THE SANDS OF TIME | Sidney Sheldon, 1988 | FULL English audiobook | 2-subtitles
00:00:00 -- PROLOGUE
00:00:05 -- Chapter one
00:18:24 -- Chapter two
00:31:42 -- Chapter three
00:50:37 -- Chapter four
01:15:20 -- Chapter five
01:34:39 -- Chapter six
02:05:06 -- Chapter seven
02:16:53 -- Chapter eight
02:55:36 -- Chapter nine
03:18:26 -- Chapter ten
03:26:01 -- Chapter eleven
04:04:14 -- Chapter twelve
04:21:18 -- Chapter thirteen
04:27:10 -- Chapter fourteen
04:45:29 -- Chapter fifteen
05:07:39 -- Chapter sixteen
05:29:49 -- Chapter seventeen
05:48:20 -- Chapter eighteen
05:56:46 -- Chapter nineteen
06:10:04 -- Chapter twenty
06:20:10 -- Chapter twenty one
06:35:52 -- Chapter twenty two
06:43:45 -- Chapter twenty three
06:50:58 -- Chapter twenty four
07:07:09 -- Chapter twenty five
07:11:38 -- Chapter twenty six
07:37:36 -- Chapter twenty seven
07:48:23 -- Chapter twenty eight
07:57:41 -- Chapter twenty nine
08:07:43 -- Chapter thirty
08:34:26 -- Chapter thirty one
08:43:17 -- Chapter thirty two
08:46:58 -- Chapter thirty three
08:57:09 -- Chapter thirty four
09:23:40 -- Chapter thirty five
09:39:38 -- Chapter thirty six
10:09:19 -- Chapter thirty seven
10:14:50 -- Chapter thirty eight
10:24:55 -- Chapter thirty nine
10:29:28 -- Chapter forty
10:31:22 -- Chapter forty one
10:43:00 -- Chapter forty two
10:58:05 -- Chapter forty three
10:59:13 -- Chapter forty four
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The Sands of Time is a 1988 action novel by author Sidney Sheldon. The novel follows the adventures of four women who are forced to leave their Spanish convent for the outside world of threat, violence and passions; and two men who are pitted against each other in a fight to the death.
Plot
In Pamplona, Spain in 1976, the Basque people are fighting against the Spanish government for their rights to autonomy. ETA leader Jaime Miró, along with friends Ricardo Mellado and Felix Carpio, escape from prison, but at the expense of many civilian lives during a sabotaged bull-running exhibit that was used as a distraction from the police. Following the event, the Prime Minister assigns Colonel Ramón Acoca (head of the anti-ETA group GOE) to hunt down Jaime Miró; Acoca's wife and unborn child were killed in a Basque demonstration assisted by ETA and the Church, so when he suspects Jaime hiding in a convent, he decides to raid it by force despite the implications of it.
The Cistercian Convent of the Strict Observance just outside Ávila, where women of all backgrounds choose to live a life of solitude, worship, and fasting, is run by Reverend Mother Betina. When the GOE raid the convent and proceed to assault and rape the sisters, four sisters manage to escape; the eldest nun, Teresa, is given the task to take the convent's only valuable asset, a cross made of gold, to the nearest convent where it will be safe. The four nuns have different back stories. The latest member of the convent, Sister Lucia, is actually Lucia Carmine, the wealthy daughter of a Mafia Don who went to the convent as a means of escape after she murdered three men involved in her father's arrest, and plans to lie low for a few months before escaping to Switzerland to retrieve her father's offshore money. Sister Graciela is the daughter of a bitter woman who loathes her daughter because she is a reminder of the man who left her, as well as the fact that Graciela "stole" her beauty, and beat her daughter unconscious when she caught her having sex with her current lover; Graciela found peace with God, and voluntarily went to the convent. Sister Megan was abandoned and was never claimed for adoption and opted to join the convent instead of becoming a maid, but longs to know who her real family is. And Sister Teresa was a religious person growing up until her younger, more beautiful sister Monique stole her fiancé, and she went against God until she decided to stay in a convent when her fiancé begged for her forgiveness and said he was coming back for her.
