Ergebnis für "Amsterdam" in Literatur & Belletristik

En kold dag i februar mødes de to gamle venner Clive og Vernon uden for et krematorium for at tage afsked med Molly Lane. Clive, der er Storbritanniens mest succesfulde moderne komponist, og Vernon, der er chefredaktør for en af landets største aviser, har begge været Mollys elskere. Det samme har Julian, Storbritanniens udenrigsminister og premiereminister in spe, som også er mødt op til begravelsen, der afholdes af Mollys efterladte ægtemand George.

Eigentlich hat sie es geschafft. Wo sie herkommt, studieren die Menschen nicht, und sie arbeiten auch nicht in einem Amsterdamer Start-up. Doch während der Xerox die Kundenbriefe druckt, wächst ihre Wut: auf die Vergangenheit, die sich nicht abschütteln lässt, ihren Bullshit-Job und die jovialen Phrasen der Kollegen. Doch wie einen Platz finden, wenn alle die Regeln kennen, außer man selbst? Und nur der Drucker einem zuhört? Fien Veldmans gefeiertes Debüt entlarvt die Leere der modernen Arbeitswelt und erzählt die Geschichte einer eigenwilligen jungen Frau, deren verletzlich-bissige Stimme niemand vergisst.

Groen ist zurück! Hendrik Groen genießt sein Leben: schlafen, essen, Schach spielen und mit Fräulein Jansen spazieren gehen. Besonders freut sich der inzwischen Neunzigjährige aber auf die Treffen seines Alanito-Clubs, denn dort wird getrunken, gelacht und auf den Tischen getanzt, fast wie in den guten alten Zeiten. Doch dann muss Hendrik sich der Tatsache stellen, dass er immer vergesslicher wird. Um diesem ärgerlichen Verfall entgegenzuwirken, beschließt er, ein neues Tagebuch zu führen. Dann kann er wenigstens nachlesen, was er vergessen hat - und wenn ihm etwas nicht gefällt, schreibt er es einfach nicht mehr auf!

Im Haus des Antiquitätenhändlers Thören Rosqvana hoffte Dorian Hunter den goldenen Drudenfuß zu finden – das einzige Mittel gegen den Dämonendrilling. Doch der Fund erwies sich buchstäblich als Illusion, und im Kampf gegen den Vampir starb Dorians väterlicher Freund Norbert Helnwein. Rosqvanas Kopf wurde vom Körper getrennt und lebt eigenständig weiter. Dorian kann ihn nicht töten, denn Rosqvana ist der Einzige, der weiß, wo sich der echte Drudenfuß befindet und die Reise nach Amsterdam beginnt.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Falling in love with your husband is anything but convenient in this steamy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Business or Pleasure. Dani Dorfman has somehow made it to her thirties without knowing what she wants to do with her life. So when an office...

My name is Betty. Until a few months ago, I was just like every other nursery teacher in the city… then the Nazis came and began to take our children away. Now, the nursery is part of a German deportation centre. Little ones and their families are being forced across the border, to a place called Auschwitz. No one comes back. So when I hear there’s an underground network to save the children, I know I have to help. Sometimes the parents won’t be parted from them, and sometimes we can’t get to them in time – there are spies everywhere.

En infernalsk historie om venskaber og magtkampe - moral og anstændighed. Om kvinden Molly, der dør, og de fire (!) mænd hun efterlader; ægtemanden George og tre elskere, hvoraf de to forenes i fælles afsky for den tredje. Historien ender i Amsterdam, og slutningen kommer unægtelig bag på de efterladte mænd.

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.

A young woman witnesses a murder in Amsterdam that touches off a Muslim rebellion and leads to the Great Eurabian War - World War III. During her summer break, Ann Aulis travels to Amsterdam with her boyfriend Peter to visit the Anne Frank Museum. They befriend a hip Dutch couple who invites them home for dinner. They spend the night, and the next morning discover their hosts have been murdered. Ann and Peter flee to London only to find the murders have touched off a Muslim rebellion...

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...

Now a PBS Masterpiece television miniseries starring Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves “I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After.” — Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that...

Quattro uomini si ritrovano al funerale della donna che hanno amato. Sono avidi e pieni di rancore, e a partire da quell'evento saranno messi di fronte a scelte etiche fondamentali, che riveleranno la loro spietata natura. È lecito distruggere un uomo politico, sia pure spregevole e privo di scrupoli, attaccandolo sui segreti piú intimi della vita privata? E un grande artista, per assecondare la propria ispirazione, è autorizzato a ignorare una persona che sta rischiando la vita?

When Rosie Harper leaves behind her ordinary life in England to open a flower shop on Amsterdam’s water, she expects nothing less than a fairytale. But the city’s canals have their own currents, bringing far more than she bargained for. Max, her handsome but brooding artist neighbour, prefers to keep the world at arm’s length – and living on a nearby houseboat, he’s not too thrilled about the new company. As Rosie’s business blossoms, so do her feelings for Max, who’s stuck in his past.

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten. Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the...

Amsterdam in the year 1705. It is Thea Brandt’s eighteenth birthday. She is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms, but life at home is increasingly difficult. Her father Otto and her Aunt Nella argue endlessly over their financial fate. As catastrophe threatens to engulf the household, Thea seeks refuge in Amsterdam’s playhouses. She loves the performances, and the stolen moments afterwards are even better. In the backrooms, Thea can spend a few precious minutes with her secret lover, Walter. The thrill of their hidden romance offers Thea an exciting distraction from home.

Amsterdam, 1659: On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city’s close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has suddenly lost...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together. England, 1967. Odelle Bastien...

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...

The New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe—and...

WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST A heartrending novel based on a true story of love, loyalty, and the limits we confront when our deepest values are tested, by award-winning writer Buzzy Jackson How far would you go to protect the...