Resultados para "Europa, Europa" en Coming of age

When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991, she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, mother, and older brother. She is sent on a seaside vacation to be far from the hostilities. Meanwhile, her father has disappeared while fighting with the Croatian forces. By the time she returns at summer's end, everything has changed.

An irresistible and poignant novel about the upper echelons of Berlin society, a grand literary celebration, and the after-party that upends the night and carries a group of guests deeper into the city Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck by a malady that...

Die 15-jährige Lies wacht eines Morgens mit dem starken Gefühl auf, dass ihrer Mutter Jet etwas passiert ist. Ihr Bett ist unberührt, sie hat ihr Handy zurückgelassen und sie bleibt spurlos verschwunden. Der Vater - in einer neuen Beziehung mit der jüngeren Laure lebend - deutet die kommentarlose Abwesenheit seiner Ex als einen willkommenen Beweis ihrer psychischen Instabilität und ihrer Unfähigkeit, sich um die Kinder zu kümmern. Sie hätte die Scheidung niemals überwunden und beschlossen, zu verschwinden.

Haiders Schatten: An der Seite von Europas erfolgreichstem Rechtspopulisten: Jörg Haiders Leben, seine Politik, seine Geheimnisse und sein Tod: Wie war der erfolgreichste Rechtspopulist Europas wirklich? Stefan Petzner, der fünf Jahre lang sein engster Vertrauter war, zeigt ihn aus nächster Nähe.

This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers. Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the...

An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review). In the wake of a baffling tragedy, 13-year-old Graham moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, a city on...

“Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York Times The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee...

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey’s highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles. A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the...

For readers of The Tiger’s Wife and All the Light We Cannot See comes a powerful debut novel about a girl’s coming of age—and how her sense of family, friendship, love, and belonging is profoundly shaped by war. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE, BOOKLIST, AND...