Resultados para "Frank" en Narrativa literaria

Guerreros y eremitas, boyardos y siervos, héroes y heroínas románticos, ancianas damas ricas, buscadores de fortuna y exiliados... Los personajes de Rusia habitan en un mundo contradictorio de bosques, estepas, iconos y hachas, fe ortodoxa y persecución a los judíos, hermosas iglesias, palacios magníficos y pueblos miserables; de arte popular ruso y operas suntuosas, de Tolstói y Lenin, Chaikovsky y Rasputín.

El arranque de la novela no dejará indiferente a ningún lector, porque es una reelaboración del famosísimo inicio de "La metamorfosis" de Kafka. Solo que aquí se invierten los términos y nos encontramos con una cucaracha que un buen día, al despertarse, descubre que se ha convertido en un enorme ser humano, concretamente en el primer ministro del Reino Unido, de nombre Jim Sams. Y resulta no ser la única cucaracha transformada en político que se mueve por las altas esferas.

En este magnífico audiolibro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa, vista a través de un niño. Por ello, el oyente se encontrará con grandes dosis de humor y compasión transmitidos a través de su autor, Frank McCourt. Es una extraordinaria obra donde McCourt nos muestra el amor, la dignidad y el humor de una infancia marcada por el hambre, la muerte y el dolor.

L'opera fa parte del progetto "AutoreVole: audiodrammi in teatro" in cui autori di fama nazionale si sono confrontati con la drammaturgia radiofonica. Allestiti in teatro, gli audiodrammi permettono agli spettatori - dotati di radiocuffie - di "vedere la radio". Sono le dieci di sera, dentro e fuori del museo di Anne Frank, ad Amsterdam. Per tutto il giorno, come ogni giorno dell'anno, migliaia di persone si sono assiepate davanti alla casa nascondiglio di Anne Frank, per poterla visitare.

"Las dos doncellas" desarrolla las andanzas, incidentes y vicisitudes de dos muy jóvenes y hermosas damas a las que prometió matrimonio un mismo joven, apasionado y apuesto caballero; la una, enamorada y con la promesa escrita y firmada de ser desposada; la otra, además de enamorada, tomada por esposa en el lecho y con el compromiso de hacerlo ante el altar.

The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers - drunk and high on whatever’s on offer - bet on the fighters. Jarhead is a desperate man who’d do just about anything to feed his children. He’s also the toughest fighter in southeastern Kentucky, and he’s convinced that his ticket to a better life is one last fight with a cash prize so big it’ll solve all his problems.

Die Beschäftigung mit dem Nachlass seines verstorbenen Vaters ruft im Erzähler von Frank Witzels autobiografischem Roman Erinnerungen an eine Kindheit wach, in der das Fernsehen den Vorabend erfindet. Eine Kindheit voller Disziplinierungsmaßnahmen wie Hausarrest, Tonband- und Fernsehverbot, in der die Eltern ihrem Kind unwissentlich den Schrecken der einst selbst erlittenen Trennung als unentwegte Drohung weitergeben.

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bill’s southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied.

"If you, too, feel like wandering, come along and help me unravel this odd tale - a tale full of half-truths, whole-truths, and no-truths at all." So begins Frank Capra's never published, and often speculated about novel of his favorite place - Silver Lake, nestled in the jagged cliffs of the eastern Sierra Nevadas. Capra casts the fictional Frank Capra in the lead roll of this novel of environmental and humanitarian preservation.

Brütende Hitze, ein Freibad und mittendrin sieben Menschen, deren Lebenswege sich für einen schicksalhaften Moment miteinander verbinden. Da ist Kiontke, der Bademeister, der noch immer am Beckenrand steht, auch wenn die Leute meinen, dass es ihn eigentlich hätte umhauen müssen, dieses Unglück damals. Da ist Renate, die hinter der Kasse sitzt und zu viel raucht und die zwei, vier, acht Sachen an Kiontke mag, was sie natürlich niemals zugeben würde.

Anne Frank muore a Bergen-Belsen nel marzo del 1945 pochi mesi dopo essere stata deportata insieme alla sua famiglia. Aveva trascorso i due anni precedenti nascosta nell'"alloggio segreto", dedicando parte delle sue lunghe giornate alla stesura del suo diario, un documento unico, commovente e sincero. Ma Anne, che sognava di diventare una scrittrice, non si limitò ad affidare al diario la cronaca quotidiana della sua vita in clandestinità.

In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.

In "one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly), Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Vermont, to spin a touching coming-of-age tale in an America that has almost disappeared. From this remote village, noted for its fervent devotion to the Red Sox, comes Ethan “E. A.” Allen, a young man with a chance to change baseball history. Homeschooled, fatherless, and living on the wrong side of the tracks, E. A. is haunted by a dark mystery in his family’s past until a drifter named Teddy arrives in his life, determined to teach E. A. everything he knows about baseball.

Paula er vokset op hos sin mor i et hippiekollektiv i Nordsjælland og har aldrig kendt sin portugisiske far. Som teenager vender hun kollektivet ryggen og skaber sig i stedet et uafhængigt liv i København. Da hendes mor dør efter kort tids sygdom, beslutter Paula sig for at rejse til Lissabon og lede efter sin forsvundne far. Rejsen til Lissabon afslører dystre familiehemmeligheder, der har rødder i Portugals fascistiske fortid.

Ojo and Unc Nunkie live in the land of Oz in Munchkin Country. Their neighbor, Dr. Pipt, has been devotedly working on the Powder of Life for many years. This magical powder will turn inanimate objects into living things. While demonstrating its power on a stuffed doll made of patchwork, Dr. Pipt accidentally turns his wife and Unc Nunkie to stone. It is up to Ojo to collect the necessary ingredients to destroy the spell and turn them back.

A bordo de su barco Eline, Jatgeir llega a Bjørgvin desde Vaim, la pequeña ciudad donde vive. Necesita comprar hilo y aguja para coser un botón, pero en las tiendas le piden un precio exorbitante y es doblemente estafado. Antes de volver a casa con las manos vacías, fondea en una aldea de pescadores para dormir en su barco, pero una voz familiar lo despierta en medio de la noche: es Eline, su gran amor de juventud, que ha dejado a su marido, Frank, y quiere regresar a Vaim con él.

Detective Inspector Frank Elder's first case was unsolved. A dead woman, lying on a bed, immaculately dressed. The murderer was never found: free to kill again. Eight years later, Elder's estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friend's sister Claire has mysteriously disappeared. Elder reluctantly agrees to help. Then Claire is found dead, arranged with meticulous detail on her bed, and it doesn't take long for Elder to make the connection.

Stacy Keach stars in this shocking tale of a Polk Street dentist and his wife in 1899 San Francisco. Frank Norris’ powerful insights into the depths of the human soul make this a story of compelling narrative force. This seminal novel about murder, obsession and the destructive effects of greed features an all-star cast including Stacy Keach, Edward Asner, Ed Begley Jr., Bud Cort, Hector Elizondo, Teri Garr, Katherine Helmond, Helen Hunt, Amy Irving, Carol Kane, Marsha Mason, Richard Masur, Judge Reinhold, and more.

London 1960. På Hotel Flanagans tager man imod gæster fra jetsettet og adelen, og hoteldirektør Linda Lansing er kendt for at holde overdådige fester. Men i virkeligheden trives Linda ikke i rollen som hotelejer. Hun er opvokset i Fjällbacka i Sverige og har arvet Flanagans efter sin engelske far. Selv om hun efterhånden har været i branchen i ti år, er udfordringerne mange, især som kvindelig chef. Dertil kommer, at hendes egne fætre vil gøre alt for at ødelægge hendes succes.