Showing results for "Angela" in Biographical Fiction

En este magnífico audiolibro se narran los duros comienzos de una familia emigrante irlandesa, vista a través de un niño. Por ello, el oyente se encontrará con grandes dosis de humor y compasión transmitidos a través de su autor, Frank McCourt. Es una extraordinaria obra donde Frank McCourt nos muestra el amor, la dignidad, y el humor de una infancia marcada por el hambre, la muerte, y el dolor.

L’esperienza vissuta nell’angoscioso sogno: l’anziana donna nero-vestita, sguardo minaccioso e agghiacciante, che con voce infernale pronuncia ripetutamente “non ti darò pace”, il reale manifestarsi nella sera successiva della stessa che resasi visibile, ripete la medesima minaccia “non ti darò pace”, rivelano al giovane quattordicenne che la linea tra il reale e il surrreale si è spezzata. Misteri e verità nella vita di un medium, frutto di un’accurata indagine, e molteplici testimonianze, si annovera nella categoria del “romanzo sperimentale”, inteso come documento di vita.

If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don’t polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks.Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh’s childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist...

To Pocahontas and her people, the Tidewater is the rightful home of the Powhatan tribe. To England it is Virginia Territory, fertile with promise, rich with silver and gold. As Jamestown struggles to take root, John Smith knows that the only hope for survival lies with the Powhatan people. He knows, too, that they would rather see the English starve than yield their homeland to invaders. In the midst of this conflict, Pocahontas, the daughter of the great chief, forges an unlikely friendship with Smith.

From rowdy Barcelona barrooms to the incandescent streets of turn-of-the-century Paris, Pablo Picasso experiences the sumptuous highs and seedy lows of bohemian life alongside his rebellious poet friend with a shadowy past, Carles Casagemas. Fleeing family misfortune and their parents’ expectations, the two young artists seek their creative outlet while chasing inspiration in drugs, decadence, and the liberated women of Montmartre - creatures far different from the veiled ones back home.

Cousins Masha and Rachel Morgenstern board the luxury liner the SS Manhattan bound for New York, desperate to escape the concentration camps that claimed the rest of their family. America offers a safe haven, but to reach it they must survive a hazardous Atlantic crossing. Among their fellow passengers fleeing the war, each with their own conflicts, secrets, and surprises, are the composer Igor Stravinsky, making a new start after a decade of tragedy, and Rose Kennedy, determined to keep her four children from harm.

Adriana Altaras erzählt von ihrer Tante, der schönen Teta Jele. Von einer Frau, die 101 Jahre alt wurde, die spanische Grippe, das KZ und ihre norditalienische Schwiegermutter überlebte. Von einer so liebevollen wie eigensinnigen Beziehung. Und davon, wie man lernt, das Leben anzunehmen. Als ihre Eltern aus Zagreb fliehen müssen, kommt Adriana mit vier Jahren zu ihrer Tante nach Italien. Dorthin wird sie ihr Leben lang zurückkehren. Als Jugendliche in den Sommerferien, mit ihrer gesamten Abiklasse - und mit all ihren Liebhabern, die Tantchens aristokratischem Blick standhalten müssen.