Títulos en Ficción biográfica

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo OHiggins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodrguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Bellolio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudos' prime theft and murder suspects.

October 2007. Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto returns home after eight years of exile to seek political office once more. Assigned to cover her controversial arrival is TV journalist Ali Sikandar, the estranged son of a wealthy landowner from the interior region of Sindh.

This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina, as Caroline is known, serves as William's assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife. When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches her world collapse.

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ’No!’ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and king of 39 other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The king had to choose: to be king, or to have love... and leave his country, never to return.

Written in an urban vernacular that’s electrifying and intimate, On the Come Up introduces a heroine whose voice is irrepressible, dynamic, and unstintingly honest. Thirteen-year-old AnnMarie Walker dreams of a world beyond Far Rockaway, where the sway of the neighborhood keeps her tied to old ideas about success. While attending a school for pregnant teens, AnnMarie comes across a flyer advertising movie auditions in Manhattan. Astonishingly, improbably, and four months before she’s due to give birth - she lands a lead role.

As a young boy, Jack is sent to deliver a set of pictures to a house on Princeton's Mercer Street. The house is quite ordinary, but the man who lives there is not. Far from it. It is Albert Einstein, perhaps the smartest man in the world. The man that bent space and warped time. The first chance meeting leads to an unexpected friendship. Jack becomes a regular visitor to the famous professor's home. Together they set out on a journey that explores the professor's ideas about space, time, and gravity.

Set in the San Francisco Bay area, Dr. Severance's character sets up his last practice. This time it will be independent, on his terms, and in the manner that he feels will facilitate the best effects of psychotherapy. All aspects of the daily life of a full-time psychologist are incorporated. The listener is presented with the often heart-wrenching stories of his clients and the delicate intricacies of a man who possesses the same desires and vulnerabilities. As always, Dr. Severance brings it all together in an unexpected and tense finale.

Born in Japan of a French father and White Russian mother, Alex Faure greeted news of war in the Pacific with schoolboy enthusiasm. That is until the hardships of being a gaijin and neutral foreigner in Japan during World War II became a stark reality for the Faure family. Award-winning author and screenwriter, Peter Yeldham masterfully tells Alex Faure’s own true story against the backdrop of real events in wartime Japan. Laced with excerpts from Alex’s diary, Dragons in the Forest is a riveting tale of life as a foreigner in a strange land at a very dangerous time.

Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters - the princesses Margaret and Mary. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she can't help giving her heart to a man she can never marry.

This autobiographical novel follows the career of a civil engineering apprentice, from childhood to middle age. Along the way, we get to see the inner workings of the profession, from the nuts and bolts of civil engineering and surveying, their technological transformation, to the death of the apprenticeship system. It's a mysterious world that few laymen know. And yet we are all surrounded by their work everywhere, every day.

In 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage. At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase his congregation, even if that means marrying off girls to men decades older. When Peri, who escaped the compound years earlier, returns to help rescue Grace, a girl betrothed to the prophet himself, she ends up also saving her own sister Emma.

In una notte tempestosa dell'inverno dell'anno 1789, il diavolo irrompe nella vita del giovane Niccolò Paganini. Suo malgrado Niccolò sarà condizionato per sempre dal legame con il Maligno: nell'arte e nell'amore, nel trionfo e nella disperazione, in un'alternanza continua tra bene e male. E' stato un musicista celebrato e invidiato, e un amante appassionato e conteso dalle donne più belle e potenti di quel tempo. Ha frequentato le corti più prestigiose e gli uomini più potenti, il suo famoso violino Guarneri Del Gesù ha originato melodie eterne.

In una notte tempestosa dell'inverno dell'anno 1789, il diavolo irrompe nella vita del giovane Niccolò Paganini. Suo malgrado Niccolò sarà condizionato per sempre dal legame con il Maligno: nell'arte e nell'amore, nel trionfo e nella disperazione, in un'alternanza continua tra bene e male. E' stato un musicista celebrato e invidiato, e un amante appassionato e conteso dalle donne più belle e potenti di quel tempo. Ha frequentato le corti più prestigiose e gli uomini più potenti, il suo famoso violino Guarneri Del Gesù ha originato melodie eterne.

"Il silenzio è irreale, qui, al centro del salone. Non riesco nemmeno a sentire gli uccelli cantare nel giardino, fuori dalle grandi finestre. L'odore di bruciato copre ogni cosa, così come la fuliggine. Si è depositata su mobili, fotografie, quadri... su tutto quello che resta di quanto conteneva questa casa. La mia casa, Villa Montenegro. Queste mura hanno resistito a tempeste, terremoti, ma non al fuoco, e alle impossibili temperature dell'odio. Ma ora, in mezzo alla catastrofe, mi manca l'aria."

Una vida regalada dibuixa un territori, la Barcelona més confusa i opaca del barri de la Ribera. La matèria primera d'aquesta història és la relació, contradictòria i variada, que el narrador i protagonista ha mantingut amb les dones amb qui ha compartit la vida. És una autobiografia literària, una introspecció sense contemplacions i una mirada fresca i poc respectuosa projectada sobre el carrer. La novella explora un triangle impúdic entre un Diògenes modern reciclat per la psicoanàlisi, les dones i la literatura.

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Während eines Aufenthalts in einer europäischen Stadt, die im weißen Winterschlaf liegt, überfällt die Erzählerin plötzlich die Erinnerung an ihre Schwester, die als Neugeborenes in den Armen der Mutter starb. Sie ringt mit dieser Tragödie, die das Leben ihrer Familie bestimmt hat, ein Ereignis, das in Bildern von Weiß wieder und wieder aufscheint: das Weiß der Muttermilch, der Windel, der reiskuchenweißen Haut des kleinen Mädchens. Nur eine Autorin wie Han Kang vermag es, aus einer so zutiefst persönlichen Erinnerung eine große literarische Erzählung zu erschaffen.

François Villon ist der wohl berühmteste französische Poet des Mittelalters. Siegfried Obermeier erzählt mit viel Farbenfröhlichkeit von dem Leben des Rebells, Gauners und Frauenhelds Villon. Sein Leben war eine Gratwanderung zwischen Fürstenhof und Henkersmahl. Der Zuhörer erhält nicht nur einen Einblick in das Leben Villons, auch wird das mittelalterliche Frankreich in zahlreichen Facetten dargestellt.

Leipzig 1835: Als die sechzehnjährige Pianistin Clara ihrem Vater offenbart, dass sie sich verliebt hat, ist dieser alles andere als begeistert. Doch Clara, die nicht nur die musikalische Begabung, sondern auch den Eigensinn ihres Vaters geerbt hat, kämpft für ihre Liebe.

Un fattorino d'albergo è costretto ad assistere a perversioni da adulti; uno scrittore alcolista cerca in ogni modo di rimandare il proprio collasso nervoso per riuscire a finire il suo ultimo libro; una famiglia disfunzionale, i cui membri si distruggono vicendevolmente sull'ingannevole sfondo della ricca California nel periodo bellico. È un'opera sconvolgente e per gran parte autobiografica. L'autore guida il lettore come un moderno Dante nel proprio inferno personale e dipinge in modo vivido e disperato personaggi indimenticabili.