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The last shot of world war two has been fired and a boy is born, destined for life in a beautiful fishing village in South West Cornwall. He is surrounded, there, by friends and a loving family and his is a childhood that dreams are made of. But in this village they chain up the swings on Sundays, and as he grows, he finds that puberty and its consequences are hushed up and must never be spoken of.

An impossible decision in the chaos of D-Day. Ripples that cascade seventy-five years into the present. And two lives transformed by the tenuous resolve to reach out of the darkness toward fragments of light. Cancer stole everything from Ceelie—her peace of mind, her selfimage, perhaps even...

Die Geschichte des sechzehnjährigen Karl Roßmann, der nach einem „Skandal" von seinen Eltern in die USA geschickt wird, entwickelt sich zu einer surrealen Odyssee durch Machtverhältnisse, Bürokratie und soziale Kälte. Kafkas Blick auf das „gelobte Land" ist alles andere als idealisierend – die Neue Welt wird zum Schauplatz eines existenziellen Entfremdungsprozesses, meisterhaft erzählt in seiner klaren und beklemmenden Sprache. Amerika oder Der Verschollene ist Franz Kafkas erster Romanentwurf und blieb zu Lebzeiten unvollendet.

His father bent on making him a true Spanish nobleman, romantic young Eduardo crosses the seas to join his bumbling, megalomaniacal uncle, Cortés. Once he arrives in the new world, Eduardo falls passionately in love with an Aztec princess yet still assumes his place as a reluctant conquistador.

Scotland, 1296. The winds of rebellion are blowing. The wars of independence for Scotland are on the brink of changing the history of Great Britain. Under assault from King Edward I, the besieged city of Berwick-upon-Tweed is delivered into the hands of the English, who massacre and burn everything in their path. Aileas and Fillan, 16-year-old orphan twins, get separated on that horrific night. Aileas is carried away and disappears while Fillan manages to join forces with a Scottish clan fleeing to the north, into the very heart of the Highlands.