Resultados para "Benjamin" en Ficción biográfica

García Márquez y Vargas Llosa se conocieron en el aeropuerto de Caracas, en agosto de 1967. Con apenas treinta y un años, Vargas Llosa era ya un escritor aclamado por la crítica. García Márquez, cuarenta años cumplidos, encontraba por fin el éxito editorial con Cien años de soledad, publicada ese año en Buenos Aires. Antes de confundirse en un abrazo en el aeropuerto de Caracas que dio inicio formal a la amistad, los dos genios de la literatura se habían escrito cartas y leído mutuamente con admiración.

Leonor de Habsburgo tuvo que renunciar dos veces al amor de su vida y apartarse de su hija para no volver a verla nunca más por orden del emperador a quien le debía obediencia. Leonor de Habsburgo nos despliega la vida de una mujer que tuvo que someterse a las fuertes obligaciones que imponía la Casa de Habsburgo y que convertía a las mujeres en moneda de cambio política.

Mit den Worten "Hallo Leute. Mein Name ist Benjamin Lebert. Ich bin 16 Jahre alt, und ich bin ein Krüppel" stellt sich Benni seinen neuen Mitschülern im Internat vor. Und genauso schnörkellos, unverkrampft und direkt erzählt er seine Geschichte vom Leben, Lieben und Leiden eines 16-Jährigen. "Crazy" wurde zum Kultbuch einer ganzen Generation, ein Weltbestseller, der mit Robert Stadlober in der Hauptrolle verfilmt wurde.

The Last Pilot begins in the bone-dry Mojave Desert during the late 1940s, where US Air Force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier. Among the exalted few is Jim Harrison: dedicated to his wife, Grace, and their baby daughter. By the 1960s, the space race is underway, and Harrison and his colleagues are offered a place in history as the world’s first astronauts. Jim is faced with the decision of whether to accept his ticket to the moon and at what cost.

La vita di Benjamin Button inizia in modo molto insolito. Fatica parecchio a farsi accettare così com'è, poi, col passare degli anni tutto diventa più facile...

Questo racconto, pubblicato nel 1922 , fu ispirato da un’osservazione di Mark Twain: che era un peccato che la parte migliore della nostra vita venisse all’inizio e la peggiore alla fine. Dice Francis Scott Fitzgerald: “Io ho cercato di dimostrare la sua tesi, facendo un esperimento con un uomo inserito in un ambiente perfettamente normale.”. Dal racconto, surreale ma niente affatto superficiale, è stato tratto un film nel 2008.

Manchmal muss man über den Horizont hinausblicken, um die Dinge zu sehen, auf die man seit Langem vergeblich gewartet hat. Benjamin Foster ist Ende 30, trockener Alkoholiker und sehr zurückgezogen. Sein einziger Kontakt ist seine erwachsene Patentochter Crystal–aber ausgerechnet diese familiäre Bindung gerät ins Wanken, nachdem Benjamin erneut einen schweren Rückfall erleidet.

The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi...

Benjamin Frankiln’s Bastard by Sally Cabot is an absorbing and compelling work of literary historical fiction that brings to life a little-known chapter of the American Revolution — the story of Benjamin Franklin and his bastard son, and the women who loved them both. William Franklin, the...

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionized every field he touched, his mathematical powers were so exceptional that Hans Bethe—a Nobel Prize-winning physicist—thought he might represent the next step in human evolution. After seeking the foundations of mathematics during his youth in Germany, von Neumann emigrated to the United States, where he became entangled in the power games of the Cold War; he designed the world's first programmable computer, invented game theory, pioneered AI and digital life, and helped create atomic bombs.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. People’s...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator’s Wife, a “rich exploration of two Hollywood friends who shaped the movies” (USA Today)—screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford “Full of Old Hollywood glamour and true details...

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a...

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling. But oh...

1972, sur l'île de Heybeliada au large d'Istanbul, le refuge de Portmantle accueille des artistes en burn-out. Knell, talentueuse peintre écossaise, y vit depuis une dizaine d'années quand son quotidien est chamboulé par l'arrivée de Fullerton, un nouveau venu instable, qu'elle retrouve bientôt noyé dans sa baignoire. Cet événement l'oblige à considérer d'un œil différent ce refuge régi par des lois singulières. Elle replongera aussi dans sa jeunesse en Écosse et dans ses années de formation dans le Londres des sixties.

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars...

Fray Rodrigo de Ávila, a Dominican friar, witnesses the vast Spanish Empire stretch across continents, yet sees not glory, but the human cost of ambition. In the Council of the Indies, he condemns the brutality of the conquistadors and the empire's moral corruption. He expects exile, censure, or death, but instead, the crown summons him as a reluctant adviser, placing the weight of conscience squarely on his shoulders.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...

The Pope recently referred to the continuing ‘mystery of Judas’. This intriguing book – the result of an intense collaboration between one of the world’s most popular storytellers and one of the world’s leading biblical scholars – throws a new light on the events leading up to the...