Ergebnis für "Erinnerungen" in Frauenliteratur

Ein berührender Roman über wertvolle Erinnerungen und schmerzhafte Wahrheiten. Als ihre beste Freundin sie in das Sommerhaus ihrer Familie einlädt, ahnt ...

Johanna liebt ihren Job: Für die Vereinten Nationen ist sie auf humanitären Einsätzen in der ganzen Welt unterwegs. Sie erlebt Kriege, Verfolgung und Hungersnöte hautnah mit. Doch jedes Mal, wenn sie endlich wieder zu ihrer Familie in ihre Wahlheimat New York zurückkehrt, die sie sehnlichst vermisst hat, fühlt sie sich wie ein Gast im eigenen Zuhause. Ihr Mann Ralph und ihre Tochter Elsa sind der Ansicht, dass sie sich mehr um andere kümmert als um die eigene Familie, und haben sich in ihrem Alltag ohne sie eingerichtet.

Angekommen im neuen Leben: Die bewegende Fortsetzung der Historiensaga um den Perlmutthof – von Bestseller-Autorin Bianca Elliott. 1948: Seit Clara den Perlmutthof an der Ostsee ihr neues Zuhause nennt, hat ihr Leben eine Wende genommen. Hamburg ist für immer Geschichte. Ebenso Matteo, der ihr Herz berührt hat, bevor Valentin überraschend aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft heimgekehrt ist. Nach Jahren der Trennung von ihrem Mann will Clara alles versuchen, um die einstige Vertrautheit zwischen ihnen wieder zu spüren.

Come accade che il tempo che abbiamo vissuto diviene la nostra vita? È questo il nodo affrontato da "Gli anni", affresco autobiografico e al contempo cronaca collettiva del nostro mondo dal dopoguerra a oggi, nodo sciolto in un canto indissolubile attraverso la magistrale fusione della voce individuale con il coro della Storia. Annie Ernaux convoca la Liberazione, l’Algeria, la maternità, de Gaulle, il ’68, l’emancipazione femminile, Mitterrand; e ancora l’avanzata della merce, le tentazioni del conformismo, l’avvento di internet, l’undici settembre, la riscoperta del desiderio.

This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons.

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep the child. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist and ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.

I deserve all this because I did the worst thing a woman can do. The very worst. Jessica's wedding was like a fairytale. Her dress strewn with crystals. Her dad made a tearful speech. Her husband Matthew declared himself the luckiest man alive. But when their beautiful baby girl is born, Jessica is gripped by panic. She can't tell anyone how she feels. Even when her life starts to spiral out of control...

Fresh off a breakup with her cheating Italian boyfriend in Como, 24-year-old New Yorker Jayne is emotionally fried and financially...let’s just say her wallet is crying in five languages. She’s got two options: fly home to Manhattan and face her sister’s smug “I told you so,” or stick it out in the land of la dolce chaos and chase her fashion dreams.

Thus the future of Caroline Matilda, youngest sister of George III, was settled – marriage to the nearly insane Prince of Denmark. Prompted by a sense of foreboding, she begged that one of her sisters should be sent in her place. But Caroline was the healthiest, the strongest of the English princesses, and as well as being exiled, princesses were meant to be brood mares…Exiled in a strange country, isolated by her inability to speak the language, Caroline forms a close bond with the King’s doctor, Johann Struensee.

Emma Stutzman's Amish life was abruptly altered when she learned about her husband's sudden and tragic death. Now a single parent, Emma must figure out how to respond to the pressures of modernization and the pull of mainstream culture. Will she regain her strength as a woman after so much stress and tragedy in her married life? How will she lead her children to faith in the Amish Mennonite church without their father?

At last, Juliette is able to join Senator Mike McBride in their new Arlington, VA apartment. After time off for a joyous homecoming, Mike goes to work in his Senate office while Juli unpacks and takes the train downtown for lunch with an old friend, Fran Whittaker, who tells Juli of her suspicions. Soon this dangerous knowledge leads to Fran's disappearance and Juliette's investigative reporter's nose getting her in a whole lot of trouble.

It is 1980, and college roommates Jessica, Tammy, Kelly, and Gabriella, fresh off of receiving their MBAs from Michigan State University, spread across the globe and embark on their new lives, loves, and careers while experiencing the ups and downs, hopes and dreams, twists and turns, and success and failure that life brings.

Between 1941 and 1945, Wynne Brooks waited for her young soldier husband, Mickey, to return to her. In all the time he was away she wrote to him - first daily, then weekly, never knowing his whereabouts. In 1945, at the end of the war, her letters were returned, their messages of comfort and love unread, bearing the War Office stamp "No Trace".