Resultados para "Olga" en Narrativa literaria

Una novela única, ligera y honda a la vez, que indaga en las posibilidades del género para hablar sobre el cuerpo, el mundo y las estrategias siempre insuficientes con que intentamos cartografiarlos. Al principio de Los errantes, la narradora esboza un autorretrato que es también una poética: "A todas luces yo carecía de ese gen que hace que en cuanto se detiene uno en un lugar por un tiempo más o menos largo, enseguida eche raíces. (...) Mi energía es generada por el movimiento.

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet.

Inés Sánchez Cruz, una poeta mexicana afincada como profesora de escritura creativa en Estados Unidos, llega a la Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid para impartir un taller de poesía e investigar un hallazgo reciente: el archivo familiar de Joaquín Amigo, uno de los amigos de Lorca, también asesinado violentamente y desaparecido al comienzo de la guerra civil.

Año 440 a.C. El político y orador Pericles solicita la ayuda de la sacerdotisa Diotima de Mantinea para librar a Atenas de la peste. Durante la ceremonia de purificación, un Sócrates de treinta años queda fascinado con la sabiduría de esta mujer. En seguida, el filósofo descubrirá a través de sus diálogos con Diotima que no sabe nada sobre el amor y empezará a conocer de la mano de la sacerdotisa los misterios de Eros.

“Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”—Booklist “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”—Evening Standard...

Encuentras de todo, y todo cabe, en los recovecos de la bolsa de una mujer. Del mismo modo, toda historia, todo mundo narrable, cabe en una prosa concisa, como es el caso. La bolsa en este libro es un "multiverso": se hallan cosas tan comunes como el chicle de Susanita —la hija—, las...

Nelle città di provincia le ragazze perbene si assomigliano tutte. Per sottrarsi a un futuro già raccontato, Clara si trasferisce a Londra, dove insegna italiano a ricchi expat e si trova intrappolata nel vortice degli incontri online. Ma il matrimonio della bellissima cugina Rossella, inseparabile compagna d'infanzia diventata poi modella di abiti da sposa, la richiama a Caserta.

The protagonist, Jesús, is ugly. Extraordinarily ugly. He is so ugly that his friends and relatives are convinced that behind that ugliness there must be something else. A malefic power or possibly a momentous fate. The truth is that fairly special things happen wherever Jesús is. His biological father is a mystery. His half-sister is a child-prodigy who excels at everything she does, his mother becomes the president of the country, his best-friend Vero is a computer tycoon, his brother-in-law also makes it in politics...But for all the success around him he still feels unsettled.

"A ascuns Cartea într-un loc ce i s-a părut creat în acest scop: într-un defileu de munte, unde pustnici în căutarea singurătăţii îşi construiseră o mică mănăstire. Lor le-a încredinţat Cartea, promiţîndu-şi că se va întoarce abia după ce îi va fi pregătit pe oameni...

Trei femei singure, care par mereu că fug de ceilalți, își caută împlinirea emoțională. Experiențele prin care trec sînt obișnuite, anodine, și atunci încercările de a se regăsi încep din nou, în aceeași singurătate: vrînd cu orice chip recunoașterea individualității lor...

Simona, una mujer en la mitad de sus cuarenta, sufre la muerte de su madre, una figura tutelar en su vida que, hasta cierto punto, era determinante para la construcción de su identidad. Este suceso coincide con la llegada de un amor inesperado a su vida. Nora, una fotógrafa de clase acomodada, hace tambalear sus certezas y la fortaleza que Simona creía tener. Así se dispara una travesía en la que conviven, en simultáneo, las dos acepciones del cortejo para crear una alegoría acerca de los ciclos de inicios, finales, pero sobre todo de transformaciones.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx) "A magnificent writer." — Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning...

When Hammoudi, a young surgeon based in Paris, returns to Syria to renew his passport, he only expects to stay there a few days. But the authorities refuse to let him leave, and Hammoudi finds himself caught up in the fight against the regime. Meanwhile, budding actress Amal has also joined the protests against the government and her own father, by whom she feels betrayed. Realizing that they will never again be safe in their homeland, Amal and her boyfriend Youssef decide to flee to Europe in a desperate bid to survive.

Unfolding on the vast grasslands of the steppes of Kazakhstan before its independence from the USSR, this haunting novel limns the struggles of the world through the eyes of Nasyr, a simple fisherman and village elder, and his resolute son, Kakharman. Both father and son confront the terrible future that is coming to the poisoned Aral Sea.

PREMIO DE LITERATURA DE LA UNIÓN EUROPEA 2015 Perdón es una intensa novela sobre el amor, el autoengaño y los secretos peligrosos. Dos jóvenes se encuentran y se enamoran a primera vista. Él es un estudiante de Filosofía que impresiona profundamente a la chica por su elaborado discurso...

Lous zweiter Ehemann ist eine Trophäe – das muss selbst ihre Mutter anerkennen. Sergej ist Pianist und er ist jüdisch, genau wie Lou. Trotzdem ist ihre Tochter Rosa noch nie in einer Synagoge gewesen – eine ganz normale jüdische Familie in Berlin. Aber sind sie noch eine Familie, und was ist das überhaupt? Um das herauszufinden, folgt Lou der Einladung zum 90. Geburtstag ihrer Tante. In einem abgehalfterten Ressort auf Gran Canaria trifft der ganze ex-sowjetische Clan aus Israel zusammen, verbunden nur noch durch wechselseitige Missgunst.

Olga Master's debut novel - immediately hailed for her powerful and original fiction. Loving Daughters is a brilliant, unsentimental portrait of two sisters - one artistic and restless, the other houseproud, her father's favourite. The entry of an eligible young man into their lives creates a disturbing triangle of desire and rivalry.

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved...

A beautifully detailed, emotionally intense story by a Ukrainian writer Olga Kobylanska describes a relationship between three roommates - three very different young women, whose diverse personalities and life goals causes their union to oscillate wildly between the jarring dissonance and the perfect harmony.

1913, Niederschlesien. Am Fuße der Berge steht ein Sanatorium für Lungenkrankheiten. Mieczysław, Student aus Lemberg, hofft, dass eine neuartige Behandlung seine Schwindsucht heilen wird. Wie auf Thomas Manns »Zauberberg« sprechen die versammelten Kranken aus ganz Europa unermüdlich miteinander – mit Vorliebe bei einem Gläschen Likör. Ob es Krieg geben werde in Europa, welche Staatsform die beste sei? Und darüber, dass die Frau des Pensionswirts gerade Selbstmord begangen hat.