Resultados para "Abandon" en Narrativa literaria

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past—secrets that refuse to remain hidden. While researching a story...

Todo cambia en la vida de Olga cuando, después de quince años de matrimonio, Mario la abandona por una jovencita. Sola con sus dos hijos, el mundo en apariencia perfecto de la mujer se desmorona. Atrapada entre las cuatro paredes del piso que antes llamaba hogar, Olga no duerme, no come y casi no se reconoce: quien está al otro lado del espejo cuando se mira por la mañana es una mujer que ha perdido todos sus atributos y tendrá que buscar otras palabras que la definan y le permitan seguir adelante.

An eccentric and hilarious tale of a small Welsh community as it struggles to adjust to modern life; from the acclaimed author of Submarine. Kate and Albert, sister and brother, have grown up on a secluded communal farm. Now their home is disintegrating, taking their parents' marriage with it...

Tuition is high. The body count will be higher. A masked killer stalks the campus of St. Bernard’s University. A killer who doesn’t simply stalk, slash, and stab. A killer who revels in gore, gut-churning acts of extreme violence, and relentlessly sadistic degradation. Parties on campus are raging, but someone is preparing to commit the ultimate party foul. As the student body becomes aware that they and their classmates have much graver things to worry about than final exams, they begin to suspect one another of unthinkable crimes. In Academia, no one is safe. Not even YOU!

A number-one bestseller from one of Britain’s most popular novelists, Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act. Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures...

'Sometimes, Max, I imagine that I see you in her. Not in the sense of any physical inheritance, but a fleeting essence. Something wary and remote. Haunted, you might say. Though her ghosts are not yours.'Set between India and England, Faithless is the story of Cressida, a writer and translator...

Depois do sucesso de O peso do pássaro morto e Pequena coreografia do adeus, Aline Bei volta a explorar temas como maternidade e infância em Uma delicada coleção de ausências, um romance emocionante sobre três mulheres — neta, avó e bisavó — que precisam conviver em suas...

Abby a besoin de souffler. Depuis qu'elle essaye désespérément de tomber enceinte, ses relations avec son mari sont de plus en plus tendues. Alors, sur un coup de tête, elle fait ses valises pour la région de Cork, en Irlande, à la recherche de sa mère Caitlin, qui l'a abandonnée quand elle était bébé. Mais en retrouvant Caitlin, elle découvre aussi une valise remplie de cassettes audio enregistrées par sa grand-mère, Lucy. Celle-ci y raconte sa vie d'Irlandaise émigrée à New York au début du XXe siècle.

"A compelling page-turner one won't want to put down.”—New York Journal of Books Two women. Two families. Two lifetimes' worth of secrets. In the wake of her husband’s sudden death, Cassie Costas finds her relationship with her teenage stepdaughter unraveling. After their move to historic...

“There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” —Sigrid...

Maya’s Notebook is a startling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende. This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini...