Resultados para "A B" en Ficción biográfica

The Tale of Aypi by Ak Welsapar tells the haunting story of a Turkmen fishing village on the Caspian Sea facing forced displacement. As a fisherman resists this injustice, an ancient spirit returns to avenge past wrongs, intertwining myth and reality. Ak Welsapar’s The Tale of Aypi is a poignant and suspenseful novel that blends folklore with harsh realities. Set in a Turkmen fishing village under threat of losing its land, the story centers on one man’s resistance against the unjust powers attempting to take his home.

On the sunny shores of California, Julia McWilliams is poised to embrace a life of comfort and financial security, with a marriage proposal from a wealthy man to consider. But as World War II erupts in the US, her patriotic fervor compels her to abandon her secure future. Trading country clubs for covert codes, Julia joins the Office of Strategic Services, where her sharp mind aids the Allied cause in the shadowy realm of espionage.

Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family’s dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java—living with other Dutch families—had always been peaceful, but when Holland declares war on Japan and the Japanese army invades Indonesia, Rita’s family is forced to relocate to a POW camp, and Rita must help care for her little brother, Georgie.

When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization - the criminal tong - brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.

"Quando torni io non ci sarò già più." Sono le ultime parole di S. a Matteo, pronunciate al telefono in un giorno d'autunno del 1998. Sembra una comunicazione di servizio, invece è un addio. S. sta finendo di portare via le sue cose dall'appartamento di Matteo dopo la fine della loro storia d'amore. Quel giorno Matteo torna a casa, la casa in cui hanno vissuto insieme per sette anni, e scopre che S. si è tolto la vita. Mentre chiama inutilmente aiuto, capisce che sta vivendo gli istanti più dolorosi della sua intera esistenza.

Zvi Luria ha poco piú di settant'anni quando un neurologo gli diagnostica un principio di demenza senile. All'inizio la malattia lo porterà soltanto a commettere piccole distrazioni, sbagliare un nome, confondere un altro bambino per suo nipote, oppure visitare il letto di uno sconosciuto in ospedale convinto di essere al capezzale di un vecchio amico in coma. Poi però tutto diventerà più duro e passo dopo passo la sua lucidità finirà con l'essere completamente compromessa.

In The Revenge of the Foxes, Ak Welsapar crafts a moving and darkly humorous narrative set in a Moscow hospital during the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Through the lives of young patients awaiting heart surgery, Welsapar explores love, loss, and the human desire to cling to life amidst uncertainty. The contrasting characters—a poetic Turkmen, a Stalinist with a mechanical heart, and the ill-fated Mary—represent a clash between the “robotic” future and soulful resilience, embodying the struggles of a generation on the brink of change.

Precursor by Vasyl Shevchuk tells the story of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, Ukraine’s “wandering philosopher” of the 18th century. A defender of justice and freedom, Skovoroda lived an unsettled life, challenging social and religious hypocrisy in his search for truth. Shevchuk’s novel immerses listeners in the Russian Empire's oppressive atmosphere, following Skovoroda’s travels and ideological battles against corruption and hypocrisy.

Family and friends know Marty McClure as a kind, peaceful man. They aren't aware that when he was young, he plumbed the depths of despair with no assurance he'd ever surface again. Now he needs to reveal what happened in Vietnam and how, with the help of Patti, his wife Corrie Corrigan, a disabled vet, and Doc Matheson, a corpsman turned trauma surgeon, he made peace with the ghosts that have visited his dreams all these years.

Als der Arzt Nelly B. eröffnet, dass sie wegen eines Herzleidens nicht mehr fliegen darf, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Als erste Frau in Deutschland hat sie den Pilotenschein gemacht und mit ihrem Mann eine Flugschule geleitet. Sie verlässt Paul, findet eine Stelle bei BMW, wo sie Motorräder verkauft und trifft die viel jüngere Irma, in die sie sich rettungslos verliebt. Aris Fioretos erzählt die Geschichte einer emanzipierten Frau und einer großen, tragischen Liebe im Berlin der wilden zwanziger Jahre.

This is a biographical treatment of the life of John Croft (1807-1883) who was born in England, but spent 16 years (1843-1859) in Sydney, Australia, becoming one of Australia's wealthiest men. It describes Australia's cultural, social, and commercial development in the mid-nineteenth century.

The Eisenhower Chronicles dramatizes Ike's life, portraying his epic journey from unknown soldier to global hero as only a novel could. He is shown working with icons such as FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and confronting challenges like D-Day, the Little Rock Crisis, and Sputnik.

झाशीची राणी लक्ष्मीबाईंच्या जीवनावरील हृदयद्रावक कादंबरी ,भारतीय स्वातंत्र्याचा १८५७च्या लढ्यातील एक सुवर्णपान म्हणजे झाशीची राणी लक्ष्मीबाईंने ब्रिटीश साम्राज्याच्या विरोधी दिलेला लढा. आपल्या दत्तक मुलाला पाठीशी बांधून शेवटच्या क्षणापर्यंत तिने ब्रिटीशांच्या कावेबाज दत्तकविधान कायद्याविरोधी लढा दिला.

भा.रा.भागवत लिखित मराठी कादंबरी "भाराभर गवत" भा.रा.भागवतांचा स्वभाव हा मिश्किल होता. त्यांनी अनेक चुरचुरीत विनोदी लेखन केले. त्यांच्या या सर्व लेखनाचा हा संग्रह.

This is a work of "faction" based on the life of the author's great great grandfather, John Croft (1807-1883), who was born in Hertfordshire, England, served as a young officer in the British East India Company Army during the first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), became one of Australia's wealthiest men (1843-1859), then returned to England as a landed gentleman who married into a prominent family of industrialists.

John grew up in an incredibly narcissistic, dysfunctional family on a farm in southeastern North Carolina during the repressive 1960s. This was the model family to the broader community. His parents were considered pillars of society. Yet, this family held many deep, dark secrets governed by family honor, vanity, and pride. The parents' standing in the community was paramount to everything else. No one–no family member, circumstance, event, or situation–was to shame and embarrass them and get in the way of how they ranked and viewed themselves.

How much would you sacrifice to be free? For Theobald Wolfe Tone the answer was simple: Everything. Rebel: A Soldier is Born is the conclusion to the story of Theobald Wolfe Tone's short life, taking you on a roller-coaster ride from the first minute. Flipping across continents we learn about a young passionate man who is prepared to go to any lengths to secure freedom and rights for his fellow Irishmen. Never before has a novel been written about the life and times of Wolfe Tone. While it tells the story of the man, it accurately follows the historical path his life took.

Im Juni 1949 brachte der Dampfer "Esja" rund 200 Frauen aus Deutschland nach Island, wo sie sich als Dienstmädchen auf Bauernhöfen verdingten. Darunter auch Heinrich Liebers Mutter, von der er immer geglaubt hatte, sie sei nach seiner Geburt gestorben. 40 Jahre später ist Heinrich Bauingenieur, verheiratet, doch sein Leben gerät auf einmal ins Wanken. Der sonst so korrekte Mann fasst einen überstürzten Entschluss und reist nach Island, wo er sich auf die Suche nach seiner Herkunft macht.

Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons told in alternating time periods over 35 years. Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Israel and moved to Brooklyn as a teenager. When he flunks out of college, Bram returns to Israel in an effort to find a sense of purpose. He enlists in the Army with Yoni, his cousin and best friend. Their tour of duty is uneventful until, nearing the end of their service, they find themselves on the Lebanon frontier confronting the horrors of war.

The new novel in the Jesus Chronicles, the bestselling series from the authors of the Left Behind novels. Levi was studying to be a priest, but when an unspeakable tragedy befalls his family, he turns his back on his faith and decides to pursue riches and luxury instead. He becomes a tax...