Resultados para "Ray" en Narrativa literaria

Una meditación vigorizante sobre la fama y la celebridad, y el poder redentor y curativo del arte; un retrato de los estragos de la decepción y el divorcio; una conmovedora consideración de los ritos de paternidad y virilidad; una novela empapada de rabia y sexo, anhelo y desesperación; y una apasionada carta de amor al mundo del teatro, A Bright Ray of Darkness muestra los dones de Ethan Hawke como novelista como nunca antes.

La novela, que tiene su origen en un relato inédito escrito hace algunos años, narra una historia de amistad truncada entre dos personajes de distinta condición social – un pijo universitario e irresponsable y un chico de barrio, simpático y manipulador, que trabaja como guardia de...

Que la vida es jodida ya lo sabemos todos. Káiser, de 17 años, camello de profesión y DJ por vocación, acaba de descubrirlo. A través de sus días gastados, sus noches interminables y sus constantes desfases aderezados con droga y música electrónica recorremos el Madrid de finales de los...

A los veinticuatro años, Fidel Centella se va de casa para compartir piso con tres amigos, apodados los Rayos. Es quizá el primer paso recto hacia la adultez, aunque la historia se centra en la desorientación de la juventud, así como en todo lo que nos pasa cuando no parece pasar nada, como aventuras mínimas en una vivienda caótica, corrupciones urbanas, dilemas sentimentales y hasta un conflicto familiar.

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley! Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its...

The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes—a "witty, wise, and heartfelt novel" (Washington Post) about art and love, fame and heartbreak from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the...

La guerra dura una década y nadie sabe a ciencia cierta cómo transcurre, qué bando fue el agresor y cuál el agredido. En la comarca, la vida ha continuado entre el temor a la delación y la añoranza de los que fueron al frente.

Georg Morgenstern ist ein einsamer alter Mann, der praktisch ohne Kontakt zur Außenwelt in seiner kleinen Wohnung lebt. Am Küchenfenster denkt er über sein langes Leben nach, das von Abenteuern aber auch von Schicksalsschlägen geprägt wurde, die sich kein Mensch wünschen würde. Niemand ahnt etwas von seinem dunklen Geheimnis. Nicht einmal er selbst. Gefühlvolle und berührende Geschichte zum gleichnamigen Instrumental-Album. Ein wunderschön illustriertes Booklet liegt dieser Edition ebenfalls bei.

From the winner of the National Book Foundations' 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters comes a "sweet, funny … thought–provoking" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) collection of short stories. As in his most recent major fiction collections, One More for the Road (1999)...

El narrador de esta historia despierta en una cama que no reconoce en una habitación que no siente propia. Está amaneciendo y no sabe dónde está, ni que le impide levantarse, le cuesta abrir los ojos e identificar los ruidos y las voces que llegan desde el exterior. En su duermevela, trata de engarzar un recuerdo con otro hasta componer un mosaico en el que solo una constante parece anclarlo a la realidad: la relación que le une a Elisa y Tim.

Norway, 1940. Nazis pour into Oslo, a shroud of dread looms over the city, and eighteen-year-old Ingrid Solberg fears the worst. Under German rule, harsh rationing and the exorbitant cost of medicine threaten the lives of many, including Ingrid’s mother. And when Ingrid meets a young SS officer, she’s forced to make a desperate choice. Seventy years later, after the death of Ingrid in her adopted country of Canada, her son, Arnold, finds a disturbing letter in her belongings. He embarks on a journey to Oslo to understand his family’s history....

The Lord Nelson Tavern: a Halifax watering hole in the early 1960s. The group of young university students who hang out there - a ramshackle coterie of aspiring artists, economists, poets, and philosophers - come together to gossip and ponder the big questions of art and life, all the while pining after the vain and untouchable Francesca. Though these friends soon drift apart, their early rivalries, jealousies, and conquests will continue to reverberate.

Based on folklore, legends and myths, and backed by meticulous research, Citadel of Love is set in Odisha of the 13th century - considered the state’s golden age, when the Konark temple was being built under King Narasimha Deva’s patronage. A modern-day foreigner, Charles, arrives with his fiancée to study the Konark region. As he discovers palm leaf manuscripts and records tales that were handed down generations, he begins to have strange experiences.

Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back.

Sixty-four years ago, Susannah Morgan managed to flee the horrors of the Holocaust. But the memories of that childhood ordeal have proven impossible to sweep away. For most of her new life spent settled in sleepy North Carolina, the flashbacks have been a lonely obsession - one she has hidden from her family, and about which her heart is torn. Because for all the pain and the cruelty of those terrible years, she harbours sweet memories too, of unexpected friends who risked their own lives in order to save hers.

Ukraine, 1923. On a small farm, two boys are born within days of each other, both Ukrainian, one Jewish. Mykhail and Asher grow up inseparable, together finding friendship, adventure and escape from the harshness of Russian rule. But after Asher’s family flees to Warsaw, their worlds are torn to shreds by the Second World War. The war brings cruelty to both boys. Although Asher finds love in Warsaw, the city is far from the haven his family sought; meanwhile Mykhail becomes a victim of the bitter struggle for Ukraine. But worse follows, in the shape of the Treblinka death camp.

Stranger in Black is about a woman, deserted by her husband who has become a gunfighter, and her subsequent difficulties in raising two boys on her own.

Nicole Sutton’s world has been turned upside down. Sixteen and suffering the fallout of a devastating family tragedy, she is forced to move away from her London home to the quiet town of Henley - and a new life she never wanted nor expected. In the dusty cellar of her strange new house, Nicole stumbles upon a worn old journal left behind by a previous occupant. Inside, through the eyes of a soldier named Mac, she finds herself drawn into a brutally honest memoir of the horrors of war and Auschwitz - and of the life and love Mac had to leave behind.

Shuggie Boyle is a changed man. Which is why, after serving four years for armed robbery, he's skipped his licence and jacked a pensioner's car. He is heading back to his ex-girlfriend’s house to retrieve the stash from the robbery. Happiness for Shuggie is only a few grand and a few thousand miles away - the journey from California (in Falkirk) to California (in America).

Héroes cuenta la historia de un chico que se encierra en su habitación para vivir fuera de un mundo sin alicientes y dentro de las canciones. Una chica rubia, amigos, viajes que le llevan lejos de lo que no quiere ver... todo está en ese cuarto, ese territorio propio en el que él está siempre solo. En el exterior, las cosas ya no son como le gustarían, no le interesa la madurez. Es una estrella que únicamente saldrá convertido en un ángel.