Showing results for "Elias" in Literary Fiction

The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history. A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’...

Los habitantes de Santa Rita, con sus problemas e historias, y dos cadáveres – uno, un bebé cuyo esqueleto se acaba de encontrar entre los restos de un muro derribado, en la zona antigua de Santa Rita, junto a unos cuadros muy valiosos de la escuela expresionista ""Der Blaue Reiter"", el otro, un conocido especialista de historia del arte que tenía que hacer el peritaje de los cuadros - forman el núcleo narrativo de la nueva obra de Elia Barceló, un Noir Mediterráneo, con guiños a clásicos del suspense como Colombo o Dexter.

A group of entrepreneurs brings roaring back to life a defunct turbine factory and the town around it, promising a return to the days of dignity, jobs and the good life and bright future that a manufacturing center can dispense to a small town. But is a return to the days of plenty possible? And what of the changed relationships between lovers, and within families, that have transpired in the years since that earlier time? Perišić takes us there, into the past and into the future, and watches with a bemused sad smile as the inevitable wreaks havoc with the possible.

As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life. Unable to confine his fabrications to fiction, he’s been abandoned by his girlfriend over his lies. But all Matija has is invention. Especially when it comes to his childhood and the death of his father. Whatever happened to Matija as a young boy, he can’t remember. He feels frightened, angry, and responsible....

Wie in einer Muschel lebt Peter Kien, Sinologe und Bücherliebhaber, in seiner Bibliothek. Der Eindringling, der diese Muschel aufbricht, heißt...

Nel marzo 2021, un Boeing 787 di Air France in volo da Parigi a New York incappa in una grande turbolenza prima di atterrare. Tre mesi dopo lo stesso aereo, con gli stessi passeggeri e un identico equipaggio, ricontatta i controllori di volo dell'aeroporto JFK. L'inspiegabile duplicazione preoccupa CIA, FBI e gli alti comandi dell'esercito, che dirottano l'aereo in una base militare. Le indagini degli Stati Uniti e delle altre potenze scatenano una caccia all'uomo planetaria per rintracciare i misteriosi doppi di tutte le persone a bordo.

En esta bellísima pieza literaria su autora nos recuerda que somos palabras, que somos seres que nos narramos a nosotros mismos, creando así nuestra propia historia. En la búsqueda nostálgica de algo que puede estar o no estar allí, esta novela corta tan breve como intensa presenta una historia de amor e identidad que desafía los hilos del tiempo, de la soledad y de la memoria, en aquel espacio en el que el deseo tiene su propia dimensión y la pasión sus propias leyes.

Heroínas es un audiolibro ideado y presentado por Juan Gómez-Jurado con catorce cuentos en torno al 8 de marzo, Día Internacional de la Mujer, escritos por Elia Barceló, Espido Freire, Luz Gabás, Arturo González-Campos, Alaitz Leceaga, Manel Loureiro, Raquel Martos, José María Merino...

Wenn dein Tod erst der Anfang ist und im Vorhof zur Hölle die Liebe lauert. Das verratene Herz ist der Auftakt der Pageturner-Trilogie Empire of Sins and Souls von Bestseller-Autorin Beril Kehribar: Dark Romantasy mit einem morally gray cast und einer Heldin, für die der Tod nicht das Ende ist. Zoé Durand ist eine Sünderin. Eine Lügnerin, eine Prostituierte und eine berüchtigte Diebin. Nach einer schicksalhaften Nacht muss sie sich einen weiteren Titel auf ihre Liste schreiben: Mörderin. Kein Wunder, dass sie sich nach ihrer Hinrichtung in Xanthia wiederfindet, der letzten Station vor den Toren der Hölle.

At 62 Sheriff Clint Benbow is not a sound sleeper. He is awakened one night by the tremors of an explosion, and learns it came from the local bank. It is now his duty to venture into the blizzard outside and apprehend the robbers, but at his age the job seems impossible.