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    The Communist's Daughter
    The Communist's Daughter
    The Communist's Daughter
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Communist's Daughter

    Written by Dennis Bock

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith

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    About this audiobook

    The Communist's Daughter is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he fulfills his idealism, yet before long politics destroy his romance and drive him to seek refuge in China. Here, in service to a man eventually known as Mao Zedong, Bethune begins this account of his life and his cherished beliefs for the only person who still makes a future seem possible: the daughter he has never seen.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 22, 2014
    ISBN9781490626895
    The Communist's Daughter
    Author

    Dennis Bock

    DENNIS BOCK’s book of stories, Olympia, won the CAA Jubilee Award, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Betty Trask Award. His novels include The Communist’s Daughter and The Ash Garden, a #1 bestseller, a winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Kiriyama Prize and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. His most recent novel, Going Home Again, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Dennis Bock lives in Toronto.  

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    • 4/5
      I really wanted to like this book because I'm a China buff and I've been interested in Norman Bethune since a sinophile history teacher of mine in high school told me stories about him. But even though the wooden, pompous, puffed up manner of Bock's literary Bethune may have been absolutely true to life (I don't know), I found the book just didn't have the dramatic tension that I'd hoped for. I totally appreciated the moral ambivalence of the story though -- trying to come to terms with what it means on a personal level to commit moral treachery against individuals (stealing, abandonment) for the greater good.