Ergebnis für "Bora Bora" in Belletristik

En la mejor línea homérica, Vázquez-Figueroa representa en Bora Bora el rapto de una princesa y la persecución subsiguiente. En esta ocasión, el autor se acerca a la cultura polinesia y nos presenta la vida de una apacible isla del Pacífico Sur que de pronto se ve asaltada por barcos bárbaros, que causan estragos entre la población local y se llevan a su princesa. Los supervivientes perseguirán a los atacantes y se embarcarán en una aventura en alta mar plagada de peligros de toda índole, presentados con la ágil prosa de Vázquez-Figueroa en su tradición de novelas aventureras.

From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears—and deepest desires. Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity...

Pachinko meets Homegoing in this powerful story of family separation and reunion amid love and war from a Reese’s Book Club LitUp fellow. When news hits in 1950 that the Americans have entered the war between North and South Korea, Oksoon and her family believe the conflict will soon end. But...

Os contos presentes em Coelho maldito, livro finalista do International Booker Prize, transitam entre realismo mágico, folclore, horror, ficção científica e fantasia, partindo de elementos insólitos para narrar histórias assombrosas que tocam em temas profundamente reais. Em uma família cujos negócios consistem em criar objetos de maldição, o avô relembra um episódio envolvendo um amigo de infância e um abajur amaldiçoado em formato de coelho.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Always and Blackberry Winter, a sweeping World War II saga of thwarted love, murder, and a long-lost painting. In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific...

“Powerfully unique and thoughtfully written, with the ability to carry you to places you’ve yet to imagine and return you to places you’ve tried to escape.” —Chicago Review of Books “Every story in Portalmania is distinctive, vital, and sophisticated; the whole is an almost perfectly...

In 334 BC Alexander the Great begins his conquest of the Persian Empire. But his plans for everlasting glory do not end there, and the young king marches towards the Ends of the Earth - the lands of the Indus - on a secret quest. It will lead him to an ancient secret concealed in the myths of the Mahabharata - a secret that is powerful enough to transform him into a god. Present day. In Greece the ancient tomb of a queen is discovered, a tomb that has been an enigma for over 2,000 years.