Resultados para "It's Over" en Literatura de género

David knew that there would come a time when he would have to meet Salvatore Ruiz. After all, Toledo is a small city and they had several mutual friends and acquaintances. However, David did not expect to meet the man at Matías's flat, and certainly not on a Friday evening for one of their all-night card sessions.

During the Christmas holidays in 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami that devastates fourteen countries. Two couples from Singapore are vacationing in Phuket when the tsunami strikes. Alternating between the aftermath of the catastrophe and past events that led these characters to that fateful moment, Now That It's Over weaves a tapestry of causality and regret, and chronicles the physical and emotional wreckage wrought by natural and manmade disasters.

Coming of age in Prague in the 1930s, Lena Kulkova is inspired by the left-wing activists who resist the rise of fascism. She meets Otto, a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, and follows him to Paris to work for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. As the war in Spain ends and a far greater war engulfs the continent, Lena gets stuck in Paris with no news from her Jewish family, including her beloved baby sister, left behind in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Otto, meanwhile, has fled to a village in England, and urges Lena to join him, but she can’t obtain a visa.

What do you do when everything falls apart? Juho Lee was once the definition of success. A proud Korean immigrant, he built a thriving restaurant business in California, raised a son who became a doctor, and a daughter who graduated from Harvard Law. From the outside, he had everything. But when his business collapses and his savings disappear, Juho finds himself alone, ashamed, and ready to end it all. On a cold November morning, he sets out to say his final goodbye—until a roadside church sign changes his path. “It’s not over yet.

Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.

In the Wilderness is a poignant short novel that follows the story of a man who loses everything and finds himself wandering through the emotional wilderness of life. Set in California, this fictional tale explores themes of disappointment, betrayal, grief—and, ultimately, the rediscovery of purpose through faith.