Ergebnis für "Air" in Zeitgenössische Literatur

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 kostbarste Habe ist die Erinnerung an die Liebe ihrer Eltern. Doch das Leben in der Neuen Welt stellt sie vor schier unüberwindbare Hindernisse.

Christian Krachts neuer Roman führt uns mitten in die wilden, fiebrigen Jahre der Weimarer Republik, als die Filmkultur ihre frühe Blüte erlebte. In Berlin versucht ein Schweizer Filmregisseur, angestachelt von Siegfried Kracauer und Lotte Eisner, den UFA-Tycoon Hugenberg zur Finanzierung eines Film zu überreden, genauer gesagt: Eines Gruselfilms, genauer gesagt: In Japan. Das überschneidet sich mit ebensolchen Plänen im dortigen Kaiserreich, mit denen man dem entstehenden Hollywood-Imperium Paroli bieten will.

In the second novel in the Pop Larkin series, the Larkin family descends upon Brittany in France. Like fish out of water, they find that things don't quite turn out their way: The weather is less than ideal, the food is awful, and the hotel is in a bad state of repair. But things slowly improve as Pop manages to sweet-talk Mlle Dupont, Angela Snow and her sister, Iris; and Charley and Mariette celebrate their first wedding anniversary. A Breath of French Air is a delightful book full of nostalgia, fun, and frivolity.

Brian is 22 years old and lives in California. He's finishing his MBA at Stanford. Brian has planned out his life with his girlfriend, Sarah. But suddenly, she leaves him. Now, he feels the world is over. Until his friend Jeff sends him an email. He lives in Spain and travels the world. Jeff suggests him travelling to other countries. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

There’s not a dare Smoke Burnham won’t take, and there’s not a wager he won’t make. Now he’s betting his life that he can fly his plane, Super Comet - with his pet cheetah Patty coming along for the ride - across the mountains and jungles of South America to a prize-winning payday. All he has to do is out-race the competition, out-maneuver a saboteur, and make out with his girl - who’s determined to bring him down to earth. One thing you can count on - in the air, in a fight, or in his girlfriend’s arms - he’s a man who likes to turn up the heat.

"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. Plot summary: The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him. His tale begins in the spring of 1923, when he was looking for housing in New York City. He finally settles in a converted brownstone on West Fourteenth Street.

Set in England during the War of the Roses, this swashbuckling historical epic tells of a young man betrayed by his brutal guardian and forced to seek the help of a mysterious society. Brimming with action, adventure, suspense, and romance, it is a classic portrait of England during one of its most tumultuous eras.