Showing results for "Father" in Biographical Fiction

Cuando Héctor Abad Faciolince, autor de El olvido que seremos, leyó esta primera novela, decidió publicarla de inmediato; muy poco después Lumen se sumaría a su entusiasmo. Tras el éxito en Colombia y mientras Francia prepara su traducción, Cómo maté a mi padre llega a los lectores de ambos lados del océano como una de las revelaciones literarias de los últimos tiempos.

“A COMPASSIONATE story about one of the most consequential Americans of the 20th century.” —Kirkus (STARRED review) An extraordinary work of historical fiction by the co-creator of TWIN PEAKS—a novel about one of FDR’s closest wartime advisers and the president’s final days, INSPIRED...

“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. The great filmmaker...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter—Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph. After the death of her beloved...

Land Where My Fathers Died is the story of a young man's search for identity, love, and his place in the world. While incarcerated six years for a murder he never committed, Jo Shelby Ferguson lost his only family in a highway accident. Upon his release from the Mississippi state penal farm, a trunk, the only earthly possession left to him, yields several bundles of old letters. Upon reading the first letter, he discovers they are written by his great-great-great grandmother.

Thrust into the center of events is Reverend Israel Brewster, an idealistic young minister with a famous grandfather and a tragic past. Meanwhile, Massasoit's son, known as "King Philip" by the English, is tormented by both the present and the past. He is watching the resources and culture of the Wampanoag nation fade away at the hands of the English and desperately wishes to restore hope and security to his people. In a world of religious fervor, devastating sickness, and incessant greed, can the alliance of their forefathers survive?

Punzante y ácida, Padre. Del Seminario al narcotráfico es la primera «narconovela de ficción» basada en hechos reales de una trilogía de José A. Kapelo, que promete «las memorias de un narco español». En esta entrega, se cuentan los inicios en la mafia del protagonista, Antonio, desde que es un adolescente con ansias de poder hasta que comienza a hacerse respetar en un mundo despiadado en el que encaja perfectamente.

Puritans. Quakers. Pirates. Mohawks. Witches. And a brutal war.... If you thought New England was dull in the 1670s, get ready for a history lesson. In the critically acclaimed My Father's Kingdom, debut author James W. George transported his listeners to 1671 New England and the world of Reverend Israel Brewster. Four years later, Brewster is a disgraced outcast residing in Providence and working as a humble cooper, but despite his best efforts, King Philip's War has begun.

The hands we carry are not our own...the lives we lead today are to honor those from whom we received them. A special story from father to son to father.

बाप मेला न कळता भाग २ - एका साधारण माणसाच्या आयुष्यातल्या मजेदार अनुभवांची ही एक उत्कृष्ट कथा

Anais Nin fue una mujer que no aceptó ninguna regla convencional en su búsqueda del amor, del placer sexual y el frenesí de la existencia, con múltiples amantes que completaban su agenda a tiempo completo. Casada con su marido Hugh Guiler, mantuvo relaciones sexuales con infinidad de personas, entre ellas con su primo Eduardo Sanchez, el escritor Henry Miller, su muer June Mansfield, sus dos analistas Dr. René Allendy y Otto Rank, Antonín Artaud, y finalmente con su propio padre Joaquín Nin.