Showing results for "Ein Stein" in Literary Fiction

Roaming India in 1939 and the early 1940s, two flawed but extraordinary men latch onto each other with shocking consequences as each follows an ill-fated quest for “enlightenment.” Moses, a Polish Jew, is fleeing both the Nazis and his own failed marriage; Sahadeva, an itinerant Hindu monk, is trying to resolve his crisis of religious belief. Both men find themselves embroiled in hardship, shame, and chaos, stumbling into scandal and ultimately tragedy.

Evan had a hit single, but that was 10 years ago. Thirty-one now, hes drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Now, 14 years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son hes never known. Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty.

Tout au long de ses livres, Marguerite Duras a étendu sa recherche aux dimensions ignorées ou méconnues du désir, pierre angulaire de son œuvre. Avec "Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein", elle nous entraîne dans la quête acharnée et troublante des splendeurs de l'amour fou entrevues par son héroïne. Suivant le sillage d'une parole sobre et mystérieuse, l'auditeur se laisse emporter jusqu'à l'horizon de cette magnifique histoire qui brille d'une inoubliable intensité. Envoûtant récit auquel Fanny Ardant prête sa voix exceptionnelle.

When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it's a wrenching return to her past. The hometown of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay Resort, where Jenna's young son, Bobby, disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. The quest for the truth behind her son's disappearance is about to pull her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss.

I met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012. I was going home after a meal with friends, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around six o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began.

As a vampire, Anna Strong has an immortal life...but now she’s running out of time.

Anna’s relationship with shape-shifter Daniel Frey has given her hope for a future with him and his son - especially when Frey proposes.… But just when Anna starts to think her life couldn’t be better, she must fly to France to be at the side of her dying mother. There she learns that not every vampire accepts her Chosen One status. And one such vamp is about to go rogue - by leading his followers in a fight to usurp humanity….

Conxa ist gerade dreizehn, als ihre Eltern, arme Bauern in den katalanischen Pyrenäen, sie zu einer kinderlosen Tante bringen. An Arbeit mangelt es auch hier nicht, und für Gefühle kennt die Tante keine Worte, aber das Mädchen ist zumindest versorgt. Als sie einige Jahre später ihre große Liebe Jaume heiratet, erlebt Conxa sogar ein bescheidenes Glück. Doch der Krieg hält brutal Einzug in die Abgeschiedenheit des Dorfes und reißt auch Conxa mit sich wie einen Stein im Geröll.

When Kate Campbell is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. She knows she won’t be home for long; she’s got every intention (and a three-point plan) to win back everything she thinks she’s lost. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman - aka “The Prince of Sea Point” - has also returned home to prove to his mother that he’s capable of taking over the family business, and he’s promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time.

Thirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page. Something is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents.

In 2012, in Paris, the novelist Édouard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met. This act of violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the past he had sworn to leave behind. A best seller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction account with the victim as its subject. Moving seamlessly between past and present, between Louis’s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best.

The Silver Baron's Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado's Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict and one to a Senator and silver baron worth $24 million in the late 19th century.

This century unfolds with a fast-changing world riven by immense wars and glutton hungry Empires. Women strive to win the most basic of rights, the right to vote. Their literary testament is now a vital part of our cultural world. They write on all manner of subjects with truth, with imagination and with undeniable talent. We are all the richer for their words.

This appealing story about a poor lame shepherd boy, whose kind heart reaps unexpected rewards, is set in the beautiful countryside of southern France.

In questo scrittore, definito anche padre della letteratura americana, troviamo quella scrittura di inizi novecento che si apre al flusso di pensieri, alla punteggiatura usata in modo anticonvenzionale, e che si collega alle scritture di Joyce, Wolfe, Stein, e di cui poi troveremo i frutti in Hemingway, Faulkner, e in Pavese, che ha tradotto questo romanzo. Uno spaccato della provincia Americana del 1926, dipinto da un impressionista della scrittura che fa aperti riferimenti alla pittura di Cezanne e Matisse.

"Nichts hielt für immer an. Das wusste ich. Aber in diesem Moment waren wir endlos." Am ersten Tag des neuen Jahres gibt Amanda sich ein Versprechen: Die nächsten 365 Tage werden anders. Sie wird anders. Vier Jahre, nachdem ihre erste große Liebe ihr das Herz zerbombt hat, trifft sie auf Émil. Émil, den Künstler. Émil, der so frei ist, wie Amanda es immer sein wollte. Émil, der sie dazu bringt, endlich wieder einen Pinsel in die Hand zu nehmen. Amanda lässt sich auf einen Deal ein, doch schnell wird klar: Malen mit Émil ist nie nur malen.

David hat Job und Wohnung gekündigt, das Flugticket in der Tasche, den Koffer voller Geld. Da ruft die siebzehnjährige Nicole an und behauptet, er sei ihr Vater. In der leeren Wohnung erwartet David das Eintreffen der vermeintlichen Tochter. Davon unbeeindruckt zieht die attraktive Nachmieterin Angelina ein... Die desillusionierte, verheiratete Maria hat den alten Pietro bis zu dessen Tod gepflegt und sein heruntergekommenes Hotel geführt.

When Diana retired from her detective duties, she firmly believed her time spent solving mysteries was over. She loved to cook, and starting her own B&B seemed like a seamless step into a far more fun and cozier lifestyle. Did she sometimes miss the adrenaline rush of solving a case? Sure. But those days are behind her now. That was until mysterious footprints appeared in the middle of the hall.

Rosalie hat den kranken Soldaten Francoeur gepflegt und ihn gegen den Willen ihrer Mutter geheiratet. Daraufhin hat ihre Mutter ihn verflucht. Nach der Geburt ihres gemeinsamen Kindes geht der Fluch als schreckliches Benehmen auf Francoeur über. Mithilfe des Grafen Dürand gelingt es Rosalie ihren Mann auf das "Fort Ratonneau" überzusetzen, wo das Benehmen keinem auffällt. Schließlich platzt seine Wunde am Kopf auf und der Francoeur wird von seinem Fluch erlöst.