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Who Is Martha?

De: Marjana Gaponenko
Narrado por: Allan Robertson
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Sinopse

In this rollicking novel, 96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha - the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons - died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn't have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days.

This gloriously written tale, in which Levadski feels "his heart pounding at the portals of his brain", mixes piquant wit with lofty musings about life, friendship, aging, and death.

©2014 Marjana Gaponenko (P)2015 ListenUp Production, LLC

Resumo da Crítica

"A sweet, sad, sunny meditation on birds and music and the gentle approach of death." (John Rockwell, former New York Times arts critic and editor and founding director of Lincoln Center Festival)

"A book like a fantastic party, as unshakeable as a child's faith... Astonishes to the very end." ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
"With layers of inventive language, vividly drawn characters, history, music, birds, love, loneliness, and wisdom, this is a brilliant book, rich and satisfying as a Viennese torte." (Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology)

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