Resultados para "In de val" en Literatura de género

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before.

NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO LITERARIO DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2021. Un matrimonio en crisis viaja en coche con sus dos hijos pequeños desde Nueva York hasta Arizona. Ambos son documentalistas y cada uno se concentra en un proyecto propio: él está tras los rastros de la última banda apache en...

Dé nieuwe scandi van bestsellerauteur Ulf Kvensler. Vlak voordat de telefoon gaat droomt Isak onrustig over zijn jeugd in Småland: over zwarte vogels, het meer en de ogen van zijn zusje Klara. Zij is samen met hun moeder omgekomen toen hun ouderlijk huis afbrandde. Sinds de brand heeft Isak zijn vader Fredrik, inmiddels een bekende kunstenaar, niet meer gezien. En nu belt zijn vader hem plotseling op. Zijn stem klinkt dringend als hij vraagt of Isak langs wil komen. Isak twijfelt. Maar als Fredrik vertelt dat hij stervende is én hem een grote som geld aanbiedt, kan hij moeilijk weerstand bieden.

Nel tranquillo borgo di Petraura, il ritrovamento di un corpo murato nella sacrestia della Chiesa di San Giovanni riporta a galla segreti sepolti da venticinque anni. Jack Del Giudice, ex poliziotto e investigatore privato, insieme alla sua eccentrica famiglia, si immerge in un'indagine che collega la vittima a un oscuro passato di droga, scomparse e poteri occulti. Mentre il maresciallo Giannetti cerca di tenere la verità sotto controllo, vecchi fantasmi tornano a tormentare il paese. Ma chi ha voluto seppellire il passato e perché?

Meet Dot and her friend Millie, who only communicates in catchphrases; Wendy Clapper, who thinks TV, credit cards, swimming pools and soup are nothing but trouble; and Jonathan Tudge, who just can't help putting his foot in it. You’ll also encounter the worst therapist in the world, the travel agent who won't let anyone go further than Lowestoft, a registered platitudopath, a bag lady turned sacred icon, and the furniture removal men who think they're on Antiques Roadshow.

The setting of the novel is the 1880s in the Badlands of Dakota Territory along the Little Missouri River. There is great excitement in the town of Medora (North Dakota) as young Theodore Roosevelt from New York plunges into the ranching business at the same time that a wealthy Frenchman, the Marquis de Mores, is investing three million dollars into building a slaughterhouse and the new town of Medora (named after his red haired wife).

Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Place to Call Home by Val Wood, read by Anne Dover. Ellen thought she’d always live in the remote, pretty coastal village where she grew up. After all, her husband, Harry, works on a farm where he’s guaranteed a job and home for life. But when...

Brought to you by Penguin. At only thirteen, Mikey Quinn is arrested for stealing a rabbit to feed his family. Despite his age, he's shown no mercy by the wealthy lawyer who sends him to prison. He returns home to find that his mother has died and his younger siblings taken into the workhouse...

1850: Beatrix Fawcett is just 18 when her father tells her she is to marry a stranger. Hesitant, but with little choice, she agrees to the match - with hope for a good husband in Charles and the surprising delight of a lovely Yorkshire house in which they are to live. As Beatrix sets to making the house a home, she falls in love with it and the countryside nearby. But she does not fall in love with her husband.... It's clear Charles has chosen her simply to meet the requirements of his inheritance and has little interest in his young wife.