Resultados para "Elias" en Narrativa literaria

En esta bellísima pieza literaria su autora nos recuerda que somos palabras, que somos seres que nos narramos a nosotros mismos, creando así nuestra propia historia. En la búsqueda nostálgica de algo que puede estar o no estar allí, esta novela corta tan breve como intensa presenta una historia de amor e identidad que desafía los hilos del tiempo, de la soledad y de la memoria, en aquel espacio en el que el deseo tiene su propia dimensión y la pasión sus propias leyes.

Heroínas es un audiolibro ideado y presentado por Juan Gómez-Jurado con catorce cuentos en torno al 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, escritos por Elia Barceló, Espido Freire, Luz Gabás, Arturo González-Campos, Alaitz Leceaga, Manel Loureiro, Raquel Martos, José María Merino...

Los habitantes de Santa Rita, con sus problemas e historias, y dos cadáveres – uno, un bebé cuyo esqueleto se acaba de encontrar entre los restos de un muro derribado, en la zona antigua de Santa Rita, junto a unos cuadros muy valiosos de la escuela expresionista ""Der Blaue Reiter"", el otro, un conocido especialista de historia del arte que tenía que hacer el peritaje de los cuadros - forman el núcleo narrativo de la nueva obra de Elia Barceló, un Noir Mediterráneo, con guiños a clásicos del suspense como Colombo o Dexter.

Un escenario sorprendente, una intriga científica apasionante y una trama psicológica de alto voltaje. Elio Quiroga, ganador del premio Minotauro, mezcla el apasionante retrato psicológico de unos personajes llenos de secretos –que ni ellos mismos conocen del todo– con una misteriosa...

For Denny Graubert, the chaotic summer of 1967 - when the screams of napalm bombs on the nightly news drowned the cheers of the All-Star game - brings the painful realization that childhood has passed. While engaging in his favorite domestic spying game, Denny unwittingly discovers the desperate measures his mother will take to save his autistic older brother, Fad, who is lost in the diagnostic Dark Ages of autism.

What would you say to a young stranger who wishes to die? What arguments would you use to restore his will to live? What ideas and ideals would you invoke to save him? Faced with that dilemma, the principal character of Elie Wiesel's magnificent novel - an old wanderer named Azriel - decides to tell a story: his own. The very one he was not supposed to tell, the one he had pledged to keep to himself.

Sent to a "therapeutic community" for autism at the age of 11, Todd Aaron, now in his '50s, is the "old fox" of Payton Living Center. A joyous man who rereads the encyclopedia compulsively, he is unnerved by the sudden arrivals of a menacing new staffer and a disruptive, brain-injured roommate. His equilibrium is further worsened by Martine, a one-eyed new resident who has romantic intentions and convinces him to go off his meds to feel "normal" again.

In these disturbing, haunting, yet strangely beautiful stories, the terrible carnage of the Middle East is rendered in unforgettable form. In "An Unwelcome Guest", a young Jewish settler from New York plays a deadly game of backgammon with a ghostly old Arab while his pregnant wife sleeps unaware. In "The King of the King of Falafel", a restaurant rivalry ends in apocalyptic violence. And in the brilliant, horrifying title story, a lonely shepherd wanders a broken no-man's land, carrying with him the burden of an unspeakable act.

Nel marzo 2021, un Boeing 787 di Air France in volo da Parigi a New York incappa in una grande turbolenza prima di atterrare. Tre mesi dopo lo stesso aereo, con gli stessi passeggeri e un identico equipaggio, ricontatta i controllori di volo dell'aeroporto JFK. L'inspiegabile duplicazione preoccupa CIA, FBI e gli alti comandi dell'esercito, che dirottano l'aereo in una base militare. Le indagini degli Stati Uniti e delle altre potenze scatenano una caccia all'uomo planetaria per rintracciare i misteriosi doppi di tutte le persone a bordo.

As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he’s been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can’t remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible....

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.

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

At 62 Sheriff Clint Benbow is not a sound sleeper. He is awakened one night by the tremors of an explosion, and learns it came from the local bank. It is now his duty to venture into the blizzard outside and apprehend the robbers, but at his age the job seems impossible.

Eli's Promise is a masterful work of historical fiction spanning three eras—Nazi-occupied Poland, the American Zone of post-war Germany, and Chicago at the height of the Vietnam War. Award-winning author Ronald H. Balson explores the human cost of war, the mixed blessings of survival, and the enduring strength of family bonds.

The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history. A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’...

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail. To appease the red-haired captain, Wedgwood gets cracking with the meager supplies on board. His first triumph at sea is actual bread, made from a sourdough starter that he leavens in a tin under his shirt throughout a roaring battle, as men are cutlassed all around him. Soon he's making tea-smoked eel and brewing pineapple-banana cider.

A searing exploration of a man haunted by the horrors of the twentieth century, a man who feels he must be going mad but who finds a way out of the darkness. Doriel is a European transplanted to New York who carries with him a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a...

Wie in einer Muschel lebt Peter Kien, Sinologe und Bücherliebhaber, in seiner Bibliothek. Der Eindringling, der diese Muschel aufbricht, heißt...

From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved...

From the Nobel laureate and author of the masterly Night, a deeply felt, beautifully written novel of morality, guilt, and innocence. Despite personal success, Yedidyah—a theater critic in New York City, husband to a stage actress, father to two sons—finds himself increasingly drawn to the...