Showing results for "The Tomb" in Literary Fiction

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, and everything is taken from her - home, family, possessions, even her name. She is now known only as Arha, the Eaten One, and guards the shadowy, labyrinthine Tombs of Atuan. Then a wizard, Ged Sparrowhawk, comes to steal the tombs' greatest hidden treasure, the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Tenar's duty is to protect the ring, but Ged possesses the light of magic and tales of a world that Tenar has never known....

Fourteen years ago, nine-year-old Alex Brighton woke alone on a rocky English beach, the wreckage of his father’s plane lost to the waves. Orphaned, unwanted, and illegal in a foreign country, he survived by stealing, begging, and disappearing into the shadows... until the night he broke into Croft Manor and straight into the life of Lara Croft. She didn’t call the police. She took him in. Trained him. Made him her shadow, her partner, her right hand.

The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth's acclaimed novel is the tale of one man's struggle to come to terms with the uncongenial society of post-First World War Vienna and the first intimations of Nazi barbarities.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, héritière de la Neuvième Maison et Nécromancienne hors pair, doit passer à l'action. L'Empereur a invité les héritiers de chacune de ses loyales maisons pour un grand tournoi. Si elle l'emporte, elle deviendra la servante immortelle et tout e-puissante de la Résurrection, mais chaque nécromancien doit être accompagné de son cavalier. Sans le glaive de Gideon, Harrowhark échouera, et la Neuvième Maison périra...

Blanche McCrary Boyd’s first novel in 20 years continues the story of her protagonist Ellen Burns. When Tomb of the Unknown Racist opens in 1999, Ellen - now sober, haunted by her activist past, her failed relationships - is taking care of her demented mother in South Carolina....

作者在22年间寻着前人留下的痕迹，探求历史与人文。他去布拉格寻访卡夫卡，于牛津悼念奥威尔，在瑞典探求赫定的冒险人生，到阿姆斯特丹与巴黎体悟梵高、西奥两兄弟的永恒情谊……作者在22年間尋著前人留下的痕跡，探求歷史與人文。他去布拉格尋訪卡夫卡，於牛津悼念奧威爾，在瑞典探求赫定的冒險人生，到阿姆斯特丹與巴黎體悟梵谷、西奧兩兄弟的永恆情誼……