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The Blessed Girl
- Narrated by: Zuzu Robinson
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Young, beautiful, and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse, and her Instagrammable holidays. It's a long way from the neighborhood she started out in, and it's been far from easy.
Along with making sure she always looks fabulous - because people didn't sacrifice their lives in the freedom struggle for black women to wear the same cheap T-shirts they wore during apartheid - Bontle's also hustling to get her business off the ground. And if that wasn't enough, her ex is still refusing to sign their divorce papers. It's not that she stopped loving him; he was just so stubborn about wasting his medical degree on treating the poor.
Yes, Bontle gets the blues from time to time - who doesn't? - and the shrink keeps wanting to talk about a past she's put firmly behind her, but what she doesn't think about can't hurt her, can it?
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous
- 31-08-20
Well written. Terrible narration.
The author opens up the world of blessers and blessees with all it's pros and cons in a beautifull well written witty way. Bontle's story is one that many young women can relate to and learn from. It is too bad that the narration makes it painful to listen to. The narrator has put on an assumed African accent which completely takes away the authentic South African narrative and feel of the story. In places the accent even changes and becomes more Asian, if I wasn't interested in the story I would have stopped listening after the first two lines. Also the narrator could have tried to learn the proper pronunciation of some of the South African slang words, like how she says Merss for Merc (short for Mercedes Benz) instead of Merck as South Africans say it. How mxm is a sound and not maxim. Just a little research would have gone a long way.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- sarah casey
- 29-08-20
Make sure you sample first...
I couldn’t listen to this narrative. I’m usually tenacious when I find it a struggle to get in on a book... but found this narrative too distracting and unappealing. I love South Africa and thought I would be transformed to the feel of the place but this just wasn’t happening.
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