Resultados para "Lisa" en Narrativa literaria

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. With his mother gone, 11-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an "all-American boy".

Twenty-nine-year-old Riki is sick of her dead-end job, of struggling to get by ever since she moved to Tokyo from the country. So when someone offers her the chance to become a surrogate in return for a life-changing amount of money, it's hard to turn down. But how much of herself will she be forced to give away?

It is the late 15th century and a village healer in Russia called Laurus is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and desperate, he sets out on a journey in search of redemption. But this is no ordinary journey: it is one that spans ages and countries, and which brings him face-to-face with a host of unforgettable, eccentric characters and legendary creatures from the strangest medieval bestiaries.

Paris, a winter's night in 1983. She is sixteen years old, lost in unfamiliar streets. On a scrap of paper in her pocket is the address of a photographer, K, thirty years her senior. Almost four decades later, as her life and the world around her begin to unravel, the grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl of before. Set in Oslo, New York, and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a quest through layers of memory and oblivion.

Tora e Piccilli (province de Caserte), septembre 1942. Davide passe ses journées, et parfois ses nuits, avec les cochons dont il s'occupe. L'arrivée de 36 Juifs, envoyés dans le petit village par les autorités fascistes, changera définitivement leur vie. Davide, Teresa et Nicolas tissent des liens, explorant ensemble la campagne autour du village et l'univers inexprimé de leurs sentiments… jusqu'à ce que la guerre les sépare. Plus d'une décennie plus tard, Davide part à la recherche de ses amis perdus. Car rien ne l'a plus marqué que l'été 1942 avec Teresa et Nicolas.

An immersive, page-turning novel about surviving as a funny woman in the male-dominated world of comedy—and what happens when the most promising female star of her generation disappears. “An utterly addictive read.”—Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie In...

"I may have ended up more notorious than famous, but make no mistake: long before Aura Lockhart began commodifying her feminist rage ballads, I was the best–known person to come out of Keyhole, New Jersey." In 1977, twenty–six–year–old Lynda Boyle is desperate for fame and a way out of...

Nate y su madre han huido de casa: él solo tiene once años, pero sabe que tienen que escapar, esconderse, esfumarse. Todo irá bien, su madre se lo ha prometido. Se quedarán en una cabaña abandonada en medio del bosque, allí estarán a salvo. Sin embargo, cuando ella sale en busca de provisiones y no regresa, pasados los días, Nate empieza a preocuparse de veras. ¿Alguien les ha seguido? ¿Quizá estará también acechándolo a él?

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China—perfect for fans of Lisa See’s classics Snow...

Amandas största dröm håller på att gå i uppfyllelse. Jobbet på Stjärnströms och Stjärnströms, Sveriges bästa advokatfirma, har varit hennes mål så länge hon kan minnas. Nu är hon äntligen där och hennes karriär är på väg spikrakt uppåt. Vad mer kan man egentligen önska? Trots att Amanda har bestämt sig för att låta kärleken lämna plats åt karriären så dröjer det inte länge innan hon kastas rakt in i ett hett triangeldrama. På ena sidan står toppadvokaten och playern Thomas Stjärnström, och på den andra, den hunkige mäklaren Adam.

"Svaret på vad de flestas problem är var förvånansvärt enkelt. Andra människors existens." Det eviga mellanbarnet som ingen riktigt bryr sig om. Precis så har hela livet varit för Amalia. Hon har försökt hävda sig genom karriärvalen - först massös, sedan terapeut - utan att hitta rätt. Men i en session med en patient får hon plötsligt sitt livs idé.

Nell’s going back to school... but now she’s learning lessons of the heart. An uplifting and hilarious romantic comedy that will delight fans of Milly Johnson, Holly Martin and Heidi Swain Reception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she did until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. The roof’s full of holes, the back door’s hanging off and there’s a sheep in the front room...

The most ruthless ride-or-die women of Memphis saved their empire by nearly destroying the streets. But as unexpected new rivals rise and brutal secrets shatter lives, betrayal means winner rules all. Putting out chaos with gasoline is one play that even the women of the Dirty South can't control. One merciless kill vaults good-girl-gone-bad Ta'Shara into gangland's power elite - but an enemy she doesn't see is targeting everything she can't afford to lose.

Millard Lacouvy is a short, plain, fiercely independent prodigy in the male world of poker. She learns her craft in Depression-era Vancouver and then graduates to high-stakes games on the Canadian Pacific Railway. When the trains fail to satisfy either her ambition or her need for security, she goes to Bugsy Siegel’s Las Vegas. There she is haunted by the handsome conman she has known all her life, and learns that love can also be a game of chance. Along the way, Pasold gives us a rich and convincing historical portrait of Vancouver and Vegas in the ’40s.

London in the time of Queen Elizabeth I is a bustling place, its streets crowded with vendors selling goods from all over the world. In the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral, Alice Wood competes with other booksellers, hawking pamphlets, plays, and the latest poetry from the continent. It is a lonely life for a hardworking young widow, and she will soon put it aside. When a black-clad stranger visits, speaking in riddles and asking questions about her long-vanished son, Alice will be drawn into an adventure straight out of one of her faerie stories.

Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn' t resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, 30 years later, the reporter' s call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family - and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy.

"Slanger i græsset" er inddelt i to parallelle handlingsforløb, der begge har den unge pige Joli i centrum. I det ene handlingsforløb fortælles historien om den voldsomme og psykisk belastende hverdag i det nødhjælpsarbejde, som Joli gennemfører i et krigshærget land. Sideløbende fortælles om hendes svære familieliv hjemme i Danmark. Den danske forfatter Lise Andersen (f. 1945) har arbejdet som sundhedsplejerske i over 30 år og fik sin litterære debut i 1991 med digtsamlingen "Solpletter".

Nora didn't expect Hidden Lake Camp to be in a state of ruin—dock full of rotten boards, smashed windows, cabins falling apart. To her new husband, Paul, the camp is the past he'd just as soon bury. Nora agreed to drive north with him to get his elderly parents settled while he makes enough repairs to sell the property, which will only take a few months. The summer camp, however, and its deep lake have other plans. 

One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris. This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel.

Robert never quite feels at home with Cassie's family, a gang of eccentrics including a reptile smuggler, a worshipper of Osiris, and an old woman who believes her photographs can see into the future. When he breaks up with Cassie, she is so upset that she gives him the most terrible thing she can offer: an envelope of her grandmother's photos, which show in detail the path that Robert's life will take. At first, this vision of the future gives him strength - but soon it becomes a prison on glossy paper.