Showing results for "Vera" in Literary Fiction

Lucy Entwhistle's beloved father has just died; aged twenty-two she finds herself alone in the world. Leaning against her garden gate, dazed and unhappy, she is disturbed by the sudden appearance of the perspiring Mr Wemyss. This middle-aged man is also in mourning - for his wife Vera, who has died in mysterious circumstances. Before Lucy can collect herself, Mr Wemyss has taken charge: of the funeral arrangements, of her kind aunt Dot, but most of all of Lucy herself - body and soul.

The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson, she was a law student on work experience. He was a 21-year-old, led from the dock of the Old Bailey to begin a life sentence for murder. He'd said he was innocent. She'd believed him. Sixteen years later Tess overhears a couple of hacks mocking a newcomer to the London Bar, a no-hoper with a murder conviction, running his own show from an old fishmonger's in Spitalfields.

La lingua batte dove il dente duole, e il dente che duole alla fin fine è sempre lo stesso. L'unica rivoluzione possibile è smettere di piangerci su. In questo romanzo esilarante e feroce, Veronica Raimo apre una strada nuova. Racconta del sesso, dei legami, delle perdite, del diventare grandi, e nella sua voce buffa, caustica, disincantata esplode il ritratto finalmente sincero e libero di una giovane donna di oggi. "Niente di vero" è la scommessa riuscita, rarissima, di curare le ferite ridendo. "All'inizio c'è la famiglia.

Corre el año 1920 y Joaquín Buitrago, que por azares de su atormentada vida acaba dedicándose a fotografiar a los internos del manicomio mexicano La Castañeda, se topa de pronto, entre las mujeres a las que retrata, con Matilda Burgos. Obsesionado por la identidad de esta enferma, pues cree haberla conocido años atrás en el célebre burdel La Modernidad, trata de recabar información sobre ella.

For three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. With her marriage, she gave up on her own career as a concert pianist, but her husband Bowen has long rebuffed her desire to have a child. Instead, she must accommodate her mother-in-law, newly arrived from the province of Yunnan and bringing with her long-buried family secrets. Soon strange parcels start to show up on the doorstep and Song Yan's dreams become troubling and claustrophobic.

"A cosa pensa una donna quando, assordata dalle voci di tutti, capisce all’improvviso di aver soffocato la propria?" In pochi come Matteo Bussola sanno raccontare, con tanta delicatezza e profondità, le contraddizioni dei rapporti umani. In pochi sanno cogliere con tale pudore il nostro desiderio e la nostra paura di essere felici. Una donna sola che in tarda età scopre l’amore. Una figlia che lotta per riuscire a perdonare sua madre. Una ragazza che invece non vuole figli, perché non sopporterebbe il loro dolore. Una vedova che scrive al marito.

Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its pork snacks. When her grandmother, the great Madame Leong, unexpectedly passes away, Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim and this newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Finding herself at the centre of a political controversy, and caught between two men who love her, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.

2003, Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, 16-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother, Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued Circe, an unlikely encounter develops into an intense friendship and offers Szu a means of escape from her mother's alarming solitariness.

"Dieses Haus, aus Papier gebaut, ist zu etwas Festem geworden, das der Zeit standhält. Dieses Haus, dieser Ort: alle meine Geheimnisse sind hier." Der amerikanische Nr. 1-Bestseller endlich in deutscher Übersetzung. Elle Bishop, Anfang 50, glücklich verheiratet, drei Kinder, urlaubt im Sommerhaus der Familie, das alle scherzhaft den Papierpalast nennen. Elle schwimmt ihre morgendliche Runde im See und denkt nach über das, was am Abend zuvor geschehen ist.

One morning in autumn, just after breakfast, Jia Jia finds her husband dead in the bathtub of their Beijing apartment. Next to him is a piece of folded paper, a sketch of a strange creature from his dream. He has left her no other sign. Young, alone and with many unanswered questions, Jia Jia sets out on a journey. Starting at her neighbourhood bar, fuelled by anger, bewilderment, curiosity and love, she travels from nocturnal Beijing to the high plains of Tibet, deep into her past in order to arrive at her future.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Johanne Johansen muss kurz nach ihrem 65. Geburtstag erfahren, dass das traditionsreiche Familienunternehmen – die Elbreederei Kurt Johansen & Söhne – kurz vor der Pleite steht. Johanne, die nach dem frühen Tod der Eltern bei den Großeltern aufwuchs und sich bis zum Schluss um sie gekümmert hat, ist entsetzt und ratlos. Das Lebenswerk ihrer Eltern steht auf dem Spiel und sie weiß, dass sie es ohne Hilfe nicht schaffen kann.

A woman fleeing her previous existence meets a fellow Singaporean on an overnight train in Norway. A foreign worker is decapitated in an HDB building site accident. A Singaporean wife must negotiate Beijing as her British husband awaits a heart transplant. And in different corners of the world, Singaporeans and exiles mark National Day in their own ways.

Als ihr Sohn Heinrich 1881 zur Welt kommt, setzt Anna Reichenheim große Hoffnungen auf diesen Erstgeborenen. Doch Heinrich schert sich nicht um die Konventionen seiner großbürgerlichen jüdischen Familie. Er erliegt den Verlockungen des Berliner Nachtlebens und verliebt sich in die ganz gewöhnliche Marie, die seine Mutter nicht akzeptieren kann. Gemeinsam suchen Heinrich und Marie in den USA ihr Glück, bis der Erste Weltkrieg sie zurück nach Deutschland holt.

Kirsten Hammanns uregerlige debutroman fra 1993. En roman om Vera Winkelvir, som "nogen har opfundet", men "hvem fanden er dum nok til at tro på det?!" Den er kaotisk og springende, men også fuld af livsappetit og vilje til at skildre et liv her og nu, fuld af absurditet og humor.

Bestsellerautor David Safier erzählt die Geschichte seiner Eltern: Sie führt uns vom Wien des Jahres 1938, als sein Vater Joschi dort studierte, über die Gefängnisse der Gestapo bis nach Palästina, wo er als Barmann und Spion arbeitete und schließlich zur See fuhr. Waltraud wächst als Tochter eines Werftarbeiters in Bremen auf. Im Krieg wird die Familie ausgebombt, wohnt jahrelang in einem Eisenbahnwagen. Als das Wirtschaftswunder kommt, ergattert Waltraut einen begehrten Ausbildungsplatz zur Verkäuferin. Bei ihrer ersten Begegnung mit Joschi in einer Eisdiele lässt Waltraut ihn abblitzen.

"The Pearl Fishers", del 1915, pubblicato in Italia come "l'Isola delle Perle", viene scritto dopo sette anni dopo il libro che rese famoso l'autore: Laguna Blu. Grande appassionato degli atolli corallini, ambienta la storia in un atollo disabitato e ricco di possibilità commerciali, un vero tesoro di perle. Il tesoro è scoperto casualmente da due naufraghi e intorno a questa ricchezza materiale si svolgono le avventure che hanno uno sfondo incantato in cui la natura è sempre protagonista.

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.

In early 20th century British East Africa, there are rules for the British and different ones for the Africans. Vera McIntosh, the daughter of Scottish missionaries, doesn't feel she belongs to either group; having grown up in Africa, she is not interested in being the well-bred Scottish woman her mother would like her to be. More than anything, she dreams of seeing again the handsome police officer she's danced with. But more grisly circumstances bring Justin Tolliver to her family's home.

Piacenza, dicembre 2019. Sono trascorsi dieci anni da quando si è spento Stefano Fugazza, l'indimenticato direttore della Galleria d’arte moderna Ricci Oddi, e fervono i preparativi per la mostra che lo celebrerà. A curarla è stato chiamato Gabriele Dadati, che era il più stretto collaboratore dello studioso nell’ultimo periodo della sua vita. Quando l'allestimento è ormai concluso, avviene un fatto clamoroso: a distanza di ventitré anni dal furto, fa la sua ricomparsa in città Ritratto di signora di Gustav Klimt.