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The Kitchen God's Wife
- Narrated by: Gwendoline Yeo
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- ZAHID BHATTI
- 30-05-20
Exceptional, tearful and moving
You might need to give this a few chapters to see how good it really is.
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-10-16
Narration unintentionally funny
The story is great and I always enjoy it. The narration is generally quite good. Some of the characters have a distinct California accent. In 1930's China : D. Also, Aunt Du speaks in a way that sounds -just- like monks doing Gregorian chants. Made me smile every time I heard it!
7 people found this helpful
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- Jo A Beck
- 15-03-17
Fabulous story, questionable narration
How did the narrator detract from the book?
I love Amy Tang's wonderful books, and while we all create characters "voices" in our heads, I have learned to give audio book narrators a chance to inhabit the characters. Sadly, this was not possible with Gwendoline Yeo's strange reading. A pivotal character, Auntie Du, was described as having a "sing-song" voice. The narrator chose to do a strange atonal reading that was so annoying and distracting that it rendered important plot points unintelligible. It was aptly described by another reviewer as "Gregorian chants". The modern drawling California "Valley" accents felt jarring and out of place for young Chinese women in the 1930s.
5 people found this helpful
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- Jenny Alonzo
- 13-06-17
ending gets me every time...
this is a great story and I get tears in my eyes everytime I reach the end.
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- GrandmaNurseHeather
- 08-06-17
Holds your attention through out
A great story. Riveting. Narrator does well except for "Peanut" in her "Valley Girl" style voice and the other snobbish characters, and the elderly aunt in the sing song style voice. Those voices were annoying and distracting.
6 people found this helpful
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- FinnessaWilliams
- 03-06-17
I read this years ago
I read this years ago and listened to this on my commute. I loved it and can't wait to listen to this again. well done.
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- Crowd of Nevadans
- 02-03-17
Narrator valley girl???
During part of the story the narrator turned a 1920s young Chinese girl into a valley girl, I found it very lame
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- Alice
- 26-08-16
Brilliant.
Such a breathtaking tale of a strong, incredible woman. Gwendoline Yeo brings the story to life by using unique voices and accents for each character. Brilliant story and audio performance! Definitely will read this again.
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- Lu
- 21-10-17
amazing
I loved this book the first time I read it and now once again listening to the beautiful word come to life.
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- Enigma
- 21-08-17
my favorite author
great reader, a wonderful story. just reminds me of why I love Amy tan. highly recommend
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- Rhianna
- 18-08-17
modern-day classic
this has to be my favorite stories of all time. Amy Tan is an absolute artist with words. I will never get tired of listening to the story over and. I have even read in probably hundreds of times
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