Resultados para "Tin" en Narrativa literaria

 Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of 10 in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now 25 and facing the future she has built for herself, as well as the prospect of a new generation, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors, which come to her in unstoppable, uncontainable waves. 

1916. Young artist Sam Burke is spared death by firing squad on the battlefields of France and brought to a remote castle by the Irish Sea. At the ‘Tin Nose Shop’, he is tasked with creating intricate masks to hide the mutilated faces of his fellow soldiers from the Front. While he tries to come to terms with the death of his best friend and the promise he failed to keep, Sam and the disfigured soldiers struggle to return to their former lives and their loved ones.

Kathy is a sixteen-year-old girl in the 1950s, who has been sexually abused by her uncle and eventually becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy. To avoid the disgrace of an illegitimate child, the family claimed the baby was stillborn, although Kathy is convinced that he was born alive.

Falling in love with him was easy. Staying in love? Well, that's proving to be a challenge . . . When my husband invited me to an evening gala, I was elated. We hadn't spent time together in ages. Finally, I thought he heard my complaints. But when he—the great Caspian Yearwood—was chosen to...

Tot canvia després d'un altre got d'absenta. Deixes el got damunt la taula, mires per la finestra i tens temps de veure una línia de llum que recorre fugaçment el carrer, il·lumina per un instant la roba estesa en un balcó i es clava al portal de casa. Darrere dels vidres encesos endevines les siluetes dels Nohisom, que es deixen engolir per la fosca de l'escala. Ara passen les cosines Tonell, que corren cap al teatre aferrades a la bossa.

Guillaume Musso, "romancierul preferat al Franței" (Lefigaro.fr), prezintă o poveste în care prima iubire influențează cursul întregii vieți, aventurându-se de pe acoperișurile din Paris până în însoritul San Francisco. Inima lui Gabrielle este sfâşiată între două feluri de...

"Oare de ce, atunci când ne regăsim, suntem năpădiți de regrete!? Cum este posibil să ne întâlnim sufletul pereche, să-l lăsăm apoi să plece-n lume!? Oare chiar suntem condamnați la eterna reîntoarcere, la Uroboros!? Întrebări clocotitoare de viață, un volum al regăsirii de...

'גרשין הוא הסופר הצעיר הטוב ביותר של זמננו לצד צ'כוב.' לב טולסטוי 'מאז ספרו הראשון, אני נדהם ממקוריותו המוחלטת ומכישרונו הבלתי ניתן לערעור. כסופר מבוגר המאוהב...

The beautiful and heartbreaking new novel from Sarah Winman, author of the international bestseller WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT. 'Her best novel to date' Observer 'An exquisitely crafted tale of love and loss' Guardian 'A marvel' Sunday Express 'Astoundingly beautiful' Matt Haig It begins with a...

Da Harold Fry, pensionist og gift med Maureen, modtager et brev fra en tidligere og nu døende kollega Queenie, ved han ikke, at han har taget hul på sit livs rejse: En 800 km lang vandring til fods fra Devon i Sydengland til det sydlige til Berwick-upon-Tweed i nord. Hans fravær får Maureen til at tænke over deres samliv, glæder og sorger, og gamle følelser vækkes til live igen. På sin vej op gennem England har Harold også tid til at reflektere over sit liv med Maureen. Harold deler sin historie om brevet til Queenie med de mennesker, han møder undervejs.

Da Arillas far dør, går det op for hende, at hun er fattig som en kirkerotte. Hun allierer sig med sin elegante Fætter, Harry, som, omend modstræbende, går med til at introducere hende for de højere kredse i London. Her håber hun at træffe en rig mand, der kan sikre hendes fremtid. For man kan ikke leve af kærlighed og kildevand - eller kan man? Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) var en engelsk forfatter til romantiske romaner, der er blevet solgt i adskillige millioner eksemplarer.

Ne "I racconti", di Franz Kafka, l’assurdo, la beffa, l’inganno, l’imponderabile della condizione umana, affiorano senza contaminare e appesantire...

En farverig og underholdende roman om Abelone, der kommer i huset på godset Bangsbo i Nordjylland. Godsejeren, Johan Knudsen, er en gæstfri og yderst liberal levemand, og Bangsbo er tilflugtssted for en lang række af 1890'ernes kunstnere, blandt andet Herman Bang, Gustav Wied, Betty Nansen, Thorvald Bindesbøll og L.A. Ring. Alt kan ske på Bangsbo: affærer, intriger, dueller, selvmord og spøgeri. Abelone suger til sig af det hele og mærker for første gang suset fra den store, nye verden.

Chosen as the Library of Congress's "Great Reads from Great Places" Michigan selection for 2023 "Moving and brave." —People Set against the wide open beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a wise, big hearted novel in which a young single mother and her ten-year-old daughter stand up to the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The audio edition of The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler. When young Janie Pike dies in a tragic accident, she leaves behind a family numbed with grief and torn with guilt and recrimination. In this compassionate and haunting novel Anne Tyler explores how each member of the...

In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine...

'Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your gardens and windows and hope. But water can be the foot of an elephant, the horns of a moose, a herd of buffalo running from a lion, water can...

এই উপন্যাসটি টানটান বিস্ময়ের, কল্পবিজ্ঞানের, যেখানে অন্য জগৎ, অন্য সময় পাঠককে ছুটিয়ে নিয়ে চলে. তিন হাজার দুই...

This lyrical runaway Swedish hit follows a reclusive, elderly couple who cross paths with a pair of twentysomething newcomers in a small mountain town, revealing an unexpected, shared history and the reclamation of a nearly extinct culture. Meet Máriddja: eccentric, eighty-five years old, and...

This is the story of my life as a young girl following Hannibal and his army from Carthage in North Africa to Iberia, and then over the Alps toward Rome. I never reached Rome, but then neither did Hannibal. I left him after the battle of Trebbia, taking with me his last remaining elephant, Obolus, and my friend, the slave girl, Tin Tin Ban Sunia. This book recounts the first month of our long journey.