Resultados para "Das Tor" en Narrativa literaria

Dos hermanas gemelas adolescentes y su mejor amiga, la Nena, forman parte de un grupo de música experimental y perversa. Una de las hermanas es sordomuda y la otra fantasea con la idea de cortarle esa lengua inútil… La historia reflexiona sobre la condición sordomuda, sobre escuchar, sobre...

What do ice cream and Sadie Montgomery have in common? They're both ice cold, but one taste is never enough. I wanted to be friends - I would have even settled for her seeing me as anything but a nerd - but there was no getting through. So just like any hard-headed, red-blooded man out there, I made up my mind. I'd make my coworker fall for me.

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late 20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. An air force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.

En octubre de 2016, el director de cine colombiano Sergio Cabrera asiste en Barcelona a una retrospectiva de sus películas. Es un momento difícil: su padre, Fausto Cabrera, acaba de morir; su matrimonio está en crisis, y su país ha rechazado unos acuerdos de paz que le habrían permitido terminar con más de cincuenta años de guerra.

This title is a mystery and romance by Malú Huacuja del Toro of her native Mexico. When a female journalist visits the city in an attempt to escape her heartbreaking past, she finds herself surrounded by corruption.

Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado. Convencido de que resolver el enigma le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que se remonta a los primeros años setenta.

Nr den skotske lord Alistair vljer att gifta sig med en engelsk kvinna mot sin fars vilja blir han utesluten ur sin klan. Nr han och hans hustru dr tillfaller det Pepita att ta hand om sin systers barn, men utan ngra medel att frsrja barnen tvingas hon snart ska upp deras skotska familj. Barnens farfar tar motvilligt emot dem och lter dem stanna p slottet ett tag. Det r dr Pepita trffar Torquil, Alistairs kusin och den enda som visar gsterna ngon vnlighet.

En fruktansvärd explosion inträffar i en ammunitionsfabrik, och kirurgen Clive Ross anländer till olycksplatsen. Bland de svårt skadade hittar han en ung och vacker societetskvinna, som ber honom att låta henne dö. Den unga kvinnan, Stella Marsden, har förlorat lusten att leva efter ett hemskt svek från mannen och älskade. Men Clive räddar hennes liv, och sakta men säkert lär sig Stella att uppskatta livet igen. Men snart är tragedin framme igen i form av ett rykte, och allt som Stella har byggt upp hotar att rämna.

Il vecchio Tollak è un uomo pieno di contraddizioni: orgoglioso e furioso, giusto e tenero. Ormai vecchio e solo, non fa che imprecare contro il mondo che da tempo, per lui, ha smesso di avere senso. Solo una cosa lo teneva attaccato alla vita: sua moglie Ingeborg, amatissima, scomparsa diversi anni fa. I suoi due figli, ormai adulti, hanno abbandonato la vita desolata della provincia remota da cui provengono, e passano a trovarlo di rado; soltanto Oddo è rimasto con lui: Oddo lo scemo, come lo chiamano i vicini, di cui Tollak si prende cura da quando, ancora bambino, è stato abbandonato dalla madre.

Troubled by an inability to find any meaning in his life, the 25-year-old narrator of this deceptively simple novel quits university and eventually arrives at his brother's New York apartment. In a bid to discover what life is all about, he writes lists. He becomes obsessed by time and whether it actually matters. He faxes his meteorologist friend. He endlessly bounces a ball against the wall. He befriends a small boy who lives next door. He yearns to get to the bottom of life and how best to live it.

The Romance Reader is her absorbing tale of a headstrong, teenaged girl attempting to live in two worlds: one traditional, one modern. Since Rachel is the rabbi’s oldest child, everyone expects her to set a proper example for other young believers. But at night, after everyone is in bed, she hungrily reads books - forbidden books about romance and contemporary women. She wonders if the life she reads about in those pages actually exists. Do beautiful, daring women really travel alone?

Struggling American writer Tim Nolinger pursues his journalism career in Paris while proper Frenchwoman Anne Sophie plans their wedding. When Tim covers the theft of a valuable manuscript, the story leads the couple to the local home of a reclusive American film director and his actress wife. Once there, Tim and Anne Sophie find themselves in the midst of a murder investigation, a French-American feud, and a reckless love affair that threatens to destroy their marriage even before it begins.

This collection of 11 stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group they are representative of his style, and touch on the central themes that surface in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Stories as different as "The Snowstorm", "Lucerne", "The Diary of a Madman", and "The Devil" are grounded in autobiographical experience. They deal with journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious thought that characterizes Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.

Bernie Raleigh is a failure at nearly everything he touches. Nobody notices a loser, and after being kidnapped for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible now that he's inherited his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a mansion, a lot of obligations, and a very problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen, alien abductee, crypto-Jew, single mother—Meda is all those things, and she may be the only person who can help Bernie survive his new and very public life.

While almost all of Marguerite Duras's novels have been translated into English, her debut The Impudent Ones (Les Impudents) has been a glaring exception - until now. Fans of Duras will be thrilled to discover the germ of her bold, vital prose and signature blend of memoir and fiction in this intense and mournful story of the Taneran family, which introduces Duras' classic themes of familial conflict, illicit romance, and scandal in the sleepy suburbs and southwest provinces of postwar France.

Jodi Picoult's poignant number one New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?

The best-selling Song of Acadia series follows the affairs of two sisters from the French expulsion from Nova Scotia to the turmoil of the American Revolution. Anne in England and Nicole in America are separated by an ocean, but their hearts are still close. When they each receive a letter, they are suddenly called on a perilous journey back to their beloved homeland.

Este relato nos presenta una sociedad animalizada, salvaje, la de un país llamado El Cráter, en el que descubriremos una ciudad, una región, un pequeño país desaparecido. Nos toparemos con una enfermedad rara e inquietante que convierte a un muchacho en una especie de hombre lobo. Con un...

Estamos en una fiesta. Se trata de una celebración que más bien parece un campo de batalla, un sueño absurdo, la realidad en ruinas, porque la percibimos a través de los ojos de un extraño que observa y espera pacientemente para dar golpe. El crimen parece inevitable. Jorge Carrión nos...

Una familia ha alquilado una cabaña por Airbnb. Xoán, anfitrión de esta, se comporta de un modo extraño. A la vez, a otra cabaña cercana no paran de llegar coches con personas que parecen estar por celebrar algo. El padre, académico, intenta trabajar; la madre ha salido a dar un paseo; la...