The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb audiobook

The Beauty of Humanity Movement: A Novel

By Camilla Gibb
Read by Jennifer Ikeda

Recorded Books, Inc. 9781594202803

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781664507661

  • ISBN: 9781664615496

  • ISBN: 9781664781191

Runtime: 8.37 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Selected for the April 2011 Indie Next List

Camilla Gibb reached international best-seller status with novels that garner immense critical acclaim for their stunning insights into the human condition. In The Beauty of Humanity Movement, three people's lives in modern Vietnam turn on the whims of fate-even as each strives for a finer reality. Freshly returned from the United States, Maggie is an art curator in search of her father. Old Man Hung, a soup seller, may hold the secret that could change Maggie's destiny. And Tu' is a tour guide who will have a stunning effect on them both.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Gibb’s fictional portrait of contemporary Vietnam should be essential reading for anyone mulling a visit to Hanoi, whose profusion of motorbike traffic and culinary aromas issues from these pages with graphic verisimilitude. Gibb uses the city’s street food and thriving art scene to reflect both continuity and change.” —New York Times Book Review
“Camilla Gibb drapes her story over good strong bones—characters (including the grandson of a poet friend of Hung’s) that span several generations, the nobility of the artists in contrast to the war and its political players. But the true beauty of the novel radiates from the details—the smell of the soup, the feeling of the early-morning streets, the sense of community in poverty, and the community woven by memories.” —Los Angeles Times
“Gibb has made a loving, wise, tender, dreamy, and insightful work of fiction about a loosely linked group of ordinary citizens trying to make the most in contemporary Hanoi.” —NPR
“Gibb ties the strands of the narrative together...with care, with gentleness, and with reality. She employs all the senses to create a vivid aesthetic tapestry. Seeing such hope in the face of such adversity is uplifting.” —Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“Jennifer Ikeda is a good choice for a novel that needs an Asian sensibility to subtly dramatize the action...[She] manages history, description, and a fair amount of cultural explanation deftly, keeping the listener’s interest.” —AudioFile
“Through the very different perspectives of these three, Gibb fluidly takes the reader from the bitter years of war to the Hanoi that has emerged in the reform era, which, despite all its modernization, is still a mystery to many of us.” —Booklist
“Well written and engaging, with characters that represent the participants and consequences of a country in the middle of great change, this work is recommended where [Amy] Tan and similar authors are appreciated.” —Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Camilla Gibb

Author Bio: Camilla Gibb

Camilla Gibb was born in London and grew up in Toronto. She has a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford, for which she conducted fieldwork in Ethiopia. Her novels, Mouthing the Words, winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000, and The Petty Details of So-and-So’s Life have been published in eighteen countries and translated into fourteen languages, receiving rave reviews all around the world. She is one of twenty-one writers on the Orange Futures List—a list of young writers to watch, compiled by the jury of the prestigious Orange Prize. She serves as vice president of PEN Canada and is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto.

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Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 8.37
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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