Die Weiße Rose

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Die Weiße Rose

by B. Traven

DE·~8 hours·17 chapters

Chapters

17 total

DIE WEISSE ROSE

0:27

1

1:13:44

2

50:43

3

49:20

4

52:49

5

13:44

6

13:09

7

22:06

8

51:48

9

25:38
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Description

A haunting ranch‑song about a white rose drifts over a sun‑baked Mexican landscape, setting a tone of beauty tangled with survival. In the shadows of the Barranca, locals cling to tradition while a foreign tide rolls in, carried on the promise of black gold. The narrative opens with the Condor Oil Company, a newcomer driven by an insatiable appetite to claim every patch of earth that might hold oil, treating the terrain as a battlefield where the toughest fight is deemed the most humane.

Through meticulous detail, the story sketches the company’s ruthless logic: land is power, and speculation can yield fortunes without a single barrel ever being pumped. Mexican workers, Spanish intermediaries, and even German agents become the unseen hands that carve the company's expanding map, while its American directors stay insulated from the grime. As the race for resources intensifies, the listener senses a growing moral tension between the alluring promise of progress and the quiet, inevitable cost to the people and land caught in its wake.

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Language

de

Duration

~8 hours (467K characters)

Release date

Oct 8, 2025

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

B. Traven

B. Traven

1882–1969

Best known as the fiercely private author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, this elusive novelist turned stories of adventure in Mexico into sharp critiques of injustice, greed, and exploitation. The mystery around his identity only deepened the pull of work that still feels vivid and unsparing.

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