Showing results for "To Father" in Literature & Fiction

This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.

‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives. ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and...

Franz Kafka'nın 'Babaya Mektup' adlı eseri, edebiyat dünyasının en çarpıcı itiraflarından birini barındırır. Kafka'nın kendi babası Hermann Kafka'ya yazdığı bu mektup, yazarın iç dünyasının derinliklerine bir yolculuk sunar. Mektup, Kafka'nın babasıyla karmaşık ilişkisini, ondan aldığı baskıyı ve bu baskının yazarın kişiliği ile yaratıcılığı üzerindeki etkisini detaylı bir şekilde ele alır.

The final novel in The Seven Sisters series is here. Narrated by Richard Armitage and Tuppence Middleton. Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning...

“‘There are no miracles,” says Rita …. ‘Miracles are simply misunderstandings. Or worse, cons.’” –The Lion Is In Tracee is a runaway bride and kleptomaniac. Lana’s an audacious beauty, a recovering alcoholic. Rita is a holy-roller minister’s wife, desperate to escape her...

A "shamelessly funny" (Kirkus) and utterly original new novel from Mark Leyner about a father and his intense and devout relationship with his daughter and with alcohol. An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capital of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on...

Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series. Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he...

Der Brief an den Vater ist ein 1919 verfasster, niemals abgeschickter Brief Franz Kafkas an seinen Vater. Er wurde postum 1952 in der Neuen Rundschau veröffentlicht und ist ein bevorzugter Text für psychoanalytische und biographische Studien über Kafka.

Es el nombre dado comúnmente a la carta que Franz Kafka escribió a su padre Hermann en noviembre de 1919, criticándolo por su conducta emocionalmente abusiva e hipócrita hacia él. El texto resulta de vital importancia para comprender la relación de Kafka con su padre, aspecto elemental en la biografía del autor.

Este audiolibro, narrado con sensibilidad, te llevará a un viaje emocional que resuena con cualquiera que haya enfrentado conflictos familiares. "Carta al padre" no es solo una carta, sino una profunda reflexión sobre las relaciones humanas, perfecta para momentos de introspección y autodescubrimiento.

In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring...

Carta al padre es el nombre dado comunmente a la carta que Franz Kafka escribió a su padre Hermann en noviembre de 1919, criticándolo por su conducta emocionalmente abusiva e hipócrita hacia él. Estas cartas revelan aspectos desconocidos del autor.

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrilling novel of love, war and friendship, To Sing of War. Longlisted 2024 ARA Historical Novel Prize 'Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction' Books+Publishing DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a...

When death is dancing closer than you'd like, what becomes important? What do you need to tell your child? And how do you want to be remembered? A beautiful, tender, funny and poignant guide on how to really live, from a mother to her daughter. Ella Ward comes from a long line of irrepressibly...

HUNTED. ALONE. AFRAID... A heart-in-the-mouth and utterly addictive adventure thriller from a phenomenal debut Australian talent. UN surgeon Rachel Forester is posted at a remote medical clinic deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With violence escalating in the region, Dr...

Where there's a will, can love find a way? When cynical divorce lawyer Daisy Jackson unexpectedly inherits a ramshackle farmhouse in Provence, she sets off for the French countryside to oversee renovations herself. But Gabriel Laforet has other ideas. A local builder with ties to the property...

A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 1930s. Blue Laurence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join the Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression...

""It’s almost uncanny how well Mr. Horowitz summons Bond’s mindset . . . Yet this Bond also feels the winds of change: 'He had his licence to kill. But was it possible that in this new, more questioning age, that licence might have expired?' A drop of retro pleasures, a pinch of things to...

Riley's father-in-law arrives in California and goads him into demanding a raise from his boss.

By the author of the New York Times bestseller, Love Poems for Married People, and the Thurber Prize-winner Truth in Advertising comes a wry yet tenderhearted look at how one man's public fall from grace leads him back to his family, and back to the man he used to be. It's a story that Ted...