![]() ![]() PS: Please save discovery of the narrative for your own pleasure, and avoid pre-reading the plethora of (mostly favorable) reviews about this book. Also, because the four actors in this recording give outstanding, lyrical and pitch-perfect performances. Of note, the audio version may be superior to the printed in that the listener is spared the work of guessing when voices change, and who is narrating. Though mysterious and filled with shadings of poetry, magical realism and literary allusion this book is nonetheless well grounded in the here-and-now, and straight forward in narrative. Or perhaps it is, and I am just out of the loop, confused by the lack of awards notices on a book that is so far superior to the NY Book Review, Pulitzer, Oprah and Best Seller marks plastered on less-deserving works. How is it possible that the title "A History of Love" is not shouted from the roof-tops, bill-boarded along reader's highways and passed around slyly like a rumor between friends-in-the-know. What a surprise, a divine revelation to find this treasure buried among the cast offs in Audible's last sale. ![]()
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