Showing results for "Mama" in Literature & Fiction

"Mama hat was Süßes. Und was Bitteres. Ihr Leben war süß, ihr Leben war bitter. Ihr Leben war arm, ihr Leben war unendlich reich." Andrea Wolfmayr legt hier ein Buch der Liebe vor... aber nicht nur der Liebe. Denn ganz so einfach lässt sich ein Buch, das eine Tochter für (oder über) ihre Mutter schreibt, nicht auf dieses eine Wort reduzieren. Es ist darüber hinaus auch ein Buch der Wut, der Trauer und des Entsetzens. Über den Tod und über das Leben. Der einzig richtige Titel für dieses Buch kann deshalb nur "MAMA!!" lauten. Mit zwei Rufzeichen.

“MAMA” is an emotionally charged drama-thriller set against the backdrop of the George Floyd protestsand civil unrest in Minneapolis, 2020. The story follows four interconnected lives: Arturo, a reformed gang member seeking peace for his daughter; Mariah, a young law student whose viral video of Floyd’s murder sparks global outrage; Kassandra, the estranged daughter of Minneapolis’ District Attorney torn between loyalty and justice; and Saabir, a conflicted Somali-American caught between his moral compass and his family’s survival.

வீட்டை விட்டு ஓடிப் போய் காதல் திருமணம் செய்து கொண்ட வந்தனா; பல வருடங்களுக்குப் பிறகு, கிராமத்திலிருந்து அவளை பார்க்க வரும் அவளது அண்ணன்.

Beide warten auf Harald: Lebensgefährtin und Mutter. Und sie liefern sich einen Kampf, der einem Strindberg-Drama in nichts nachsteht. Harald, der Golden-Retriever-Mann, musste sich bisher nie entscheiden. Als Haralds Ankunft sich wegen eines Schneesturms verzögert, eskaliert der Streit.

Eine Tochter steht in der Wohnung ihrer plötzlich verstorbenen Mutter. Die Mutter ist fort, ihre gesamten Ersparnisse auch. Was bleibt, sind Fragen: Warum ist die Wohnung so chaotisch, der Briefkasten so voll? Und wie ist es überhaupt möglich, seine eigene Mutter an einen Heiratsschwindler zu verlieren? Sarah Kuttner erzählt die Geschichte einer Frau, die Liebe suchte und auf einen Love Scammer traf. Die sich verliebte und die Augen verschloss. Die nichts zurückließ, außer einem schier endlosen Chat mit dem Betrüger.

Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter. It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed.

So-nyo, una mujer de sesenta y nueve años y algunos achaques, desaparece en medio de la multitud al separarse de su marido cuando se cierran las puertas de un tren abarrotado. Su familia emprende una búsqueda desesperada, consumidos por la culpabilidad, el dolor, y las recriminaciones del pasado. Mientras discuten sobre los carteles de «Se busca» que cuelgan por toda la ciudad, sus hijos se dan cuenta de que nadie tiene una fotografía reciente de su madre.

"O carte captivantă și generoasă, plină de compasiune și de revelații despre viaţa animalelor, dar şi despre viaţa oamenilor." — YUVAL NOAH HARARI În Mama. Ultima îmbrățișare, Frans de Waal explorează bogăția emoțională a vieții animalelor – începând cu Mama, o...

Zovem se Mama je duhovita priča o mnogim dečjim i roditeljskim strahovima, brigama, tugama, ambicijama i svađama. Autorka nam kroz primere i ličnu priču pokazuje da normalnost nema granice, baš kao ni ljubav, mašta i poverenje kada su u pitanju deca i roditelji...

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and destructive vices. Set amid the tail end of the crack epidemic and the rise of the opioid crisis, Mama Said evokes Black family life in all its complexity, following JayLynn, along with her cousins Zaria and Angel, as they come of age struggling against their mothers' drug addictions.

Robyn and Aries are "The Murder Mamas", contract killers from Los Angeles who take no prisoners. It doesn't take them long to link up with Hollywood's biggest drug kingpin, who hires them to take out a snitch and a judge. But the plans backfire, and they complete only half the job. Robyn is caught and put on death row, and Aries goes on the run. She winds up in the islands, where she takes up a new life as a mother and wife and tries to forget who she once was.

¿Qué sucede cuando descubres que has vivido una mentira y decides poner punto final a tu "felices para siempre"? Me llamo Estefanía, soy madre de tres hijos y estuve felizmente casada. Mi día a día era siempre el mismo: me levantaba, atendía a mis pequeños, los llevaba al cole, desayunaba con mis amigas, hacía la compra, sacaba a mi perra y me iba al trabajo. Todo era perfecto y yo me sentía una mujer feliz.

Die Welt der russisch-jüdischen Familie aus Hamburg, um die es in Maxim Billers neuem Roman Mama Odessa geht, ist voller Geheimnisse, Verrat und Literatur. Wir hören aber auch ein kluges, schönes und wahrhaftiges Hörbuch über einen Sohn und eine Mutter, beide Schriftsteller, die sich lieben, wegen des Schreibens immer wieder verraten – und einander trotzdem nie verlieren.

"Paulette es una señora de alta alcurnia o “GCU” (gente como uno) que pisa los sesenta años. Divorciada de un marido “de toda la vida” que la abandonó para casarse con una mujer más joven, dolorida y sola por primera vez, decide un día bajarse de la calesita de alcohol y pastillas que la mantiene en vacilante funcionamiento.

Con un hijo internado por sobredosis, otro acusado de violencia de género y una hija que casi no le habla, intenta salir adelante con la ayuda de Alcóholicos Anónimos y una buena cuota de sexo que, para su sorpresa, se le ofrece a cada paso sin gran esfuerzo de su parte...

This is laugh-aloud chick-lit that will have you hooked from the opening scene. In this world of Prada, Louis Vuitton, and Bulgari, our heroine, Mim, has to do battle with the Car Park Mafia and the Mothers Superior as she drops her children off at the most prestigious school in Melbourne. But in between keeping up with the Joneses - or, in this case, the Mason-Jacksons - cracks are starting to show in Mim's perfect life.

Most people think of the morgue as that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, albeit dreadful, work. Less familiar is the other type of morgue, the dry and dusty version, the newspaper morgue, usually housed in the basements and backrooms of newspaper buildings, where old news clippings are filed away. Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of the Hannawa Herald-Union’s morgue for more than forty years. She is gruff and salty, well past the age of retirement, and the unchallenged queen of her ink-stained domain.

¿Qué implicaciones tiene ser madre, parir y dar de mamar? Las mujeres nos enfrentamos a una doble presión, ser mamás, como dicta el mantra patriarcal, y triunfar o sobrevivir como podamos en el mercado de trabajo: un ejercicio casi imposible de malabarismos cotidianos. A lo largo de la historia, la maternidad ha sido utilizada como instrumento de control y supeditación de las mujeres. Pero, una vez conquistado el derecho a no ser madres, tenemos pendiente reapropiarnos de la experiencia materna.

Pain is a survival mechanism of fundamental importance. It plays a crucial role in our lives, and eventually molds us into whoever it is that we become. At least it did for Zuri. After her world is brutally destroyed, she feels she has nothing left to hold on to but the fading dream of escaping the ghetto. Young, beautiful, and naïve, she is drawn into the world of sex and money, working at a hole in the wall strip club in South Philly.

Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither ethnic origin nor religious denomination - only friendship and a rage against the unconscionable sectarian divide turning their lives into war-zone rubble. To lay bare the ugly truths, they form the protest group Fuada’s Kids. Their righteous transgressions have made them targets of both Sunni and Shi’a extremists. They’ve also elicited the concern of Fahd’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who cautions them that should they anger God, the sky will surely fall.

Baby Girl McCoy was given her name when her mother couldn’t even be bothered to give her another one in the hospital after she gave birth. Baby Girl was the product of rape, and she spends her life in a quest for a father figure. Never in a million years did she imagine that she’d find it in the man that she does.