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There Was Still Love
- Narrated by: Angourie Rice
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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There Was Still Love
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Publisher's Summary
Prague, 1980: No one sees Ludek. A young boy can slip right under the heavy blanket that covers this city - the fear cannot touch him. Ludek is free. And he sees everything. The world can do what it likes. The world can go to hell for all he cares because Babi is waiting for him in the warm flat. His whole world.
Melbourne, 1980: Malá Liška's grandma holds her hand as they climb the stairs to their third floor flat. Inside, the smell of warm pipe tobacco and homemade cakes. Here, Mána and Bill have made a life for themselves and their granddaughter. A life imbued with the spirit of Prague and the loved ones left behind.
AACTA award winner, Angourie Rice brings Favel Parrett's deep emotional insight and stellar literary talent to life in this love letter to the strong women who bind families together, despite dislocation and distance. It is a tender and beautifully told story of memory, family and love. Because there is still love. No matter what.
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- jane
- 04-10-2020
Favel, děkuji x
Poetic, quiet & powerful, this beautiful story and the people I met within it travelled bone deep to live inside of me, where they are nestled and safe. Favel, děkuji. From an Australian via New Zealand via Czechoslovakia x
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- sandra duncan
- 14-08-2020
Beautiful look at life
what a great story, l love a book l learn from that promotes further research on a subject l never thought of learning about.
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- Katherine Avery
- 18-10-2021
A charming novella
I really enjoyed this story and was left wanting to know more about what happened to the characters.
The narrator gave a really good delivery that while sounding natural was a subtle and skilful, making the story come alive.
My only disappointment, and this was probably because I was enjoyed the narrative, was how the author summed up the characters lives from 1981 onwards in a few short sentences. The End...... It felt like they didn't know where/how to finish.
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- Kez
- 30-07-2020
Beyond boring
I had high expectations of this boo when first recommended for book club but those expectations quickly disappeared. Not sure if it’s the slow most boring monotone voice of the narrator or the slooooow story itself that seemed to ha e put me to sleep time and time agin as I struggled to finish. The only reason I didn’t abandon four chapters in was the fact that the book was to be discussed for the month.
I too am a child ant product of immigrant patents that initially struggled leaving their country and establishing themselves as citizens of Australia in the 60’s everyone is different I get that but I feel there should have been a lot more joy added to the pages rather than page after page of depressing stories.
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- paul g
- 10-10-2022
Bland story
This book is a very bland story of the grandchildren of twins living in two very different worlds. There are glimpses of great writing but the author chooses to not explain a lot of things which weakened the story line for me. The narrator does not do a great job of different voices so it becomes challenging to follow the story line audibly
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