Resultados para "Luther" en Novela histórica

Cho-Cho San (Butterfly), a young Japanese girl, marries Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, a young US Navy lieutenant and is denounced by her family for forsaking their ancestral religion. When he leaves her to return to his world, Butterfly confidently and patiently awaits his homecoming. Three years later, Pinkerton’s ship finally anchors in the harbor again, but Butterfly does not get the happy ending she was hoping for.

Mit Luthers Thesen verändert sich die Welt. Im Land gärt es – der Reichstag in Worms 1521 soll Klarheit bringen. Inmitten dieser turbulenten Zeit begegnen sich in Worms zwei junge Frauen: Mara, eine Christin von ungeklärter Herkunft, welche Speyer verlassen hat, nachdem sie zur heimlichen Mitwisserin eines geplanten Mordanschlages auf Luther wird und Nahel, eine Jüdin, die nach einem Pogrom gegen die Juden in Regensburg fliehen musste und nun ihre jüdische Identität aus Angst vor neuer Verfolgung leugnet.

Disillusioned columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the column's publication. While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint, the latter is abducted by two improbable but still dangerous white supremacists.

Moved by the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorenzo "Guts" Tolliver decides to abandon his career as a professional leg breaker and pursue a life of quiet moments and generous helpings of banana pudding in the company of his new, sensuous lover.

Der sprachgewaltige Erzähler Feridun Zaimoglu über Martin Luther. Anno Domini 1521: Martin Luther ist auf die Wartburg gebracht worden und in die Mönchszelle zurückgekehrt. Ausgerechnet ein katholischer Landsknecht soll ihn, den Geächteten, auf Befehl des Kurfürsten vor Anschlägen auf Leib und Leben schützen. Doch die Anfechtungen des alten Feindes, des Satans, stellen eine noch größere Gefahr dar. Mit klingender Sprache, erstaunlichem Kenntnisreichtum und dramatischer Zuspitzung erzählt Feridun Zaimoglu von einem großen Deutschen, einer Zeit im Umbruch und der Macht und Ohnmacht des Glaubens.

Imagine that an entire village of Black slaves is magically transformed into White people in order to free them from slavery. Seventeen-year-old Elijah is a tormented slave that is determined to be free or to die trying. His love for slave girl Seppi motivates him to plot their escape, but their ancestors have other plans to free the entire village, though they must make sacrifices. The harsh reality of slavery and the triumph of victory have a hefty cost. Life and blood are on the line. Not only will Elijah battle the slave masters, but also other dark forces await him.