Unabridged Audiobook
Such a beautiful story. It was hard to stop listening. Narrators voices made the book even more beautiful.
Well woven story, captivating
The story is sometimes confusing with the overlapping timelines. But it all comes together at the end. I very much enjoyed the narration. I enjoyed the mystery of the origin of Simonopio and that the writer did not try to explain it.
This book is gorgeous. Very reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The narrators read as though acting in a film, with wonderful emotions and spot on accents. I highly recommend it.
The narrator is 3 stars because the male one is excellent (5 star), and the female is 1 star. I'm British and struggled, even at 0.9x speed, to understand her. It's a stylish voice, chilled, and if you can understand it, maybe as an American speaker, you may love it, like at least one of the other reviewers below. I consider it far too mumbly, difficult to understand. The male voice has a fabulous Spanish tone, similar to Benicio del Toro perhaps. As for the book, the language is beautiful, expressive, and the characters built up nicely. I'm only a third of the way through, and I think I will abandon it because it's too difficult to keep up with. Basically, a load of bees are following some bloke since birth, which is pretty surreal, yet it's set in the terrible times of the Spanish flu, with people dying all over the place. I should look up the ending and then decide.
Beautiful story, loved listening to the narrators. Feel good book, can recommend
Loved this story and the beautiful relationship between brothers. A bond that survives through a lifetime. Such a poignant ending and a beautiful reminder to experience life through all your senses.
Charming, I loved it all. The two voices and twists. So ironic to compare it to today’s Covid circus!
enjoying the book very much. illucidating and yet non-technical.
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