The Visitors
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The Visitors
Seslendiren:
Laurel Lefkow
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Seslendiren:
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Laurel Lefkow
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Sally Beauman
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Where does The Visitors rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
From a writing and reading point of view, one of the best.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Visitors?
Laurel Lefkow's narration is simply wonderful, her switch between character's, male, female and child is flawless. The whole story is memorable for its beautiful prose like writing.Which scene did you most enjoy?
Every time Lucy and Frances got together (as children). The characters complimented each other, a kind of sugar and spice!Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Basically, it was a cosy comfortable feeling, which simply left a smile on my face.Any additional comments?
The story itself, written by or read by anyone else may have left me wanting.But this is much more than the story, more a work of art.
Wonderfuly written and read.
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Fabulous story, beautifully told
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Egyptian treasure
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The story is that of 11-year old Lucy who loses her mother in a typhoid infection that leaves her on death' door. To distract her, her father, being an absent, disparaging, misanthropic Cambridge scholar, ships her off to Egypt with a nurse/governess in the year 1922.
In Egypt, Lucy meets Frances, daughter of an American egyptologist. Lucy is drawn into the circle around Carter and Lord Carnarvon...
80 years onwards, a tired Lucy is being interviewed for a tv series on Tut. She reminisces about her life and the story skips from her life then and her life now.
I've said it once and I'll say it again: this book has made me cry buckets. I wept. It is not chick-lit, nor uplifting as, say, Major Pettigrew. But it describes life as it is. In this case, a life full of losses, deaths, departures and sadness.
Lucy is eye-witness to one of the greatest archeological finds of all times, and through her (flawlessly researched) eyes I too was witnessing the now lost Egypt of a hundred years ago. She isn't one of the persons on the center stage, but she is there, one the fringes, watching and observing. It made me long to go there, to glimpse what is left.
I had my issues with the story as well: Lucy practically never speaks or comments, so I never really got a feeling of her. She remained a canvas for the other people. Somebody to be spoken to, to have adventures with, yet she herself remains strangely inexistent.
The other thing, kind of spoilery: The last hours of the book wrap up the first third of her life, adding more losses, more tragedy, and I was left to wonder how anyone could live on like that for another 60 years. It is not being mentioned what she did in this time, but it can't have been happy, or Lucy wouldn't have been the person she was at the age of ninety-something.
Even so, full five stars for making me feel as depressed and hopeless as rarely before.
A sad, sad, sad story
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Heartbreakingly beautiful!
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