Resultados para "Vienna" en Literatura y ficción

Varcare il confine vicino a Metz, attraversare il Württemberg e la Baviera, raggiungere in treno Vienna e Budapest, proseguire a cavallo per la steppa russa, superare gli Urali e la Siberia, costeggiare il lago Bajkal e ridiscendere il fiume Amur fino all’Oceano. Poi, fermarsi a Sabirk ad aspettare una nave di contrabbandieri olandesi. È così che nel 1861 Hervé Joncour, che compra e vende bachi da seta, arriva in Giappone. È così che arriva al suo destino, che ha il volto di una ragazzina.

El Dr. Ho Fengshan, cónsul general de China, es destinado a Viena junto a su esposa estadounidense, Grace. A medida que la violencia contra los judíos se intensifica, el Dr. Ho se enfrenta a la difícil tarea de emitir miles de visas más para ayudar a los judíos a escapar de Viena antes de que sean deportados a los campos de concentración, de donde difícilmente saldrán con vida. Basada en una historia real extraordinaria, Escape de Viena narra los riesgos asumidos por almas valientes, y el amor y la amistad que construyeron y perdieron en su lucha contra un mal incalculable.

Winter in Vienna, 1902: a serial killer embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. In this second volume of the Liebermann Papers, Liebermann struggles with his own demons, Against a backdrop of mystery and terror.

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Vienna, 1870s. The world, as Roth tells us, is deeply and frivolously at peace. The Shah of Persia has come to visit, on the advice of his philosophical Chief Eunuch, who recommends travel as the best cure for the conviction that variety might exist...

Iris a quitté Paris pour suivre Paul, son mari, dans une expatriation à Vienne. Tandis qu’il s’épanouit, elle se sent étrangère à cette ville élégante dont elle ne connaît ni les codes ni la langue. Ses journées solitaires s’étirent, rythmées par ses courses le long du Ring, le...

With the end of the Second World War in sight, the Allies begin to divide up the spoils and it proves to be a dangerous game. The British have become aware that the Soviet Union is intent on controlling Austria once the war ends. Major Edgar is given the job of establishing an espionage unit in...

A young teacher with a passion for money enters a world she never imagined... a job at the embassy, ​​a strange promotion, and rapidly growing ambitions! But is all this real? Or is there something bigger hidden? Discover the story and see the ending you won't expect!

Vienna: Years Ago includes six short stories focusing on a collection of people in 1945 Vienna, including a Vienna police inspector, an American soldier, a former SS major, an American woman doctor, and various friends, lovers, spouses, and enemies.

I'm a damsel in distress without health insurance and an upcoming surgery. Zane is my billionaire knight in a three-piece suit, an affectionate smile, and a stuttering voice. When I run out of all options, he proposes a gentleman's offer, generous and beautiful, exactly like him. We get into a marriage of convenience until my life is back to normal. Simple. But nothing is simple in my grand wedding and designer wedding dress. Ours is possibly the only fake wedding where every custom is followed to the word—including consummating the marriage.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Lottie Sprigg and her employer, Mrs. Moore, are guests at Vienna's opulent Schönbrunn Palace. But their visit goes awry when the corpse of a renowned psychoanalyst is found in the grounds. There's a handful of suspects and-tragically for Mrs. Moore—one of them is her beloved Prince Manfred.

1937. Katya Komarovsky is studying medicine in Glasgow, living among friends and eager to begin her career as a doctor. But when her spendthrift parents announce that they’ve run out of money and are facing ruin—and that she’ll now have to support them by working as a governess in Vienna—the life she’s dreamed of goes up in smoke. Furiously resentful, Katya rages at her wealthy employer, Thor, for stealing her future—and saddling her with twelve-year-old Gretchen, a deeply troubled child who has only a blazing musical talent to redeem her.

Vienna 1938: Austria’s leading couturier, Christina Lehmann, sits at the pinnacle of Viennese society. Her lover, the renowned painter Max Hauser, is at the height of his career. But Max harbors a secret, and it is only a matter of time before the Gestapo finds out. The situation takes a dramatic turn on Kristallnacht, when the pogrom against the Austrian Jews escalates and one of Christina’s Jewish seamstresses is brutally murdered.

Vienna, 2035. AI agents now do what people once did. The question is no longer whether machines can think, but whether it makes any difference. Then a quantum biologist delivers the proof: inside the cells of our bodies lies something no technology can replicate. Consciousness is not an...

Pour devenir le plus grand magicien du monde, il a dû disparaître : aujourd'hui, William Ellsworth Robinson est Chung Ling Soo, « le merveilleux magicien chinois ». Sur scène, il fascine. En coulisses, il ment. Car pour incarner son personnage, il a tout sacrifié : ses origines, son nom, sa vie... Quand une riche famille viennoise l'engage pour une représentation privée et que le spectacle vire au drame, tous les regards se tournent vers lui et l'accusent.

Er braucht eine Ehe. Sie braucht Abstand. Was keiner von beiden geplant hat: Gefühle. Wie gebannt starrt Marisa ihn an. Vor Schreck vergisst sie sogar zu atmen, denn nie und nimmer hätte die eher unscheinbare Partyplanerin auf ihrem Kontrollgang einen so verdammt attraktiven Mann im Badezimmer...

Vienna, 1904. The body of a man—still sitting in a chair—is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned...

A robbery in London. The murder of a priest at the end of World War ll. A genocide in Namibia. The discovery of the remains of Hitler's secretary. Something connects all this. Former British spy Jack Price knows the answer, and he's willing to die to keep the secret. The problem? He's not the only one who knows. It’s the lies that are not heard, but kept as secrets, that own us all. Deep in the world of espionage and deception, how far is Jack willing to go to fulfill his mission?

Vienna, 1941. In a city drowned in silence under Nazi occupation, one forbidden sound refuses to die. Elijah Rosen, a young Jewish violinist, survives by hiding in the attic of a grand opera house—its broken rafters his sanctuary, its abandoned stage his only audience. Each night, he lifts his bow and plays into the darkness, letting music speak the name he is no longer allowed to utter: freedom. Below him, German Lieutenant Viktor Weiss walks the corridors of the same opera house, a soldier haunted by the memory of a sister who once played the violin.