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New York, 1900. At the dawn of a new century, the city’s streets teem with change: electricity, automobiles, a brash young President Teddy Roosevelt—and the It Girls. As artist’s muses and working models, these independent young women soar to stardom not because of their pedigrees or inherited wealth, but because of their talent, charisma, and irresistible beauty. Pop culture is born, and in a world alight with Mr. Edison’s new bulbs, no one shines brighter than America’s sweetheart, Evelyn Talbot.

As the novel opens, “Violaine” returns to Paris from her adopted home of New York City to visit her dying father for the last time. And as his conversation once again obsessively circles the story of his father’s rise and fall during the war, Violaine, who always felt herself and her mother to be exiles within their own clan, becomes herself obsessed with this myth of her grandfather Georges – and especially with the nearly erased story of the most significant of his many mistresses, a beautiful and aristocratic woman named Choute.

כאבי היום הם סיפורי המחר פצעי אתמול הם שירי המחר ואני מוצא עצמי מספר ואני מוצא עצמי שר וחושב להיום וזוכר העבר ואין מוקדם ואין מאוחר. י. א. שלושת מחזורי הסיפורים...

Mass-murdering authors. Writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring. A pilot who crafts his poetry in the sky. A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of pan-American writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Terrifyingly witty and remarkably inventive, Nazi Literature in the Americas is the virtuosic, one-of-a-kind masterpiece that brought Bolaño fame throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

"الوسية" هي عمل روائي رائع، تعددت الآراء حول العمل حيث قيل إن الوسية رواية مكتملة العناصر الروائية، وإنها سيرة ذاتية، إنها مزج بين السيرة والرواية وأطلق عليها...

"الوارثون" هي الجزء الثاني من ثلاثية خليل حسن خليل (الوسية)، وفي هذا الجزء نجد امتدادًا للسيرة ذاتها حيث يتشعب السرد ليعطي لمحة من التغير في المجتمع المصري (شكلياً)...

Bogotano por accidente es el retrato de un joven norteamericano apabullado por lo que le toca vivir en un mundo ajeno. Se encuentra inmerso, de buenas a primeras, en las calles del Bogotá de inicios de la década de los noventa, época de imprevisibles atentados criminales de la mafia. Lejos de...

Im Hungerwinter 1946/47 begegnet Hedi, hochschwanger und junge Flüchtlingsfrau aus Pommern, Alfons Müller-Wipperfürth, einer der schillerndsten Gestalten im Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit. Als alleinerziehende Mutter kämpft Hedi gegen Vorurteile und Misstrauen. Aber ihre beharrliche Suche nach Freundschaft und Liebe wird belohnt – bis vollkommen unerwartet der Vater ihres Kindes vor der Tür steht.

Les femmes, ces grandes oubliées de l’Histoire. Mais comment auraient-elles pu y obtenir leur juste place lorsque seuls les hommes l’écrivaient ? Montluçon, 1816. La jeune Héloïse de la Roche, aristocrate à l’avenir tout tracé, crée le scandale en refusant d’épouser l’homme choisi par sa mère. Après plusieurs années passées au couvent, Héloïse, rebelle et intrépide, s’installe à Paris, où elle découvre une misère qu’elle n’aurait jamais imaginée. Un Paris du début du XIXe siècle, où la population des laissés-pour-compte tente de survivre, où tout s’achète et tout se vend.

This is a true story about a power struggle in a part of the country that has been forgotten about by some and never known about by others. In an area where opportunity is not abundant and young people rarely see a bright future, there will always be predators who are able to take advantage of the vulnerable and wreak havoc on their communities. When bad people intend to do harm, there are good people who will try to intervene for the benefit of the downtrodden. This all too often brings about a clash of wills.

Una rebelión contra el mundo, contra su familia y contra la sociedad. Salí corriendo de repente. Sólo me dio tiempo a oír a mi madre, que decía Pero ¿qué hace ese idiota? No quería estar con ellos, me negaba a compartir con ellos ese momento. Yo estaba ya lejos, había dejado de pertenecer a su mundo, la carta lo decía. Salí al campo y estuve andando gran parte de la noche: el ambiente fresco del norte, los caminos de tierra, el olor de la colza, muy intenso en esa época del año. Dediqué toda la noche a elaborar mi nueva vida, lejos de allí.

November 1539. Sent as a bride for the much-married King of England, Anna of Cleves has left her homeland and family behind to travel to England. There to be wed to a man who has killed one wife, and perhaps caused the deaths of two more, Anna fears her marriage and husband, yet she has been promised to Henry VIII to secure alliance for her country, and safety for her people. But will there be safety for Anna? Into a court of scandal and cutthroat politics she is thrown, and only by her wits will she survive.

1522, England. Anne Boleyn has lived an adventurous youth in the glittering courts of Europe, now, promised in marriage to a man she knows nothing of, Anne has been called home by her ambitious father. She will enter the English Court, to find many admirers courting her. Anne finds potential for love in three men, but there is one... more unexpected than all the others, who claims her heart. The beginning of a love which would change the course of English history, and shake the foundations of the Church... The courtier's daughter who captured the heart of a king, Anne Boleyn.

Bujar inventa continuamente se stesso e la propria storia, come un impostore che si appropria dei frammenti che carpisce agli altri, del passato delle persone che ha amato, dei loro nomi, perché può scegliere chi vuole essere, il paese da cui proviene, i dettagli della propria esistenza. Perché, come dice lui stesso, «nessuno è tenuto a rimanere la persona che è nata, possiamo ricomporci come un nuovo puzzle».

L’opera al nero è la storia di un personaggio immaginario, Zenone, medico, alchimista, filosofo, dalla nascita illegittima a Bruges nei primi anni...

Eylau, c'est la rencontre paroxystique de l'Histoire et de la géographie. Une bataille napoléonienne qui a lieu le 8 février 1807 contre les Russes, en Prusse orientale, là où se trouvait autrefois la célèbre Königsberg fondée par les chevaliers teutoniques. Aujourd'hui Eylau est située dans l'enclave de Kaliningrad, territoire russe séparé de la Russie par la Pologne et la Lituanie. Jean-Paul Kauffmann qui s'était rendu une première fois à Kaliningrad en 1991 voulait y revenir mais, cette fois, en famille. Un voyage de cohésion familiale en quelque sorte.

Mare Internum, 75 v. Chr. Ein Handelsschiff steuert die Insel Rhodos an. An Bord: Julius Cäsar, begleitet von seinem Getreuen Titus Labienus. Von seinen Feinden ins Exil getrieben, ist er auf dem Weg zu Apollonius Molon, einem der bedeutendsten Rhetoriklehrer der damaligen Zeit, um seine Redekunst zu verfeinern und so gewappnet zu sein für seine nächsten Schritte auf seinem Weg an die Spitze der politischen Macht. Ein monumentaler Roman, der uns den wahren Preis der Macht vor Augen führt: Julius Cäsar muss erfahren, dass Rom alles dafür verlangt, sogar sein wertvollstes Gut.

In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet—a teasing tribute to Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces.

Esa noche, otro sueño profundo se apoderó de él; y una vez más vio al ángel que había entregado personalmente los preceptos del pacto noájida. Ella dijo: —Noé, ¿por qué dudas, hijo mío? Él respondió: —He fracasado. Soy un fracaso. Realmente deberías buscar a alguien más calificado para esta tarea. Ni siquiera sé exactamente qué es, pero sé que no soy apto para ello. Soy el opuesto de Midas. Todo lo que toco se convierte en polvo y cenizas. —Eres muy duro contigo mismo, Noé. Lo que se te ha confiado no es fácil. No es para cualquiera. Fuiste elegido por una razón.

À vingt ans, j'ai arrêté d'écouter les gens et je suis partie. Seule, en stop et sans un sou en poche. J'ai traversé l'Europe jusqu'au Cap Nord, sans autre but que de ne pas pourrir chez moi. On peut dire que j'ai fui. C'était mon premier grand voyage.