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Libretto for the Desert audiobook

  • By: Sona Van
  • Narrator: Beata Pozniak
  • Category: General, History, Middle East
  • Length: 2 hours 18 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
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Libretto for the Desert Audiobook Summary

In A Libretto for the Desert, Sona Van’s subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Van’s parents and grandparents were driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems reflect a personal connection to this history as well as the universality of loss, persecution, and intolerance.

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Libretto for the Desert Audiobook Narrator

Beata Pozniak is the narrator of Libretto for the Desert audiobook that was written by Sona Van

Beata Pozniak, known for playing Marina Oswald in Oscar nominated JFK, has narrated bestsellers The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great and Illuminae, which received an Audie Award. The Tsar of Love and Techno was selected in the Top 5 Best Audiobooks of the Year by the Washington Post. She received an Earphones Award for narrating Nobel Prize-winning Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and another Earphones Award for The Light in Hidden Places, which followed a Voice Arts Award Nomination for Libretto for the Desert: Poetry Dedicated for the Victims of Genocide and War

About the Author(s) of Libretto for the Desert

Sona Van is the author of Libretto for the Desert

Libretto for the Desert Full Details

Narrator Beata Pozniak
Length 2 hours 18 minutes
Author Sona Van
Category
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Release date April 26, 2024
ISBN 9781982665449

Subjects

The publisher of the Libretto for the Desert is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is General, History, Middle East

Additional info

The publisher of the Libretto for the Desert is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Skyboat Media. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781982665449.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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