Audiobooks by Tara Westover

Befreit: Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss

#1 New York Times Bestseller, “Buch des Jahrzehnts' - 2010-2020 (Independent). Ausgewählt als Buch des Jahres von Amazon, The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, New York Times, Economist, New Statesman, Vogue, Irish Times, Irish Examiner und Red Magazine. Von den Bergen Idahos nach Cambridge – der unwahrscheinliche 'Bildungsweg' der Tara Westover. Tara Westover war 17 Jahre alt, als sie zum ersten Mal eine Schulklasse betrat. Die Berge Idahos waren Taras Heimat, sie lebte als Kind im Einklang mit der grandiosen Natur, mit dem Wechsel der Jahreszeiten – und mit den Gesetzen, die ihr Vater aufstellte. Taras Vater war ein fundamentalistischer Mormone, vom baldigen Ende der Welt überzeugt und voller Misstrauen gegenüber dem Staat, von dem er sich verfolgt sah. Tara und ihre Geschwister gingen nicht zur Schule, sie hatten keine Geburtsurkunden, und ein Arzt wurde selbst bei fürchterlichsten Verletzungen nicht gerufen. Nichts war dieser Welt ferner als Bildung. Und doch fand Tara die Kraft, sich auf die Aufnahmeprüfung fürs College vorzubereiten, auch wenn sie quasi bei null anfangen musste. In diesem ergreifenden und wunderbar poetischen Hörbuch erfahren wir: - welche Entbehrungen und Grausamkeiten Tara erlebt, - wie sie überhaupt erst einmal ein Bewusstsein von sich selbst entwickelt und - wie sie sich aus einer ärmlichen, archaischen und von Paranoia und Gewalt geprägten Welt befreit. „Taras Prozess der Selbstfindung ist in „Befreit“ wunderschön gezeigt. Es ist die Art von Buch, das jedem gefallen wird, egal welches Genre Sie normalerweise wählen.“ – Bill Gates. Tara Westover (* 27. September 1986) ist eine US-amerikanische Historikerin und Schriftstellerin. Sie wurde bekannt durch ihre Autobiografie „Befreit: Wie Bildung mir die Welt erschloss“ und genannt als eine der einflussreichsten Personen des Jahres 2019.

Tara Westover (Author), Ulrike Kapfer (Narrator)

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Educated: A Memoir

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times "A coming-of-age memoir reminiscent of The Glass Castle."-O: The Oprah Magazine "Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable."-USA Today "The extremity of Westover's upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing."-The New York Times Book Review Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills" bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one's closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.

Tara Westover (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator)

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Educated: The international bestselling memoir

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Educated by Tara Westover, read by Julia Whelan. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A memoir to stand alongside the classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage ... compelling and ultimately joyous' Sunday Times Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. · Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers' Awards · Recommended as a summer read by Barack Obama, Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe

Tara Westover (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator)

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