Resultados para "Sin" en Narrativa literaria

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.

"Una corazonada obsesiona a Fátima Dávalos para emprender una audaz búsqueda que la llevará a desafiar la violencia organizada de México, cuyo poder traspasa todo tipo de fronteras. Su meta es saber cuál ha sido el destino de su jefe, el ortopedista Román Arzamendi, involucrado a su pesar...

"12 historias, fuertes y desconcertantes, personajes que provocan rechazo y ternura. Mauricio Ruíz nos relata 12 historias por demás fuertes y desconcertantes, con diversas temáticas, con tendencia a lo oscuro, a lo sórdido. Van desde la traición de una amiga, hasta la toma de conciencia...

Leaving the Country of Sin is a tale of Rafferty, who was saved as a teenager from delinquency and slapped into a six-year hitch in the army to avoid jail. Early on, his anger and fierce resolve catch the attention of an officer in charge of a small cadre of soldiers who provide unique, subdued solutions to problems too sensitive for more obvious snipers or commandos. Later, Rafferty, having determined to retire on Galveston Island, which he had visited as a child with his uncle, hovers between seeing his past deeds as a patriotic service and just another form of murder.

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness. Sutpen was a man...

Me llamo Isa Pi. Mido 1'80. Pi significa pino. La tónica habitual es que sobrepase una cabeza a más de la mitad de los varones autóctonos. De adolescente, tenía la esperanza de que el chico que me gustaba todavía no hubiera dado el estirón, ahora ya no albergo ese tipo de ilusiones con los...

Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans.

THE PROMISE is an intense, fast-paced and gripping Scandinavian thriller told in four parts.

In Herstedvester Prison sits a frustrated and restless Nina with her young protégée, Gabriela. They’re both on the run from an ominous dark past that’s constantly on their heels. When Nina is released on parole, she has difficulty enjoying her newfound freedom. Firstly, because she has to leave the defenseless Gabriela in prison, and secondly, because Nina’s new legal guardian definitely isn’t to her liking ...

“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post). The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave...

Sina Klein hat mit ihrem Lyrikdebüt narkotische kirschen 2014 für einiges Aufsehen gesorgt. – „Die Worte wirken wie Zutaten in einem alchemistischen Labor, die zu Zaubersprüchen zusammengefügt werden und mit denen die verborgenen Potentiale der Dinge und Elemente zum Vorschein geholt werden könnten“, schrieb Felix Schiller (Fix­poetry).

Young Jawad, born to a traditional Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, in defiance of his father's wishes and determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise.

Paris, 1720. Die psychiatrische Anstalt Salpêtrière ist ein überfülltes Sammelbecken für Frauen, die nicht in die Gesellschaft passen. Aus ihren Reihen werden "Freiwillige" ans andere Ende der Welt verschifft, um dort den Fortbestand der französischen Kolonie La Louisiane zu sichern. Unter ihnen sind drei Freundinnen , durch das Schicksal zusammengeführt: die zwölfjährige Charlotte, eine stumme Waise. Pétronille, eine enterbte Adelige mit einem riesigen Muttermal im Gesicht. Und Geneviève, eine Engelmacherin, die Frauen liebt.

When Shaindel Pogrebiski’s life is shattered and uprooted by the senseless looting and murder that follow the civil war in Ukraine in 1919, she needs to figure out how to survive. With only her young daughter, Shaindel must flee the turmoil. But where will she go? While the world seems indifferent to the bloodbath upending Shaindel’s homeland, who will take in the refugees fleeing for their lives?