Showing results for "Briefe" in Literary Fiction

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a...

Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of the Tangled series, returns with the first installment of the Legal Briefs series! A Washington, DC, defense attorney, Stanton Shaw keeps his head cool, his questions sharp, and his arguments irrefutable. They don’t call him the Jury Charmer for...

Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of the Tangled series, returns with a funny, romantic, sexy story! A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When you’re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive...

Em 3 de dezembro de 1976, às vésperas das eleições na Jamaica e dois dias antes de Bob Marley realizar o show Smile Jamaica para aliviar as tensões políticas em Kingston, sete homens não identificados invadiram a casa do cantor com metralhadoras em punho. O ataque feriu Marley, a esposa e o empresário, entre várias outras pessoas. Poucas informações oficiais foram divulgadas sobre os atiradores. No entanto, muitos boatos circularam a respeito do destino deles. Breve história de sete assassinatos é uma obra de ficção que explora esse período instável na história da Jamaica e vai muito além.

The story is about three women, one of them has mental illness; they are just girls that were growing up in a typical Yoruba family. There is a kind of loss involved so they were moved around among relatives as house-helps to take care of the children. I’m following the journey of these three women.

A darkly funny meditation on creativity and family, Be Brief and Tell Them Everything tracks the life of a middle-aged author who is struggling to write his next novel while trying to come to grips with his son's disabilities, set against a backdrop of ecological catastrophe and escalating human insanity in contemporary Los Angeles. A beautiful, powerful, concise work of autofiction, Be Brief documents the stops and starts of adulthood and marriage, and the joys and challenges of parenting, while defining what it means to be a good man, and a good writer.

Die Magie der letzten Zeilen. London, 1940. Als die Krankenschwester Elsie einem Patienten anbietet, seiner Familie einen tröstenden Brief zu schreiben, hat sie eine Idee. Sie beginnt ein Buch mit letzten Briefen: Botschaften, die im schlimmsten Fall an die Angehörigen verwundeter Soldaten geschickt werden sollen, damit niemand ohne einen letzten Abschied zurückbleibt. Doch eine Nachricht wird Elsies Leben für immer verändern.

Anne ist eine junge Frau, die ihr Leben im Griff hat. Doch als sie beim Staubwischen ein Schreiben von einer ihr unbekannten Dame findet, gerät ihr Dasein aus den Fugen. Es kommt zum Streit und Anne muss sich entscheiden, ob sie ihm vertraut oder nicht.

Wie kaum eine Autorin ihrer Zeit hat Susanne Kerckhoff den Verlust der moralischen Integrität der Deutschen, ihre Schuld an den Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus und die Frage der daraus resultierenden geistigen Neuorientierung zum Mittelpunkt ihres literarischen Schaffens gemacht. Ein bedeutendes Zeugnis dieser Auseinandersetzung ist ihr kurzer, 1948 erschienener halbfiktiver Briefroman "Berliner Briefe". In diesem Buch richtet Helene, eine im zerstörten Berlin lebende Frau, nach Kriegsende dreizehn Briefe an ihren nach Paris emigrierten jüdischen Jugendfreund Hans.

Wenn man fällt, dann zumeist tief! Doch ist dies ein Problem? Vierzehn Geschichten, erzählt von Tina Winkler, verfangen sich in einer Navigationsautonomie der persönlichen Lageveränderung!

Neste audiolivro, a protagonista, uma mulher de 75 anos, ocupa-se em desvendar a origem da espécie humana enquanto conta sua vida doméstica, falando do seu casamento e do relacionamento com o seu filho. Uma prosa profunda, que mergulha na angústia humana, sem abrir mão da irreverência e do humor.