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- L
- 10-29-20
Unexpected
I have been in Thailand working with refugees from Burma for 16 years, so I was excited but apprehensive to read/listen to a book on the region that is so often gotten wrong in literature. I was pleasantly surprised to have such a great balance of real information about the long civil war there enmeshed into a family history that humanizes the cold, ’war story’. At first I was yearning for more of Khin’s voice and perspective, tired of hearing mans side of things but it does show up eventually and I was grateful for that.
Worth a listen and a dive deeper into the politics of the region after, this civil war is not from a bygone era, it is still happening today, the fighting, displacement, military regime, glad that this book may bring more light on that.
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- Erin Michelle Ross
- 04-24-18
Harrowing experience
I picked up this book because I have never read one book about Burma. I felt that the author really helps readers experience the vivid setting of the country. Loved the performance of the author, but I did take two days to listen because it was quite wordy.
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- Andrea
- 06-19-22
I appreciate a compelling story without graphic words
This is an unusual story written with unusual words in an unusual time period. The cultures and mores of this place and time are new to most who read this, surely. I found it a lyrical read with the metaphors ending just in time for the characters to be known and the plots to be run.
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- ML 1418
- 06-08-21
Stunning, heartbreaking, beautifully written and delivered by the author.
I knew very little about Burma. I learned a great deal from this book. What an achievement for Charmaine Craig this exquisitely written book is.
Another story about the eternal struggles and misery war and the failure of people to recognize their sameness while celebrating their rich cultures and differences.
You will not regret reading or listening this book.
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- D. Anderson
- 04-10-21
Charmaines Miss Burma );not about a beauty pageant
I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook! The author read it like she loved the subject and was using her favorite paints. The story illuminated a part of the world I had only known from tales from WWII.
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- kathleen o'brien
- 09-08-17
Miss Burma
Charmaine Craig should be nominated for a National Book Award. This book emerges you completely into the lives of Burmese people and their history which I never knew about. It is a wonderful story and the author narrated it perfectly.
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- M Pennetta
- 05-31-20
Powerful
A beautifully written book recounting the personal history of a family and of the country of Burma. The struggles of the family give a familiarity of all people. Yet, the details of ethnicity within one country existing on earth give a sense of, well, my ignorance to the plight and heritage of so many. I applaud the author’s honesty concerning the humility of her grandparents and mother. The saint hoods and sins alike give a full picture of their lives. I loved this raw portrait of a family and time in Burma.
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- C Sir
- 04-10-23
Really good but I couldn't finish it
Whew--I learned a lot and liked this...but in the end, it was TOOOOOO Long. With 3 hours left, I couldn't take any more suffering. I know that is terrible to say, but there is only so long you can listen to well-written and performed sorrow. I weep for the folks who went through this.
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