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Tunnel 29

The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

by Helena Merriman ...

Narrated by Helena Merriman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 33 min

A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months ... Read more

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A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months
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Analectas

by Confucio ...

Narrated by José Peña Coto ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

“Al ver a una persona virtuosa piensa en igualarla; al ver a una persona no virtuosa reflexiona sobre ti mismo.” Confucio.SABIDURIA ORIENTAL MILENARIA.Las Analectas, "Lún Yǔ" (论语), son una colección de enseñanzas, dichos y pensamientos del filósofo chino Confucio (551-479 a.C.) y sus discípulos. Esta obra, compilada por sus seguidores después de su muerte, es una de las fuentes más importantes de ... Read more

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“Al ver a una persona virtuosa piensa en igualarla; al ver a una persona no virtuosa reflexiona sobre ti mismo.” Confucio.SABIDURIA ORIENTAL MILENARIA.Las Analectas, "Lún Yǔ" (论语), son una colección de enseñanzas, dichos y pensamientos del filósofo chino Confucio (551-479 a.C.) y sus discípulos. Esta obra, compilada por sus seguidores después de su muerte, es una de las fuentes más importantes de
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom

China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War

by Stephen R. Platt ...

Narrated by Angela Lin ...

Unabridged

17 hours 33 min

Winner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in HistoryA gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early ... Read more

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Winner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in HistoryA gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China.The story begins in the early
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The Saigon Guns

A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972

by John Thomas Hoffman ...

Narrated by Shawn Compton ...

Unabridged

15 hours 2 min

Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to strengthen their negotiating position at the Paris peace talks. In March of 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South with five armored divisions, massive ... Read more

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Few Americans know the facts about the final year of US combat operations in South Vietnam. As political will to sustain the fight shrank and the US withdrew most of their ground forces, the Soviets and North Vietnamese sought battlefield success to strengthen their negotiating position at the Paris peace talks. In March of 1972, North Vietnam invaded the South with five armored divisions, massive
... Read more
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Prisoners of Class

A Historical Memoir of the Khmer Rouge Revolution

by Samoeun Chan ...

Narrated by ElevenLabs George ...

Unabridged

19 hours 14 min

The remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, now available in English translation for the first time“...among the earliest, most detailed, and most vividly rendered accounts of the Khmer Rouge revolution…The book, available to English readers for the first time in Matthew Madden’s sparkling translation, is a priceless new addition to the testimonial literature on the Khmer Rouge, ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The remarkable early account of life in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, now available in English translation for the first time“...among the earliest, most detailed, and most vividly rendered accounts of the Khmer Rouge revolution…The book, available to English readers for the first time in Matthew Madden’s sparkling translation, is a priceless new addition to the testimonial literature on the Khmer Rouge,
... Read more
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歡樂三國志【英雄重聚版有聲書（上）（下）】

by 侯文詠, 蔡康永 ...

Series series 歡樂三國志
Unabridged

41 hours 51 min

《三國演義》誰都可以出，但能「說」得這麼好聽，只有侯文詠與蔡康永！無數粉絲敲碗許願……＼有聲書終於上市！／＼走到哪聽到哪！／HowHow**：「我人生幾乎有一半以上的時間在聽《歡樂三國志》。」**博恩：「我小時候睡覺前都要聽《歡樂三國志》。」w如果呂布生在現代，絕對會成為「話題王子」？！w對現代人來說，和曹操這種愛才的老闆工作，肯定非常愉快！w諸葛亮若像我們一樣，必須在兩、三天內決定是否接下一份工作，他可能無法找到劉備這個對的老闆……那是一個遠比我們所處更動盪、更匱乏的時代。儘管如此，《三國演義》裡的角色擁有的夢想、努力的精神，卻遠比我們這個時代大部分人都還要精采。我們一再被某些角色... ... Read more

$25.99 USD

《三國演義》誰都可以出，但能「說」得這麼好聽，只有侯文詠與蔡康永！無數粉絲敲碗許願……＼有聲書終於上市！／＼走到哪聽到哪！／HowHow**：「我人生幾乎有一半以上的時間在聽《歡樂三國志》。」**博恩：「我小時候睡覺前都要聽《歡樂三國志》。」w如果呂布生在現代，絕對會成為「話題王子」？！w對現代人來說，和曹操這種愛才的老闆工作，肯定非常愉快！w諸葛亮若像我們一樣，必須在兩、三天內決定是否接下一份工作，他可能無法找到劉備這個對的老闆……那是一個遠比我們所處更動盪、更匱乏的時代。儘管如此，《三國演義》裡的角色擁有的夢想、努力的精神，卻遠比我們這個時代大部分人都還要精采。我們一再被某些角色...
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Tombstone

The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962

by Yang Jisheng ...

Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

22 hours 52 min

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great FamineAn estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster."As a
... Read more
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Empire of Ashes

Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War

by James M. Scott ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

16 hours 59 min

At 9:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American bomber pierced the skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The single bomb it dropped unleashed an atomic hurricane that toppled homes, vaporized birds in flight, and carbonized humans. Three days later, a second bomb flattened the port city of Nagasaki. In the span of a mere seventy-five hours, the United States―a nation once morally opposed to the ... Read more

$25.99 USD

At 9:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American bomber pierced the skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The single bomb it dropped unleashed an atomic hurricane that toppled homes, vaporized birds in flight, and carbonized humans. Three days later, a second bomb flattened the port city of Nagasaki. In the span of a mere seventy-five hours, the United States―a nation once morally opposed to the
... Read more
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The Zhivago Affair

The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

by Peter Finn, Petra Couvée ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in ... Read more

$24.99 USD

In May of 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to the Russian countryside to visit the country’s most beloved poet, Boris Pasternak. He left concealing the original manuscript of Pasternak’s much anticipated first novel, entrusted to him with these words from the author: “This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.”Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in
... Read more
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Gulag

A History

by Anne Applebaum ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

27 hours 42 min

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution,
... Read more
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Red Scare

Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America

by Clay Risen ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

Unabridged

15 hours 30 min

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” .. ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and Kirkus ReviewsFrom an award-winning historian and New York Times reporter comes the timely story about McCarthyism that both “lays out the many mechanisms of repression that made the Red Scare possible…[and] describes how something that once seemed so terrifying and interminable did, in fact, come to an end” ..
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Flowers of Fire

The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

by Hawon Jung ...

Narrated by Kathleen Li ...

Unabridged

10 hours 53 min

Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender.Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women are no delicate flowers—they are trailblazing flames. ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender.Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women are no delicate flowers—they are trailblazing flames.
... Read more
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Chernobyl

Details of the Worst Nuclear Disaster in History

by Kelly Mass ...

Narrated by Kelly Fraser ...

Unabridged

1 hour 14 min

On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed one of the gravest technological disasters in human history: the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Occurring at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's No. 4 reactor in Pripyat, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the event not only claimed lives but also left a legacy of environmental and human suffering that persists to this day. This calamity ... Read more

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On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed one of the gravest technological disasters in human history: the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Occurring at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's No. 4 reactor in Pripyat, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the event not only claimed lives but also left a legacy of environmental and human suffering that persists to this day. This calamity
... Read more
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Midnight in Chernobyl

The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

13 hours 55 min

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov... ... Read more

$29.99 USD

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov...
... Read more
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The Jakarta Method

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins ...

Narrated by Tim Paige ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the ... Read more

$27.99 USD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the
... Read more
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In Order to Live

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

by Yeonmi Park ...

Narrated by Eji Kim ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions ... Read more

$20.00 USD

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions
... Read more
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Red Notice

A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder ...

Narrated by Adam Grupper ...

Unabridged

14 hours 7 min

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds.
... Read more
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Secondhand Time

The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich ...

Narrated by Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly Farr, Kirby Heyborne, Hillary Huber, Rebecca Lowman, Jorjeana Marie, Coleen Marlo, Kathleen McInerney, Fred Sanders ...

Unabridged

22 hours 58 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNEROne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus ... Read more

$30.00 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNEROne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus
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Our Oriental Heritage

by Will Durant ...

Narrated by Robin Field ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Story of Civilization
Unabridged

50 hours 17 min

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years
... Read more
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The Rape of Nanking

The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

by Iris Chang ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the ... Read more

$16.99 USD

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the
... Read more
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The Rising Sun

The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945

by John Toland ...

Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

Unabridged

41 hours 9 min

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled, ... Read more

$29.99 USD

This Pulitzer Prize–winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, “a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened—muddled,
... Read more
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The Search for Modern China

by Jonathan D. Spence ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

36 hours 49 min

The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth.With his command of character and event––the product of thirty years of research and reflection in the field––Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over ... Read more

$29.99 USD

The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth.With his command of character and event––the product of thirty years of research and reflection in the field––Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over
... Read more
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Stalin, Volume II

Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

by Stephen Kotkin ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

49 hours 44 min

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of ... Read more

$39.99 USD

Pulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin continues his definitive biography of Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror through to the coming of the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history. When we left Stalin at the end of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, it was 1928, and he had finally climbed the mountaintop and achieved dictatorial power of
... Read more
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Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang ...

Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

Unabridged

22 hours 52 min

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an ... Read more

$34.99 USD

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an
... Read more

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