Risultati per "Amsterdam" in Narrativa letteraria

Molly Lane ha muerto a los cuarenta y seis años de edad. Era una mujer muy libre, muy seductora, y en su entierro se encuentran presentes los cuatro hombres más importantes de su vida: Clive Linley, músico famoso; Vernon Halliday, periodista y director de uno de los grandes periódicos del país; George Lane, su poderoso y multimillonario marido, y Julian Garmony, un notorio político de derechas, actual ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y candidato a primer ministro.

Bogotá, Bangkok,Santo Domingo, Madrid y finalmente Ámsterdam - sus calles,el Distrito Rojo, las cabinas y la casa de Ana Frank- son los escenarios de esta historia que mezcla ale amor, la prostitución y la solidaridad entre tres mujeres con pasados y culturas diferentes que luchan por...

Piet Verboom hat sich den Strick genommen – so zumindest sieht es aus, als Adjudant Grijpstra und Brigadier de Gier am Tatort eintreffen. Bei näherem Hinsehen hatten jedoch viele Menschen eine Rechnung mit dem Toten zu begleichen. Die beiden Ermittler gehen vor wie immer: Sie warten in aller Ruhe ab und machen dann einen entscheidenden Fehler, der sie einen großen Schritt weiterbringt.

Brought to you by Penguin. On a chilly February day two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence, Clive as Britain's most...

'Llamadas de Ámsterdam' es una extraordinaria historia de amor. Con una impecable tensión narrativa, Juan Villoro despliega una trama hecha de coincidencias, separaciones, misteriosas oportunidades de reencuentro. La acción ocurre en una calle circular, tratada sobre la pista donde una vez...

Jemand hat den einunddreißigjährigen Tom Wernekink in dem kleinen Haus am Deich mit einem Schuss zwischen die Augen getötet. Den Nachbarn ist dieser Mord ein Rätsel. Adjudant Grijpstra und Brigadier de Gier wollen Bewegung in die Sache bringen und verhaften die ältliche Studienrätin von nebenan. Und es kommt Bewegung in die Sache. Ein Mensch wird sterben, ein anderer eine lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe verbüßen.

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and...

Adjutant Grijpstra und Brigadier de Gier werden zu einem Hausboot gerufen. Ein Nachbar ist in Sorge um die schöne Maria van Buren. Zu Recht. Jemand hat die junge Frau ermordet. Schon nach den ersten Ermittlungen stellt sich heraus, dass sie die Geliebte von drei Männern war. Doch da keiner der Männer in der Lage oder bereit ist, Einzelheiten über das Leben der Toten zu liefern, fliegt der Commissaris, der Vorgesetzte von Grijpstra und de Gier, nach Curaçao.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan, read by Billy Howle. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers...

Now a television miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBS Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant...

WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of...

Evan's job is to help people die. Evan is a nurse, a suicide assistant. His job is legal - just. He's the one at the hospital who hands out the last drink to those who ask for it. Evan's friends don't know what he does during the day. His mother, Viv, doesn't know what he's up to at night. And his supervisor suspects there may be trouble ahead. As he helps one patient after another die, Evan pushes against the limits of the law - and his own morality.

A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky...

A masterful new story charts the circuitous course of the sole surviving work of a female Dutch painter This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the...

In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves...

“Rich and colorful… [Refuge] has the kind of immediacy commonly associated with memoir, which lends it heft, intimacy, atmosphere.” –New York Times The moving lifetime relationship between a father and a daughter, seen through the prism of global immigration and the contemporary refugee...

The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle époque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest...

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he...

Ian McEwan’s mastery dazzles us in this superbly deft and witty audiobook of betrayal and intrigue, love, and the invented self. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue...