Ergebnis für "Doppelgänger" in Belletristik

St. Petersburg, 19. Jahrhundert. Titularrat Jakow Petrowitsch Goljadkin ist ein schüchterner, niederer Beamter, ein unsicherer Außenseiter ohne gesellschaftlichen Umgang und berufliche Anerkennung. Auch bei Frauen hat er keinen Erfolg - seine Liebe zu Klara Olsufjewna, der Tochter eines einflussreichen Staatsrats, bleibt ohne Erwiderung. Sein ereignisloses Leben ändert sich abrupt, als er während eines nächtlichen Spaziergangs auf seinen Doppelgänger trifft. Wer ist diese Person, die Goljadkin aufs Haar gleicht?

The year is 1942. In New York City, the German spy dutifully follows orders from the Third Reich, climbing the corporate ladder as part of his cover. Everything is perfect until one night when his wife discovers his shocking secret. In Germany, one of the US Army's deadliest commandos parachutes to earth. His mission: wreak havoc from behind enemy lines. But something goes terribly wrong during his jump, leaving him with a lethal injury and a crucial choice. It's kill or be discovered. Two years later, as the parallel plots converge, the American doggedly stalks the German spy.

Matt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing out. His cat is dead. His wife and daughter have left him. He’s estranged from his adoptive family. People bump into him on the street as if he isn’t there. He is pretty sure he’s disappearing. His girlfriend, Yumi, is less convinced. But then she runs into someone who looks exactly like her, and her doppelgänger turns out to have dated someone who looks exactly like Matt.

Ava would never move to a small town just because she met someone online—except she kind of did. The first surprise is that she shares a workplace with her mystery man, Tanner, and the chemistry is just as strong as their online friendship was. But the biggest shock is that Ava's the mirror image of Maggie St. Giles, who died five years ago. And this might be a problem for Tanner, who was married to her.

Three years ago mortuary cosmetologist Phoebe Glassman lost her husband in a tragic accident. No longer the hopeful wife and mother she once was, Phoebe is disappearing into her grief and into the quietude of her job - restoring to the dead the illusion of life. Then the body of a woman named Pauline Steele arrives in the mortuary, and for Phoebe, everything changes. Pauline is unmistakably Phoebe’s mirror image and bears an alarmingly familiar tattoo. Even more startling is that among Pauline’s effects is a faded photograph of Phoebe.