Resultados para "Air" en Narrativa literaria

Virginia acaba de heredar el negocio familiar: la librería Palinuro. Entre el montón de ejemplares, polvo y papeles que su padre acumuló, pronto aparece la historia de Carlota Guillot y la búsqueda de un libro, escurridizo y caprichoso, que formó parte de una de las bibliotecas particulares más sibaritas de la Barcelona napoleónica. Una historia prolongada a lo largo de las décadas más convulsas del siglo XIX en que la ciudad asistió, incrédula, a su mayor transformación: el derribo de las murallas y la urbanización de su paseo más emblemático, La Rambla.

Un exceso de confianza condenó al ladrón. O quizás, el ímpetu de la adolescencia. Tiene apenas catorce años, y la anciana a la que pretende robar mientras ingresa a su casa, noventa y tres. En principio, nada puede salir mal. Pero sale mal. Cuando el joven se quiere dar cuenta, está...

In Great Uncle Edward, a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attended both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of a storied past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy.

Pauline falls through the floor and no one notices. A chance encounter with a “goddamn mermaid” defines a boy’s life. Scarves flying in a storm turn a wealthy child into a high priestess whether she likes it or not. A mysterious rain messes with Virgil’s memories…Set in New York and Long Island, these brilliantly crafted stories spy on the most private of human pivots and culminations, on those moments of absolute clarity when we’re on the brink of letting go. Sometimes we do, and the wind takes us. Sometimes we hold tight. Or we take a deep breath and raise our flags.

In her debut novel, author Jaclyn Gilbert weaves together the strands of two lives that form a union as finely nuanced and delicate as a spider’s web - and just as vulnerable. Following the relationship of Murray and his ex-wife, Nancy, in alternating narratives, we experience their early moments of hope and desire as well as their fears and failings. With poignancy and grace, Late Air traces the collapse of a marriage, exhausted by time and trauma, and one couple’s journey to regain their footing.

Claire Boltwood and her father drive their Gomez-Dep roadster from Minnesota to Seattle, exposing themselves to all the perils of early motoring. They encounter the upper-crust Boltwoods who are at once more noble and more insignificant. Other class barriers exist between Claire and a mechanic named Milt, who, along with his cat, follows close behind.

It's been a long, hot summer in Stony Point. As temperatures rise on the Connecticut coast, so do the secrets. Everyone's got one. Jason and Maris, Celia and lobsterman Shane, the beach commissioner, and especially innkeeper Elsa. With the passing summer days, each secret - sad, shocking, and sweet - unfurls like a breaking wave.

本オーディオブックは、大正六年に刊行された短篇集「羅生門」全十四話と後書を読んだものです。この集に入っている短篇は、「羅生門」「狢」「忠義」を除いて、芥川龍之介が数え年二十五歳の一年間に書かれたものです。そして多くは自分たちが経営した雑誌「新思潮」に一度掲載されたものです。恐らく初めてお聞きになる作品もあるとおもいますが、二十五歳という青年が人の心の奥に潜むものをここまで描ききった作品に出会えることに感動を覚えることと思います。当時の出版では、版を重ねるたびに作者自身が変更を加えることもよくありましたので、みなさんのご存知の内容と微妙に違うところもあるかもしれません。本オーディオブックでオリジナルに近いものをお聞きください。また「羅生門の後に」と題した後書にも思わぬ発見をすることとおもいます。(C)株式会社AIR

孤児となったジェーン・エアは、叔母のリード夫人に引き取られます。リード夫人にもその子どもたちにも差別されて育ち、不満を抱えて反抗するも、愛情を与えられることは一切なく日々を過ごすジェーン。

Dos jóvenes cartoneros se conocen en la calle mientras recogen basura y todo tipo de residuos. Emprenden un viaje de búsqueda y conocimiento mutuo que los lleva a reflexionar sobre la clase de vida que se puede vivir en medio de la basura y la clase de sociedad que permite que algunos de sus integrantes deba y pueda ganarse el sustento en esas condiciones.

Shortstops who run with the wolves, painted eggs that reveal deeply disturbing meanings, long-dead Hall of Famers who miraculously return to the game, an Iowa minor-league town with a secret conspiracy: these are the elements from which W.P. Kinsella weaves nine fabulous stories about the magical world of baseball.

"[A] glorious, glittery saga of friendship and loss... I read The Air You Breathe in two nights. (One might say I inhaled it.)." --NPR "Echoes of Elena Ferrante resound in this sumptuous saga."--O, The Oprah Magazine "Enveloping...Peebles understands the shifting currents of female friendship...

Châtillon-sur-Indre. L'été 2018 s'annonce mouvementé pour Lisa : tandis qu'elle s'apprête à recueillir sa mère fragilisée par la violence de son ex-compagnon, elle doit également héberger son grand-père, Loulou, dont la maison est en travaux. Or cela fait huit ans que tous deux ne se parlent plus. La présence de Tim, son petit garçon qu'elle élève seule et que tous adorent, suffira-t-elle à apaiser les tensions ?

Nach einer unschönen Ehe kauft sich Tessa Carmichael eine kleine Farm und lebt dort recht zurückgezogen am Rande einer Kleinstadt. Eines Abends steht ein Soldat vor ihrer Tür und behauptet, diese Farm würde ihm gehören. Liam Thompson hat nicht ganz Unrecht, Tessa kennt sein Gesicht aus dem Fernsehen. Er ist der Soldat, der fünf Jahre lang ein Gefangener von Terroristen war. Alle hatten ihn für tot gehalten und so wurde die Farm nach dem Tod seiner Großmutter an Tessa verkauft. Liam sieht so müde aus, dass Tessa ihn nicht einfach wegschicken will, sie lässt ihn in ihr Haus.

A joyfully unhinged story of money, marriage, sex, and revenge unspools when a billionaire crashes his hot-air balloon into the middle of a post-pandemic first date. Joannie hadn’t been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his...

"An exhilarating adventure." —Zoje Stage, USA Today bestselling author of Baby Teeth and Dear Hanna A smart, thrilling and powerful debut by Lilli Sutton that asks what it costs to pursue your wildest dreams? Evelyn and Sophie, sisters and best friends, were known as one of the climbing...

Tom Connolly's dazzling second novel is a funny, turbulent and heartfelt study of male relationships and a glorious love letter to the city of New York. It is April in Manhattan, and the destinies of four very different men are about to collide. Nineteen-year-old Finn has just arrived in the city with his irrepressible and volatile girlfriend, Dilly, determined to even the score with his older brother, Jack, for abandoning him in the UK in the aftermath of their parents' deaths.

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and...

Nothing is simple for the men and women in Donald Antrim’s stories. As they do the things we all do - bum a cigarette at a party, stroll with a girlfriend down Madison Avenue, take a kid to the zoo - they’re confronted with their own uncooperative selves. These artists, writers, lawyers, teachers, and actors make fools of themselves, spiral out of control, have delusions of grandeur, despair, and find it hard to imagine a future. They talk, they listen, they hope, they dream.

Though it's not quite the motherland, Glasglow, Kansas, makes a fine home for Scotsman Rob MacPherson and his son Ewan. As the elder MacPherson blows up whiskey stills in his attempts to make a single-malt Scotch, Ewan falls in love - at twelve years of age - with Shirley Porter. There's no turning back for Ewan. From that moment on, his heart has set its course.