Resultados para "Held" en Literatura de género

1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present.

2004 wurde Emmanuel Carrère Zeuge der Tsunami-Katastrophe. In den Trümmern des Desasters lernte er ein junges Paar kennen, dessen Tochter von der Welle fortgerissen wurde. Carrère kümmert sich um die verwaisten Eltern – und beginnt, ihre Geschichte festzuhalten. Zurück in Paris, umlagert das Unglück weiter Carrères Leben: Seine Schwägerin stirbt und lässt drei Kinder zurück. In der Trauer blitzen Erinnerungen auf, fließen Erzählungen von Freunden und Verwandten zusammen, die Hoffnung und Stärkung verheißen.

Sorprenent i addictiva, l'òpera prima d'Helder Farrés és una d'aquelles novel·les difícils d'oblidar. El protagonista, que pateix la síndrome de Novotsky, és empès per la seva mare a investigar la misteriosa figura del seu avi matern, mort d'accident en circumstàncies estranyes. Viatja a França seguint la pista d'una adreça que troba al dors d'un sobre i, un cop allà, intentarà completar el trencaclosques vital del seu avi. Obsessiu, fràgil, metòdic i persistent, el protagonista haurà de lluitar contra els seus fantasmes per esdevenir un home lliure.

Ein Funke Rebellion kann ein Imperium zum Fall bringen. Als Finn Brasa in einen tödlichen Gladiatorenkampf gegen High-Tech-Attentäter und intelligente Roboter geworfen wird, geschieht das alles nur zur Unterhaltung der Massen. Niemand rechnete damit, dass er überleben würde – am allerwenigsten Finn selbst. Seine Belohnung? Status und Reichtum. Aber wonach Finn wirklich hungert, ist Revolution. Das einfache Volk sehnt sich verzweifelt nach einem Anführer, der sich erhebt und das rücksichtslose Imperium herausfordert, das die Menschheit seit Jahrhunderten unterjocht.

When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, with Innes at her side. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child.

Gripping, insightful and deft, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. It won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does...

Jede Tat zieht Konsequenzen nach sich. Jede Tat betrifft das unmittelbare Umfeld. Jede Tat kann Leben kosten. Auch wenn man nicht sieht, was man durch den einfachen Druck auf einen Kopf anrichtet, hat man es doch getan. Und manchmal, in den Momenten, wenn man am wenigsten darüber nachdenkt, wird man mit seinen Taten konfrontiert.

Katy Walton spent her life trying to be a good girl, or at least giving the appearance of one. When she marries into a long family line of Southern Baptist preachers, it becomes her job to maintain the image of the perfect family in the perfect church with a perfect future ahead. When the facade starts to crumble and even her best intentions fail to fool anyone, she finds herself alone and abandoned. It's not until she realizes how much living in the shadows of secrets and shame has damaged her daughter, Ivy Rose, that she learns to let go of all she once held.

Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just 14 and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Thirty-five years later, in Denver, Melanie dabbles in affairs with married men while clinging to a corporate job that gives her life order even as her tenuous relationships fall apart. She still hasn't learned that the woman who raised her is actually her aunt.

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international bestsellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations...

In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief.

A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood with stunning emotional punch - this is Maggie O'Farrell doing what she does better than anyone.This is the story of two women - Lexie and Elina, a journalist and a painter - separated by fifty years, but linked by a story of love, family secrets and deception, that touches powerfully on the theme of motherhood. It is acclaimed and bestselling author Maggie O'Farrell's most emotionally satisfying novel to date.

In this short story, Captain Chisholm’s pride and joy, The Swordfish, is taken from him by a mutinous crew. But the sea seems to take matters into its own hands to reunite the old captain with his beloved ship.

Eine neue Zeit, eine große Liebe und eine mutige Frau, die ihren Weg geht. Um ihre Familie zu retten, folgt Elise von Achenthal ihrer Pflicht und heiratet den Londoner Fabrikantensohn Fletcher Cunningham. Die Hochzeitsreise führt sie über den Atlantik zu Plantagen im Süden der USA, wo Elise die Schrecken der Sklaverei aus erster Hand miterlebt. Doch Fletcher sieht in der Ausbeutung von Sklaven und Arbeitern nur seinen Vorteil. Und damit nicht genug: Um die schwangere Elise zu „schonen“, kauft er sich eine junge Sklavin und nimmt sie zu seinem Vergnügen mit nach England.

"Greer, du kan ikke overkomme den slags. Greer, du ved, at din krop ikke kan klare så meget. Greer, du kaster dig altid over mere, end du kan gennemføre." Hele sit liv er Greer Hawthorne blevet pakket ind i vat. Så da en lottogevinst giver hende chancen for at følge sin drøm om at tage en uddannelse, er det lige så meget en chance for at overbevise sig selv og sin overbeskyttende familie om, at hun kan stå på egne ben.

Accused of a horrific crime and on the run, Kat has been rejected by everyone she loves. She's a fugitive from her past, flitting from town to town with nothing but the clothes on her back - until she meets a man who literally stops her in her tracks.

Ihr neuester Fall führt Dr. Russel Owen und sein Team zur New Yorker Comic Con. Der erfolgreiche Comickünstler Silas Robinson, Erfinder des Superhelden "Asphalt Boy", stürzte aus einem Fenster des Convention-Hotels in den Tod. Suizid oder Mord? Die Spurenlage ist unklar, noch dazu gibt es eine Reihe an Verdächtigen. Die Rechtsmediziner des NYPD haben wieder einmal alle Hände voll zu tun.

An accidental death, and the cover-up that follows, sparks a dark series of events that reverberates through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck, a kill that could make the difference between meat for the winter and an...

L’écrivain néerlandais Thomas Helder vient de mourir dans la fleur de l’âge. Après la cérémonie, ses proches se rassemblent dans la maison de famille de sa mère, au coeur de l’Aubrac, où il passait ses étés d’enfance, où il a voulu mourir, comme son meilleur ami Jean avant lui. Au centre de cette assemblée, se trouve sa plus ancienne amie, Margaux Chanet, la soeur de Jean, architecte française renommée, disparue sans un mot, d’un jour à l’autre, des années auparavant, et restée obstinément absente jusqu’à ce soir de deuil.

Brought to you by Penguin. The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As...