Showing results for "Chile" in Genre Fiction

Melanie Mooney thought she was just doing her job when she came upon an unusual accident in the deep woods late one night. Acting alone, what she found was nothing like she’d expected. What followed was even more unexpected. Recruited by emissaries of a galaxy-spanning civilization, Melanie is thrust into a world she thought only existed in supermarket tabloids. As the first human in the Galactic Union Medical Corps, she cares for extraterrestrials in desperate need of a medic who can ignore the fact that they’re nothing like any patient she’s ever seen, even on their best days.

It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium in Valparaiso. McGarvey manages to cross the border over the mountains from Argentina without being discovered, and even makes his way to the general's remote compound. But the odds are stacked against him.

Isabel Allendes bewegender Roman über ein Leben zwischen Bürgerkrieg, Flucht und Putsch in Chile. Fast ein ganzes Leben - das erzählt dieser Roman, den weiten Weg des Arztes Víctor Dalmau, und zwar vor einer üppigen zeitgeschichtlichen Kulisse, ausgehend vom Spanien der Bürgerkriegsjahre, Flucht über Frankreich und mit Pablo Nerudas Winnipeg nach Chile, die Pinochet-Jahre und die Zeit danach. Es geht um Geschichte als Menschheitsschicksal und als persönliche Tragödie, es geht um Vertreibung, Flucht, Exil und die Unmöglichkeit, an einem Ort dauerhaft anzukommen.