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Berlin in den Jahren 1897-1900: Das dramatische Finale der großen historischen Saga um eine Berliner Fabrikanten-Familie von Bestseller-Autorin Iny Lorentz Den Familien von Hartung und von Gentzsch stehen im Berlin des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts unruhige Zeiten bevor. Mittlerweile hat Theo von Hartung die Leitung der Tuchfabrik von seinem Vater übernommen, doch immer häufiger werden Aufträge storniert oder unter fadenscheinigen Begründungen die Preise gedrückt. Zur selben Zeit macht Vicky...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The Italian Letters lies in the sensuous curvature of ancient, 20th and 21st century Italy. The sequel to The Cairo Codex follows the adventures of anthropologist Justine Jenner after she is expelled from Egypt in the wake of discovering the diary of the Virgin Mary. Exiled into Tuscany, Justine finds herself embroiled in three interwoven stories of discovery: the long-lost letters of D. H. Lawrence to her great grandmother, Isabella; an ancient tomb revealed the origin and migration of an...
| Автор | Linda Lambert |
Drei Leben. Zwei Welten. Ein Neuanfang. Es ist das Jahr 1913, und eine Schiffsreise nach Buenos Aires verheißt eine zweite Chance für drei junge Menschen: Der Sizilianer Rocco hat den Zorn der Mafia auf sich gezogen, als er sich weigerte, sein Leben in den Dienst der ehrenwerten Gesellschaft zu stellen. Rosetta hat in einem sizilianischen Dorf dem Don die Stirn geboten und nur knapp eine Vergewaltigung überlebt. Die russische Jüdin Raquel ist die einzige Überlebende eines Pogroms, ihre...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Die Flucht ist nur der Anfang Barbados, 1830: Der schwarze Sklavenjunge Washington Black schuftet auf einer Zuckerrohrplantage unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen. Bis er zum Leibdiener Christopher Wildes auserwählt wird, dem Bruder des brutalen Plantagenbesitzers. Christopher ist Erfinder, Entdecker, Naturwissenschaftler – und Gegner der Sklaverei. Das ungleiche Paar entkommt in einem selbst gebauten Luftschiff von der Plantage. Es beginnt eine abenteuerliche Flucht, die die beiden um die halbe...
| Автор | Esi Edugyan |
Als uneheliche Tochter des Schlossherrn hat die junge Magd Resa von ihrer Herrin Rodegard nicht viel Gutes zu erwarten. Unbeabsichtigt kommt sie auch noch den Heiratsplänen in die Quere, die Rodegard für ihre eigene Tochter schmiedet. Kurzerhand lässt Rodegard das Mädchen in ein Berliner Bordell verschleppen. Als Prostituierte gebrandmarkt, gehört Resa zum Abschaum der Gesellschaft. Doch während der blutigen Barrikadenkämpfe der Märzrevolution steht plötzlich ein verletzter junger Mann vor den...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Amsterdam, 1636. Pieter, der neue Lehrling von Rembrandt van Rijn, ist ein Sonderling. Vor allem seine Begeisterung für höhere Mathematik weckt Befremden. Seine Begabung kann er indessen unverhofft anwenden, als auf einmal die Preise für Tulpenzwiebeln in schwindelnde Höhen steigen und Pieter gewisse Gesetzmäßigkeiten erkennt. Doch dann werden mehrere Tulpenhändler tot aufgefunden, und Pieters Meister gerät selbst in den Sog dieser rätselhaften Mordserie. Denn alle Opfer wurden von Rembrandt...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II In September 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland and initiated World War II, a strong strain of isolationism existed in Congress and across the country. The U.S. Army stood at fewer than 200,000 men—unprepared to defend the country, much less carry the fight to Europe and the Far East. And yet,...
| Автор | Paul Dickson |
Behind enemy lines on the island of Saipan-where firing a gun could mean instant discovery and death-the 40 Thieves killed in silence during the grueling battle for Saipan, the D-Day of the Pacific. Now Joseph Tachovsky-whose father Frank was the commanding officer of the 40 Thieves, also called Tachovsky's Terrors-joins with award-winning author Cynthia Kraack to transport listeners back to the brutal Battle of Saipan. Built on hours of personal interviews with WWII veterans, their...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti’s bold and original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Neil Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles,...
| Автор | Luis Sagasti |
One morning, with no warning, Gopal, respected professor, devoted husband, and caring father, walks out on his family for reasons even he cannot articulate. His wife, Sumi returns with their three daughters to the shelter of the Big House, where her parents live in oppressive silence: they have not spoken to each other in 35 years. As the mystery of this long silence is unraveled, a horrifying story of loss and pain is laid bare—a story that seems to be repeating itself in Sumi's...
| Автор | Shashi Deshpande |
After a failed push for political reform, the T’ang era’s greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, was exiled to the southern reaches of China. Thousands of miles from home and freed from the strictures of court bureaucracy, he turned his gaze inward and chronicled his estrangement in poems. Liu’s fame as a prose writer, however, overshadowed his accomplishment as a poet. Three hundred years after Liu died, the poet Su Tung-p’o ranked him as one of the greatest poets of the T’ang, along with Tu...
| Автор | Liu Tsung-yuan |
In this anthology, Vietnamese writers describe their experience of what they call the American War and its lasting legacy through the lens of their own vital artistic visions. A North Vietnamese soldier forms a bond with an abandoned puppy. Cousins find their lives upended by the revelation that their fathers fought on opposite sides of the war. Two lonely veterans in Hanoi meet years after the war has ended through a newspaper dating service. A psychic assists the search for the body of a...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This is the first US publication of the book. Hanna Krall is an internationally acclaimed Polish writer and Holocaust survivor, specializing in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. She is one of the key leading figures of the Polish reportage literary style, and her books regularly sell around twenty thousand copies in their native language. She has been translated into seventeen languages. Chasing the King of Hearts was internationally acclaimed and a bestseller in Poland; it also...
| Автор | Hanna Krall |
“….An expansive, eclectic, and innovative novel.”—Women's Review of Books A modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in which an African woman’s memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible. Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global...
| Автор | Marjolijn de Jager |
Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States of her adulthood. Her memory is undiluted by nostalgia, her ear is perfectly...
| Автор | Shirley Geok-lin Lim |
This contemporary African classic tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, this group of old women is divided by ethnicity, language, class, and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age home they share in Nairobi, they uncover the hidden personal histories that connect them as women: stories of their struggles for self-determination; of conflict, violence, and loss, but also...
| Автор | Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye |
The sole novel of beloved Chicana author Estela Portillo Trambley, Trini is the epic story of one girl's journey across borders and into womanhood. Born in the rural region of the Tarahumara (Raramuri) people in Mexico, Trini shares her family's struggle to squeeze a living out of her beautiful but inhospitable land. But she is sustained by the rich traditions of her Mestiza heritage, the adopted traditions of the Tarahumara, and by her own intelligence and spirit. As a young woman,...
| Автор | Estella Portillo Trambley |
With this critically acclaimed 1940 memoir, pioneering Japanese writer and activist Ayako Ishigaki made history. Restless Wave is the first book written in English by a Japanese woman, introducing Western readers to a largely unknown world; a unique voice; and a writer of great talent, integrity and courage. In exquisite prose, Ishigaki recalls coming of age in a privileged family and rebelling against strict codes of women’s behavior. She also traces the political awakening that would...
| Автор | Ayako Tanaka Ishigaki |
Die ehemalige Wanderhure Marie führt als Frau des Burghauptmanns Michel ein angenehmes Leben am Rhein. In Böhmen aber tobt ein Krieg, in dem Michel nach einem Scharmützel für tot erklärt wird. Marie, die nach zehn Ehejahren endlich schwanger geworden ist, gilt nun als Witwe. Doch sie glaubt nicht an Michels Tod und geht, als Marketenderin verkleidet, auf die Suche nach ihm. Nach vielen Irrfahrten stehen sie sich auf gegnerischen Seiten gegenüber. Ob sie zueinander finden werden?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
• Author has a cult following in the US and an international reputation. • More than 15,000 sold in English. • Widely reviewed on first publication: “[Wicomb’s] prose is vigorous, textured, lyrical. . . . a sophisticated storyteller.” –Bharati Mukherjee, New York Times Book Review “Wicomb deserves a wide American audience, on a par with the fabulous reception her white countrymen Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have...
| Автор | Zoe Wicomb |
A Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican. In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery launched a secret quest that would last decades – a quest to discover the long-lost burial place of the Apostle Peter. From earliest times, Christian tradition held that Peter – a lowly fisherman from Galilee, whom Christ made leader of his Church – was executed in Rome by Emperor Nero and buried...
| Автор | John O'Neill |
August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people here quickly defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning of the Apocalypse is a riveting...
| Автор | Gerald Horne |
All the makings of your favorite adventure story – drama, intrigue, promise, love, hope, and heartache spanning two thousand years…and YOU are a part of it! Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church is a fresh retelling of the history of the Church. In this easy-to-read, not-your-average history book, Steve Weidenkopf introduces you to the vivid, dynamic story of God’s work in the world since Pentecost. Along the way, you will meet the weird, wonderful, and always fascinating heroes and...
| Автор | Steve Weidenkopf |
This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era—changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more—Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these...
| Автор | Charles Upchurch |