Resultados para "Elias" en Pueblos y campo

Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone’s throw from the trailer park where they’ve lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay.

Mamatoco es un pueblo inventado del Caribe colombiano. Podría ser muchos otros en el mundo, pero es ese y en esa región. El narrador saltimbanquea de una historia a la otra. Las anécdotas de los habitantes de Mamatoco tocan fibras universales porque él se toma el trabajo de sacarles jugo. Hace que giren por momentos hacia otras disquisiciones más antropológicas o filosóficas, que en esta oportunidad solo refuerzan la calidad literaria.

A veces la gente inventa lugares habitables. Es el caso de la aldea que supieron fundar Mercedes, Luis Mariano y el Viejo Balía. Muchas mujeres y hombres aparecen en los 104 relatos breves que se engarzan en esta novela. El grupo de protagonistas, cada cual con su profundidad psicológica, se enfrenta a las amenazas de los cataclismos naturales y de la violencia política. Inspirada en los acontecimientos que vivieron personas reales, La aldea debajo de la montaña nos muestra lo que puede la literatura cuando juega con otros saberes.

A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing center can dispense to a small town. But is a return to the days of plenty possible? And what of the changed relationships between lovers, and within families, that have transpired in the years since that earlier time? Perišić takes us there, into the past and into the future, and watches with a bemused sad smile as the inevitable wreaks havoc with the possible.

Henry Atkins is determined to turn around his no-good, sorry life and prove to the residents of Clyde’s Corner that he’s not the town bad boy anymore. But when every secret fantasy in his head walks into the stables at Muddy River Ranch, the straight and narrow path he’s on takes a wild detour. Micah has been one of the biggest porn stars in the world for five years, but he’s burned out. A month’s vacation with his old friend Ben in Montana is just what his jaded heart needs. He wants rest, fresh air, and to not be recognized by a living soul.

Da Anna-Lisa Johansson rammer de tredive år, rammer trediveårskrisen også. På et loppemarked falder hun over romanen ”Vejen til Klockrike”, og hun fascineres af historien om vagabonden Bolle og hans ubekymrede liv. Anna-Lisa beslutter sig for at følge i hans fodspor og tager på en vandretur gennem Sveriges sommerland. Hun skaffer sig kost og logi ved at male hegn og slå græs og tjener lidt penge på det, hun er bedst til: at finde gode loppefund og sælge dem videre. Undervejs tænker hun over, hvad hun vil med resten af sit liv. Og måske er der ovenikøbet en fyr til hende derude?

Juggling two teenage boys and being the General Manager at the top hotel in the area keeps me busy. The last thing I need is the persistent and charming fire chief on my tail. I can't help but be drawn to him, though. Just when I start thinking it might work out, my worst fear becomes a reality.

USA Today bestselling author Annie Rains returns to Somerset Lake, North Carolina, with a heartwarming Christmas story about a midwife and her ex-fiance who face high stakes when they must team up to compete in the neighborhood house decorating contest, in this trade paperback that will help get...

AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday Here are...

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...