Resultados para "The Tree" en Narrativa literaria

Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.

World War II is over, and a family mourning a son missing in action plants a memorial tree and tries to go on with their lives. When a storm blows down the tree, a devastating family secret is uprooted, setting the characters on a terrifying journey towards truth.

Celeste e Nadir non sono fratelli, non sono nemmeno parenti, non hanno una goccia di sangue in comune, eppure sono i due punti estremi di un'equazione che li lega indissolubilmente. A tenerli uniti è Pietro, fratello dell'una da parte di padre e dell'altro da parte di madre. Pietro, più grande di loro di quasi dieci anni, si divide tra le due famiglie ed entrambi i fratellini stravedono per lui. Celeste è con lui quando cade per la prima volta e, con un innocuo saltello dallo scivolo, si frattura un piede. Pochi mesi dopo è la volta di due dita, e poi di un polso.

As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women’s suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult.

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York...

In questo particolarissimo saggio dalle inclinazioni romanzesche, Alexandre Dumas condensa tutto il proprio amore per l’arte e per l'Italia. Nel 1840, incaricato di comporre un testo sulla Galleria degli Uffizi, Dumas finisce per creare un vivido affresco di tre protagonisti assoluti del Rinascimento: Michelangelo, Tiziano e Raffaello. In "Tre maestri", quindi, abbiamo il privilegio di assistere al dialogo fra un grande romanziere del XIX secolo e i suoi artisti prediletti, potendo contare su un rigoroso metodo di ricerca e sulla sensibilità estetica dell’autore.

Siena, inizio Novecento, una città che da un lato è ancora quella dei suoi palazzi medievali, dei vicoli che si inerpicano dividendosi nelle varie contrade, e dall'altro è una città che deve fare i conti con la modernità del nuovo secolo. Anche i tre fratelli Gambi - Giulio, Niccolò ed Enrico - devono fare i conti con i tempi che cambiano. Le loro condizioni di vita non sono più quelle degli anni precedenti, i soldi mancano e un tentativo di frode finito male precipiterà la situazione, facendo piombare la famiglia nella rovina definitiva.

"Tre croci" scritto nel 1918, è la storia dei tre fratelli Giulio, Niccolò e Enrico Gambi, titolari a Siena di una libreria antiquaria ereditata dal padre. Giulio ama la cultura ma non ha alcuna abilità negli affari; Niccolò nasconde la sua inettitudine dietro i piaceri della tavola; Enrico, incolto e screanzato, è il più abulico dei tre. Quando gli affari cominciano ad andare male, cominciano ad indebitarsi. La situazione declina a tal punto che addirittura firmano cambiali falsificando la firma di un loro amico. L'inevitabile rovescio finanziario getterà tutta la famiglia nella vergogna.

Negli ultimi giorni di un processo internazionale per crimini di guerra, un giovane sostituto procuratore si prepara a inchiodare il Mostro, un capo di Stato colpevole di genocidio. Mentre raccoglie i capi d'accusa si ritrova a fare i conti con l'idea stessa di responsabilità, e con le mille piccole, gigantesche colpe di cui è fatta la nostra vita. Tullio Avoledo, friulano, vive e lavora a Pordenone nell'ufficio legale di una banca.

"The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote "The Tree" early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. Such stories, he said, "if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else." The assessment of Lovecraft authority S. T.

At the age of 21, Sydney Grey returns to her quaint hometown of Stoney Creek and begins renovations on her childhood farm. When she discovers a set of journals written by her mother - presumed to have abandoned her family 20 years ago - a long-hidden mystery is uncovered, leading Sydney to fear that her mother’s disappearance was the result of foul play.

Although Sara's college degree provided her an out, she always knew she’d return home to the small logging community that is like family to her. But when she learns the forest around her can talk, Sara’s focus shifts from cutting down the trees to saving them. Soon she discovers a hidden world, and among the people who live there, she finds love. But as tensions between her conservation efforts and her community rise, the people she once called family become her biggest adversaries.

Under the Greenwood Tree, Hardy's second novel, was published in 1872 and became the first of his great series of Wessex novels. The book, subtitled A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, tells the endearing tale of a group of church musicians who accompany the hymns at the local Mellstock parish choir and we follow the fortunes of one of its member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new school mistress, Fancy Day.

Fourteen-year-old March Wong knows everything there is to know about trees. They are his passion and his obsession, even after his recent falls - and despite the state's threat to take him away from his mother if she can't keep him from getting hurt. But the young autistic boy cannot resist the captivating pull of the Pacific Northwest's lush forests just outside his back door.

Henry Dumas' fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom. Championed by Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Quincy Troupe, Dumas' books have long been out of print. All of his short fiction is collected here, for the first time, and includes several previously unpublished stories.

Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child, and the star-crossed pair fall in love. They are from different ethnic communities. They are also both girls.

Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, this moving, richly imagined novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a 13-year-old girl, whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village, hoping in this way to preserve both their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the post-revolutionary chaos that sweeps across their ancient land. Bahar's mother, after a tragic loss, embarks on a long, eventful journey in search of meaning in a world swept up in the post-revolutionary madness.

A young woman climbs the tallest tree in Istanbul’s centuries-old Gülhane Park, determined to live out the rest of her days there. Perched in an abandoned stork’s nest in a sanctuary of branches and leaves, she tries to make sense of the rising tide of violence in the world below. Torn between the desire to forget all that has happened and the need to remember, her story, and the stories of those around her, begins to unfold.

Thirty years ago, Martin Owenby came to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Now his existence revolves around cheap Scotch and weekend flings with equally damaged men. When he learns that his older brother, Leon, has gone missing, he must return to the Owenby farm in Solace Fork, North Carolina, to assist in the search. But that means facing a past filled with regrets, the family that never understood him, the girl whose heart he broke, and the best friend who has faithfully kept the home fires burning.

Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of the small town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible loss and their place in it. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl's story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her.