Resultados para "Lucien" en Narrativa literaria

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

Nominalizat la International Dublin Literary Award, în 2019 Premiul special al cititorilor "Natalia Gorbaniewska", in cadrul Premiului Literar al Europei Centrale ANGELUS, Polonia, editia 2015 Matei Brunul a fost distins in anul 2012 cu Premiul literar "Augustin...

Prefata de Daniel Cristea-Enache Romanul are drept tema centrala ironia: fata de romanul clasic, fata de temele lui majore, fata de literatura, in general. Protagonistul, un tinar mereu in cautarea nefericirii, pentru a gasi motivatia autocompatimirii, este prins in diverse situatii ce...

"Lucian Dan Teodorovici e un maestru al circului suicidar, al bufonadelor patibulare. În pofida deriziunii însă, cartea lui Teodorovici e tristă, ca existenţialismul de cîrciumă şi gang. Tristeţe amărîtă şi sordidă, insidioasă ca o igrasie care-l îmbibă, finalmente, pe ipocritul...

Prefata de Luminita Marcu. "Povestirile sint absolut surprinzatoare prin umorul lor sec si negru, prin felul economicos in care sint scrise, prin morala (sociala) pe care o au bine incapsulata intr-o aparenta de gratuitate, de poveste spusa fara nici un scop, ba chiar intr-un fel nating...

O poveste reală despre încercarea de a supraviețui prin ficțiune, o narațiune alertă și acaparantă despre lumi care se construiesc acolo unde limitele organismului nu te lasă să ajungi. Romanul autobiografic al lui Teodorovici este locul în care, rînd pe rînd...

« Une place pour chaque chose et chaque chose à sa place. » Telle est la devise de Sarah, qui s'est efforcée de construire sa vie en accord avec ce principe simple, à force de Post-it et de to-do lists. Mais dans ce mécanisme en apparence bien huilé se cache un grain de sable qui pourrait tout faire basculer…

Unsprezece povesti in care dragostea e privita din unghiuri surprinzatoare si, in acelasi timp, unsprezece secvente ale unui roman construit pe o unica poveste, a unei iubiri ce nu-si gaseste ritmul. Lipsa comunicarii, tradarea, gelozia, angoasele si asteptarile, toate aceste stari, puse sub...

Lucie refuse de patauger dans une vie sans refrain, sans envol, sans idéal. Elle observe le monde avec enchantement. Nos souffrances l'émeuvent, elle en parle, toujours pour les sublimer en refusant l'égoïsme ambiant. Comme une ado qui hurle sa joie de vivre, elle ouvre grand ses bras au monde. Cécile le Ray a toujours aimé le chant, les mots, le monde de l'enfance et sa poésie. Elle publie ses premiers contes pour enfants, puis se lance dans l'opéra. Elle éprouve alors le bonheur infini de communiquer à fleur de peau avec le public.

Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute; carefully targeting powerful, high-profile men - who she then drugs and takes incriminating photos of to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organisation she's working for and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she doesn't have to reveal anything about her identity. But when a figure from Yurika's past emerges, she finds herself in a trap that she can’t seem to find a way out of....

Leah Smith finally has everything she has ever wanted. Except she doesn't. Her marriage feels more like a loan than a lifelong commitment, and the image she has worked so hard to build is fraying before her eyes. With a new role and a past full of secrets, Leah must decide how far she is willing to go to keep what she has stolen.

Only a year ago Isabel Moore was married, the object of adoration of her 10-year-old daughter, and thought she knew everything about her wild, extravagant, beloved best friend, Josie. But in that one short year: her husband moved out and rented his own apartment; her daughter grew into a moody insomniac; and Josie - impulsive, funny, secretive Josie - was killed behind the wheel in a single-car accident.

West of New Orleans among a few small Gulf islands lies the Isle aux Chiens, a tiny, impoverished strip of land burdened by intolerable heat and roaming packs of wild dogs. Here a handful of Creole families eke out a meager existence by fishing the Gulf waters. Such is the fate of Al Landry and his seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie. All Annie has ever known is the wild sea, but she longs for other people and places, including the glamor of life in the Big Easy.

The aftermath of a car accident. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

Lucie est verte de rage : spoliée et abandonnée par ses enfants à la mort de son mari, elle se retrouve dans un appartement minuscule ! Finie la grande vie... Jusqu'à ce qu'elle rencontre le bel Henri. Quand son cher époux est mort, Lucie ne s'attendait certainement pas à hériter de... ses dettes. Ses enfants ne lui parlent plus (il faut dire qu'elle n'a jamais pu retenir le prénom de ses petits-enfants) et, ruinée, elle est obligée de déménager ! En plus, ses nouveaux voisins sont insupportables - surtout le petit Hyppolite, un vrai pot de colle.

Alina a grandi sans attaches, traçant seule son chemin. À Paris, de retour dans son modeste appartement après avoir été renvoyée de son travail, elle découvre une mystérieuse enveloppe — une invitation au mariage le plus fastueux de Venise, accompagnée d'une phrase troublante : « La véritable Alina se trouve là-bas. » Désespérée et intriguée, elle décide de s'y rendre. Mais derrière les ors des palais vénitiens, c'est un univers impitoyable qui l'attend : celui des Rochefort, une famille où les secrets valent plus que l'amour et où l'ambition des uns peut briser la vie des autres.

The haunting new folk horror novel from Lucie McKnight Hardy 'All my fears have vanished, and I realise now that my dreams were not nightmares but a sign of what was to come, how this will end. An inevitability.' Things were looking up for Astrid Aspden and her partner, Kit, until their house...

An Asian/Pacific American Award Honor Book A USA TODAY bestseller One of NPR's 2024 "Books We Love" A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2024 A New York Public Library Best Book of 2024 From acclaimed author Makiia Lucier, a dazzling, romantic fantasy inspired by...

All her life, Susan's loved ones have been hiding a terrible secret from her: If she thinks too hard, her head will explode. Luckily, her devoted boyfriend, anxious parents and fierce best friend are prepared to do whatever it takes to keep Susan safe in ignorant, thoughtless bliss. And until now, Susan has lived happily in a bubble of TV and takeaways, social media and small talk; anything to distract her from the spiralling thoughts that so often haunt the rest of us - thoughts that would be deadly for her.

Dismissed for misconduct from the Met’s Homicide Command after refusing to follow orders, unable to pay her bills (or hold down a relationship), Detective Inspector Robin Lyons has no choice but to take her teenage daughter Lennie and move back in with her parents in the city she thought she’d escaped forever at 18. In Birmingham, sharing a bunkbed with Lennie and navigating the stormy relationship with her mother, Robin works as a benefit-fraud investigator - to the delight of those wanting to see her cut down to size.