Amy Belding Brown has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is Flight of the Sparrow.
Flight of the Sparrow
Summary
She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way… Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors' open and straightforward way of life - a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her. Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the listener to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance.
©2014 Amy Belding Brown (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
L'envol du moineau
Summary
D'après des faits réels, le superbe portrait d'une femme découvrant la liberté au milieu des Indiens. Colonie de la baie du Massachusetts, 1672. Mary Rowlandson vit dans une communauté de puritains venus d'Angleterre. Bonne mère, bonne épouse, elle souffre néanmoins de la rigidité morale étouffante qui règne parmi les siens. Si elle essaie d'accomplir tous ses devoirs, elle se sent de plus en plus comme un oiseau en cage. Celle-ci va être ouverte de façon violente lorsque des Indiens attaquent son village et la font prisonnière. Mary doit alors épouser le quotidien souvent terrible de cette tribu en fuite, traquée par l'armée. Contre toute attente, c'est au milieu de ces "sauvages" qu'elle va trouver une liberté qu'elle n'aurait jamais imaginée. Les mœurs qu'elle y découvre, que ce soit le rôle des femmes, l'éducation des enfants, la communion avec la nature, lui font remettre en question tous ses repères. Et, pour la première fois, elle va enfin pouvoir se demander qui elle est et ce qu'elle veut vraiment. Cette renaissance pourra-t-elle s'accoutumer d'un retour "à la normale", dans une société blanche dont l'hypocrisie lui est désormais insupportable ? Cette magnifique épopée romanesque, inspirée de la véritable histoire de Mary Rowlandson, est à la fois un portrait de femme bouleversant et un vibrant hommage à une culture bouillonnante de vie, que la "civilisation" s'est efforcée d'anéantir.
©2019 Le Cherche Midi. Traduit de l'anglais par Cindy Colin Kapen (P)2019 Audible Studios
Mr. Emerson's Wife
Summary
In this novel about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wife, Lidian, Amy Belding Brown examines the emotional landscape of love and marriage. Living in the shadow of one of the most famous men of her time, Lidian becomes deeply disappointed by marriage, but consigned to public silence by social conventions and concern for her family’s reputation. Drawn to the erotic energy and intellect of close family friend Henry David Thoreau, she struggles to negotiate the confusing territory between love and friendship while maintaining her moral authority and inner strength. In the course of the book, she deals with overwhelming social demands, faces devastating personal loss, and discovers the deepest meaning of love. Lidian eventually encounters the truth of her own character and learns that even our faults can lead us to independence.
©2005 Amy Belding Brown (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing