Resultados para "Sand" en Narrativa literaria

París, 1831. Una joven vestida de hombre entra en la redacción del diario Le Figaro. Ha dejado atrás sus orígenes nobles y un matrimonio infeliz y está preparada para un nuevo comienzo. Las palabras son la gran pasión de George: con su joven amante, Jules, conoce la vida del París bohemio y juntos escriben su primera novela. Pero George espera más de la vida, es valiente e inquisitiva, siempre dispuesta a romper tabúes.

Historien om en ung kvinde, der lever sit liv indhyllet i et mørke bestående af alkoholmisbrug og prostitution. Men alt dette lader til at ændre sig, da hun møder en ældre herre, der kan være hendes redning. Men han har sin egen fortid, og den truer med at ødelægge deres fælles fremtid. Pernille Højmark (f. 1960) er en dansk sanger, skuespillerinde og forfatter. Hun er uddannet skuespiller fra Skuespillerskolen ved Aarhus Teater i 1983, og har haft flere store roller i film og på tv.

"På mange måder var han dybt uenig med hende i hendes systematiske indretning af tilværelsens store og små ting, men han plejede ikke at diskutere det. Slet ikke når ungerne hørte det, han vidste at de med årvågne ører opfattede den uskyldigste og mest forsonlige diskussion som skænderi eller optakt til ragnarok og boschske rædsler." Kaj og Lotte har sådan set haft et godt ægteskab, og de har fået de børn ud af det, som det hele tiden har været planen, de skulle have.

Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp. Kate and Naema promise to help each other, but the war soon strains their intentions. Like any soldier, Kate must face the daily threats of combat duty, but as a woman, she is in equal danger from the predatory men in her unit.

Während in München Palästinenser des "Schwarzen September" das Olympische Dorf überfallen, geschehen in der Sahara mysteriöse Dinge...

On a dark night in Lusaka, Zambia, an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. In shock, she cannot speak. Her identity is a mystery. Where did she come from? Was the attack a random street crime or a premeditated act? The girl's case is taken up by Zoe Fleming, a human rights lawyer working in Africa. A betrayal in her own past gives the girl's plight a special resonance for Zoe, and she is determined to find the perpetrator and seek justice. Also investigating on behalf of the Zambian police is Joseph Kabuta. At first reluctant to work together, they team up.

« Pauline » de George Sand est une histoire de passion et de révolution dans la France du XIXe siècle. Sur fond de bouleversements politiques, le roman retrace le parcours de Pauline, une femme dont la fougue et la quête incessante de justice défient les contraintes de son époque.

"פרנסואה העזובי" הוא סיפור אהבה רב תהפוכות, אהבת אם ובנה ואהבת גבר ואישה על רקע חיי הכפר בצרפת של אמצע המאה התשע-עשרה, ואורחות חיים שלא השתנו זה מאות בשנים. זהו אחד...

Early in The Sweetness, an inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of sliced lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their ghetto. "Something sour to remind me of the sweetness," she tells her, setting the theme for what they must remember to survive. Set during World War II, the novel is the parallel tale of two Jewish girls, cousins, living on separate continents, whose strikingly different lives ultimately converge.

Widower Sir Adam Wilson has put off remarrying in favor of seeing to his textile business and the tenants farmers who work the fields. At thirty-five and a father of a young daughter, he can no longer ignore his need for an heir. When he discovers how his grandfather found his Lady Wilson, he decides to do the same—run a bride contest at the local fair.

Dutch couple Sarie and Barend Vervoort celebrate their retirement by buying a camper van and hitting the road. Their intention is to drive around Europe, fulfilling Sarie's wanderlust and returning to some of the places they traveled together when they first met, in 1968. But then Sarie falls seriously ill - diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The tragic discovery forces them to completely redefine their trip.

Racer McKay is a broody bastard. From the moment I met him, he's been rude, irritable, and unbearable. And worse? He's broke. A contractor working to remodel my parents pool house for extra cash, he stomps around in those clunky construction boots with his tool belt wrapped around his narrow waist, and a chip on his shoulder. Racer McKay is also infuriatingly...sexy as hell. I want to take that pencil tucked behind his ear, and draw lazy lines slowly up and down his body all the while wanting to strangle him at the same time.

Daniel Ahearn lives a quiet, solitary existence in a seaside New England town. Forty years ago, following a shocking act of impulsive violence on his part, his daughter, Susan, was ripped from his arms by police. Now in her 40s, Susan still suffers from the trauma of a night she doesn’t remember, as she struggles to feel settled, to love a man, and create something that lasts. Lois, her maternal grandmother who raised her, tries to find peace in her antique shop in a quaint Florida town but cannot escape her own anger, bitterness, and fear.

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's elegant story details a New Year's Eve gathering in Dublin that is so evocative and beautiful that it prompts the protagonist's wife to make a shocking revelation to her husband—closing the story with an emotionally powerful epiphany that is unsurpassed in modern literature.

This collection of eight stories paints a vivid image of people who don't do what you might expect them to living on the fringes in America. Not stories of triumph over adversity but something completely other. Described in language that is brilliantly sardonic, Woods' characters return repeatedly to places where they don't belong - often the places where they were born. In the background are the endless American wars and occupations and too many early deaths of friends and family. This is fiction that is fresh and of the moment, even as it is timeless.

Country music superstar Clayton Meyers and entrepreneur Kate Meyers may seem like they have everything they ever wanted: fame, riches, and the lifestyle to match. From the outside, they do. Their life in Nashville looks like paradise. But in reality, their relationship has gone cold. Like ships passing in the night, they now live like strangers, questioning whether the other cares anymore.

When James Kreider receives the devastating news his life is shortened from cancer, he is immediately filled with shock and disbelief. At 60 years, Jim is too young to die and believes he has a whole life ahead of him. When the reality of his impending demise sinks in, Jim methodically prepares for his final days, including trying to heal old wounds. With a dash of life's regrets and unfinished business, Jim's hours are spent pondering the legacy he will leave for his friends and children.

Eines Abends ist er einfach da. Baptiste, der scheue, junge Mann, von dem niemand in der verschlafenen Ortschaft in der Provence weiß, woher er gekommen ist. Und er scheint dort sein Glück zu finden, bis Jahrzehnte später seine verschwiegene Vergangenheit aufersteht. Mit aller Macht ziehen ihn die Erlebnisse vergangener Tage wieder in ihren Bann, und mit ihnen die Erinnerungen an Abda, das längst vergessene Frauengefängnis in der algerischen Wüste.

WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE “A triumph of literature.”—Financial Times “Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride.”—BookPage “A breath of fresh air.”—Guardian A playful, feminist, and utterly original...

The Kingdom of Sand features a nameless narrator who has survived the death of his friends to AIDS and the loss of his parents to old age and tragedy. Now he must witness the slow demise of a friend just a shade older than he is. Semi-anonymous sexual encounters, gallows humor, and classic films are his tools for staving off the dying of the light. In prose that’s in turn mordantly funny and hauntingly elegiac, Andrew Holleran takes the listener from a video porn shop off Route 301 to the memory of parties in Washington, DC.