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The Angels Weep
- The Ballantyne Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman
- Length: 20 hrs and 18 mins
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Summary
The Angels Weep is the third best-selling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa.
At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they have carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing for the bloody rebellion which will scar the opponents for ever - and etch for them the same tragic legacy for generations to come....
The dramatic story of the Ballantynes concludes in The Leopard Hunts in Darkness.
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"Raw experience, grim realism, history and romance welded with mystery and the bewilderment of life itself." (Library Journal)
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- 16-11-21
gripping and emotional
full of history details and a gripping read definitely recommended for all even if you know nothing about the location or the era
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- James Murray
- 12-01-24
Marvelous story telling wicked stuff
Top notch, hot stuff! Excellent story line, great credible, bewildering characters, a worthwhile read and bewitching listen. A great piece of writing for anyone who likes historical fiction. Thank you and goodnight
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- Street
- 18-02-20
Another winner
Once again Wilbur Smith smashes it with a compelling story. It is part of a series but could quite easily be a stand alone book as there is a background given to each of the main characters. His descriptive style and the excellent performance by Elliot Chapman brings the whole thing to life.
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- Mo Bass
- 04-08-23
Zimbabwe weeps now
I first visited the beautiful country of Zimbabwe in 1980 the year of independence. The people of all races were optimistic, joyful and eager to rebuild their country. I visited often until five years ago when I could no longer bear to see the poverty and despair that has followed due to successive cruel and corrupt governments.
This book is a pretty fair reflection of the birth of a country and how the greed of both black and white have formed it. The white to build using their knowledge and the labour of the blacks and the blacks to reduce it at dreadful cost to their tribes.
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- CATHIRENE M PERKIN
- 26-05-21
Excellent book
The story is excellent and take me back to bygone days. It is such a Hugh pity that the narrator didn’t do his research and kept miss pronouncing African place names on the book. It’s a shame that effort is made for French words but not African words
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- Lareine
- 11-10-21
Love Wilbur Smith
I loved the book, and found it made me sad. I was born there and know that much of it is based on facts. The narration spoilt it for me as the pronunciation of many of the Afrikaans words grated! I found myself shouting out correcting many times the word ‘kopje’ which is pronounced like ‘copy’. Matopos has the stress on the second syllable, not the first, so this also irritated me since both these words are used many times throughout the book. Elliot Chapman reads with a very English accent which didn’t sound great and his attempts at the Afrikaans and native accents were poor. It does spoil an otherwise great book. I will be listening to the next book with gritted teeth!
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- bobthebuilder
- 16-01-24
Ugh!
Stuck it for 4 1/2 hours absolutely nothing happens ,life’s too short to stick it out for 20 hours
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- ray
- 31-05-22
not my genre
struggled to stay awake so stopped after 3 hours. my mistake for not checking the story before purchase - just went with the authors name.
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- Neil Griffin
- 24-06-22
old fashioned
whilst I have always liked Wilbur Smith's books, I have stopped listening to this one as I am unhappy with the racist attitude of the characters. it maybe an accurate portrayal of the time the story is set in, but made me uncomfortable listening to it. I don't know whether my change of opinion is because this is written differently to his other novels or simply times have changed
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- Linda
- 29-08-22
Out of date in more ways than one.
I grew up on wilbur smith and decided to revisit in Audible. Among the things i never noticed in my younger days were the not so casual racism. The endless fixation with physical perfection in the protagonists and the endlessly repetitive descriptions. The good blacks are the ones who devote their lives to their white masters. If you dont know that Juba is fat the first time he describes her, you certainly will by the tenth. A sign of the times indeed not that of the nineteenth century in which the majority of the story takes place, but in the racially divided decades in which it was written.
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