Showing results for "Dry" in Literary Fiction

Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, the risks and rewards in Marcia's life amplify forever.

Dry handelt vom Trinken und wie es ein Leben bestimmt. Und es handelt vom Aufhören. Dass sich eine Frau aus der Abhängigkeit ins Schreiben begibt. Klar tritt sie eine Reise in die Kindheit, zum früh verstorbenen Mann, zu den eigenen Rollen als Mutter, Geliebte, Tochter an. Christine Koschmieder scheint immer alles geschafft zu haben: Sie hat den Tod ihres Mannes verarbeitet, drei Kinder großgezogen, Karriere im Kulturbetrieb gemacht. Heimlich geholfen hat ihr dabei der Alkohol. Doch mit Ende 40 weiß sie nicht mehr weiter und liefert sich in eine Suchtklinik ein.

Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy.

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small multiracial island in the Indian Ocean. "The beauty of Busjeet's splendid, often...

Yūko è in grado di vedere cose che gli altri non vedono, e di indovinare i desideri e i pensieri di chi le sta intorno grazie a una sensibilità fuori dal comune. Compiuti quattordici anni, tutto sembra assumere sfumature misteriose, e il mondo si popola di bizzarre creature. Yūko sta imparando ad assegnare un colore a ogni stato d'animo e a ogni emozione; a insegnarglielo è Kyū, il suo maestro di disegno, che ha il doppio dei suoi anni. Quando dal fusto di una pianta fuoriescono degli strani omini verdi, loro sono gli unici a vederli.

In Ruby's never-ending quest for calm, the couple moves to her small hometown in rural north Texas and then out into the desert of New Mexico, where Ruby breaks down and runs off with a boyfriend from 20 years before. The story takes place in the mind of Whiteboy as he drives back to Texas in an attempt to find Ruby, and, perhaps, to kill her.