Resultados para "Mathilde" en Narrativa literaria

Writing to her only friend from her deathbed, Mathilda finally reveals the history that led to her isolated life of despairing melancholy. Of her mother dying in childbirth, her father's confession of his incestuous desire and subsequent suicide, and her relationship with a handsome young poet that fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The haunting and relentlessly self-examining voice of Mary Shelley's protagonist is a bare narrative of trauma of a brave woman's failed search for love, atonement, and redemption.

Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. She seeks clues in Ma's cooking when she's not fighting other battles—being a bursary girl at an elite school and facing racial taunts from the bus uncle. Then her meddlesome grandmother moves in, installing a portrait of a watchful Sikh guru and a new set of house rules. Old secrets begin to surface but can Pin handle learning the truth?

In the fight for independence, one young woman seeks freedom for herself. Born an orphan with an unlucky blemish under her eye, Big Mole is stuck running an ornamental fish shop with her roguish boyfriend Hong. When their friend is killed in cold blood on his first day as a secret society gangster, Hong forms a band of brothers and swears ruthless revenge. Big Mole finds herself reeled into a brutal mass murder and dangerous affection for ex-spider boy Kwang, with the colonial police and local investigators hot on their heels.

Abigail Lompré n'est pas retournée en Alaska depuis dix ans. L'île du Prince-de-Galles est belle, brute et sauvage, mais elle l'a fuie à l'adolescence pour rejoindre sa grand-mère paternelle à Paris, laissant derrière elle un père qu'elle aimait profondément et une mère avec qui elle ne s'est jamais entendue. Pourtant, aujourd'hui, c'est bien pour Emma qu'Abby est de retour. Pierre est mort et elle sait que son devoir est de ramener en France la seule famille qui lui reste, qu'importe leurs désaccords passés.

Mona vil være helt perfekt. Som en Barbiedukke. Som hende Lulu på gratis-postkortene på caféerne. Som pigerne i tv-reklamer. Mona sparer sammen, så plastikkirurger, tandlæger og andre eksperter kan gøre deres. Dernæst vil hun finde den perfekte kæreste og få det perfekte liv. Og hun skyer intet middel, heller ikke da hun i sidste øjeblik møder en forhindring, som kun vil gå væk, hvis man rydder den af vejen. Mette Thomsen (f. 1970) debuterede som forfatter i 1994 med `Af en superhelts bekendelser‘ og fulgte året efter op med den senmodernistiske roman `Plastic‘.

Une ode merveilleuse à la lecture et à l'imagination faisant écho au "Petit Prince"... Rintarô Natsuki, lycéen flegmatique, est sur le point de fermer la librairie héritée de son grand-père quand il reçoit une visite inattendue. Au milieu des livres, il découvre un gros chat brun tigré, un chat qui parle ! Et ce félin exprime une requête plutôt inhabituelle : il demande - ou plutôt exige - l'aide de l'adolescent pour aller sauver des livres.

Mt. Clemens, Michigan, 1887. Seventeen and headstrong, with marriage on her mind, Maggie is sure she has found her one true love. But when she collides head-on with betrayal, overwhelming loss, and ill-treatment, her life unravels. In a time when women had few rights, Maggie rises above adversity through rare determination and grit, becoming an independent woman ahead of her time. Yet before she can truly find peace, one heartbreaking, life-altering decision remains.

"HIMMELSTORMERE" er en gribende roman om to uforglemmelige kvinder, hvis livsvalg og skæbner elegant flettes sammen på tværs af århundreder og kontinenter. Det er en roman, der med dyb empati udforsker, hvordan man kan forsone sig med, hvem man selv er, og finde ud af at leve sit liv, så man ikke bliver offer for ydre omstændigheder.