Resultados para "Families" en Coming of age

En los años cincuenta, Antonio Padín abandona Galicia rumbo a Argentina en busca de una vida mejor para su familia. Treinta años antes ya lo hizo su abuelo Antonio quien nunca volvió, pero él le hace una promesa a Maruxa: “Volveré a buscarte.”Lo que no sabe es que esa aventura le descubrirá, entre otras cosas, la verdadera historia de su abuelo, un mundo de salones elegantes y un amor apasionado que hará resquebrajarse su promesa y le obligará a elegir entre el deber o la pasión.

An enchanting New York Times and international best seller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year-old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.

Ogni mattina Kristi si sveglia in attesa dell’inaspettato. Non ha paura del cambiamento, anzi, la sua filosofia è abbracciare tutto ciò che la vita le dona. Ne è talmente convinta che prova a trasmettere il messaggio anche ai clienti del suo negozio. Ma non è stato sempre così. Quando Kristi era solo una ragazza, è rimasta incinta della figlia Iben e ha dovuto prendere le distanze dalla famiglia per costruirsi un futuro in città. Era sola e spaventata.

Comienzos de los años noventa. La joven Kiona disfruta de una vida sibilina en Manihiki, una pequeña isla del sur del Océano Pacífico, y uno de los sitios más aislados del mundo entero. Kiona trabaja en el negocio familiar de buceo libre, vigilando las ostras y la cosecha de perlas negras. Una mañana un lujoso yate se estrella en el arrecife que rodea la isla. En el barco destrozado, los habitantes locales encuentran a un hombre herido. Su nombre es Erik y él es de Suecia.

Había una vez, en un remoto sur español, un pueblo blanco llamado Arquía de la Millación. Allí vivían: el maestro, enamorado de una inalcanzable estrella de cine; Conchita, una prostituta que quería ser madre; Don Adolfo, un pianista que inventaba un pasado mejor para su hijo; Mónica Portugal, la folclórica que fascinaba con su voz? Pero Ocho años de silencio no es una novela sobre un pueblo andaluz, ni sobre los inolvidables personajes que lo habitan.

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday - school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents - with the surreal-rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats - Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.

In the long, hot summer of 1995, 22-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs the bar, falls in love with Alice and is unbearably jealous of anyone else she sees. Tensions rise until one evening Alice disappears from her caravan. She's never seen again, and only her scarlet dress is found washed up on the shore.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

«Dos años antes de irse de casa, mi padre le dijo a mi madre que yo era muy fea». Así empieza esta novela extraordinaria sobre el descubrimiento de la mentira, el amor y el sexo, narrada por la inolvidable voz de Giovanna, una joven empeñada en conocer a su tía Vittoria, incomprensiblemente borrada de las conversaciones y álbumes de fotografías. Con ello desencadenará sin saberlo el desmoronamiento de su familia intelectual y burguesa, perfecta solo en apariencia.

Williston Bibb Barrett is a rather unusual and inquisitive young Southerner with a special gift for cultivating the possibilities of life. He suffers from occasional bouts of amnesia and disconcerting attacks of déjà vu. He clings to certain old-fashioned notions of behavior, and yet he finds himself constantly impelled to eavesdrop on other people’s conversations. And he lives with the secret suspicion that the great world catastrophe that everyone fears will happen has already happened.

La paternidad, la infidelidad, la muerte, la incapacidad para comunicar los propios sentimientos, la irrupción súbita del amor, la fascinación por el otro, la arquitectura del deseo, el miedo a la felicidad, los temas centrales que hacen temblar las vidas de los protagonistas de estas excelentes nouvelles son, en realidad, los temas de cualquier vida, pero Barba tiene la maestría de resolverlos aquí con la extraña iluminación «intervenida» con la que se resuelven en la vida real.

It’s 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice. Nearly a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she’s in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton’s senior, Edith is slow to trust. But when she needs a safe place to stay, she lets down her guard, and over the course of ten days an unlikely friendship grows.

Zwei Töchter, zwei Familien – ein unentrinnbares Schicksal Brooklyn, New York, 1928: Die Freundinnen Antonia und Sofia werden ins Mafia-Milieu hineingeboren, von klein auf sind sie unzertrennlich und doch könnten sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Sofia Colicchio ist ein Freigeist, ein wildes, ungezähmtes Wesen. Antonia Russo ist bedacht, beobachtet still die Welt um sich herum. Die Häuser der Freundinnen grenzen aneinander, ihre Väter sind Teil der »Familie«, die beider Welten untrennbar verbindet.

Mickey Bloom: five-foot tall, dyslexic, and bullied at school. With a mostly absent and hostile father, Mickey feels she's no good at anything. Until she discovers running. Mickey's newfound talent makes her realize she's everything she thought she wasn't—powerful, strong, and special. But her success comes at a cost, and the relentless training and pressure to win leaves Mickey broken; her dream in tatters. Years later, when Mickey is working in a dead-end job, her mother becomes ill. While nursing her, Mickey realizes the only way she can overcome her grief—and find herself—is to run again.

Florida, 1982. A nine-year-old watches as his dead father's possessions are hauled away: his clothes and tools, his faux-leather recliner. His sensei says it's a perfect time to turn his weaknesses into weapons. His PE teacher says he runs like a pregnant ostrich. His mother takes out a personal ad. Everyone is trying to teach him a lesson but he is, it seems, a slow learner. Meanwhile, with each passing day, his father recedes, growing less and less plausible, almost a myth.

In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first. For fatefully observant Adeline, growing up carries an ominous warning from her adulterous mother: don’t say a word. Adeline vows to never speak again. But that’s not her only secret. After her mother takes a housekeeping job at a lighthouse off the tip of Cape Ann, a local woman vanishes. The key to the mystery lies with Adeline, the silent witness.

Mao frequenta la seconda superiore e guarda con incertezza al proprio futuro. Lontana dalla madre Yuko, che lavora a tempo pieno in un hotel come concierge, la ragazza vive con Chie, la nonna artigiana che ripara vasi e ceramiche attraverso l'antica arte del kintsugi. Tra le sue mani, gli oggetti rotti vengono aggiustati saldando i pezzi con cura grazie a una lacca speciale, che viene poi fatta asciugare e ricoperta di polvere d'oro: una tecnica millenaria che celebra le imperfezioni esaltandole, invece di nasconderle.

Seventeen-year-old Kitty Heath is determined to shine at Harvard’s Class Day celebrations, outfitted in a fashionable Paris organdie gown with daisies in her bonnet and a train she insists upon having. Behind her excitement stands her devoted sister Priscilla, quietly sacrificing to make Kitty’s dreams possible. But amid flirtations, mishaps, and a humiliating tumble, Kitty learns that true happiness lies not in appearances or admiration, but in the steadfast love of family and the honest affection of her cousin Jack.

In the sun-bleached idyll of his Greek island home, seventeen-year-old Petros Castellanos’s future seems mapped out: he’ll inherit his father’s modest taxi fleet and continue his family tradition. However, his English mother sees a different path for her son, one that leads far from the watchful eyes of their small community. So Petros goes to London to stay with his mother’s cousin. The capital is an overwhelming city whose dazzling possibilities both terrify and enthral him.

Jaxie dreads going home. His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. And then, in one terrible moment, his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There’s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.