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BLACK DOVE, WHITE RAVEN

by | Read by Lauren Saunders, Maanuv Thiara

Young Adult Ages 12+ • 11 hrs. • Unabridged • © 2015

In alternating journal entries and letters, 16-year-old adopted siblings Emilia and Teo describe Ethiopia’s path to war with Italy in the 1930s and how it involved them in pilot training. Narrators Lauren Saunders and Maanuv Thiara detail the close friendship of Emilia and Teo in a story that also depicts Ethiopian race relations at that time. Listeners will need to give this high-flying adventure a long runway. Saunders’s voices for Em, Teo, and their mothers are too similar, and Thiara’s earnest reading draws the listener out of Wein’s rich descriptions of Ethiopian life. To their credit, both manage the Amharic vocabulary adroitly. In the chaos of war, both narrators use more subdued voicings, which better match the author’s dynamic shifts. C.A. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2015]

Trade Ed. • Bolinda Audio • 2015

CD ISBN 9781486227938 $19.99 • Nine CDs

MP3-CD ISBN 9781486227945 $14.99 • One MP3-CDs

DD ISBN multiple sources

 

Library Ed. • Bolinda Audio • 2015

CD ISBN 9781486227952 $49.97 • Nine CDs

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