Ergebnis für "Esmeralda" in Literatur & Belletristik

De la galardonada autora bestseller de Cuando era puertorriqueña, nos llega una poderosa novela sobre la familia, la raza, la fe, el sexo y el desastre que transita entre Puerto Rico y el Bronx, revelando las vidas y los amores de cinco mujeres, y el secreto que las une.

A former military dog, a Venezuelan street mutt, and a cannibalistic Shih Tzu, who have lost their owners, escape rescue cages. Now they have to learn to survive together in a colonial Ecuadorian mountain town, bisected by winding rivers that descend to the Amazon.

Dos historias de amor separadas en el tiempo pero unidas por el misterio de un cuadro desaparecido. Un peligroso juego de amenazas e intereses ocultos que cambiará las vidas de los protagonistas para siempre.

Die Karibik, Griechenland, Manhattan, ein Gefängnis für Witschaftsdelikte und das Weltall sind die Schauplätze...

"Esmeralda – Vergeltung": Dorian Hunter liegt im Krankenhaus! Auf die schlagartige Erinnerung an sein zweites Leben als Juan Garcia de Tabera folgte der totale körperliche Zusammenbruch. Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts erlebte de Tabera den Prozess gegen das unschuldige Mädchen Esmeralda. Der Beginn einer feurigen Liebschaft, die tragisch endete – und deren Schatten bis in die Gegenwart reicht. Epilog "Schneesturm": Während Dorian Hunter den Spuren seines zweiten Lebens folgt, macht FBI-Agent und Dämonenjäger Timothy Morton auf seinem Weg nach New York in einem Café an der amerikanischen Ostküste Station.

Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison, and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists, and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it.

Auf der Suche nach Informationen über seine vergangenen Leben stößt Dorian Hunter auf Aufzeichnungen aus der Zeit der spanischen Inquisition. Im Jahre 1506 wird das Mädchen Esmeralda der Hellseherei angeklagt und gezwungen, fortan mit der Inquisition zusammenzuarbeiten. Ihre erste Aufgabe ist es, etwas über einen jungenden Mann herauszufinden: Juan Garcia de Tabera.

Don DeLillo er af en af vor tids største forfattere. Hans første novellesamling indeholder ni noveller, der er skrevet mellem 1979 og 2011, og som spejler det amerikanske samfund på godt og ondt og berører emner, der har optaget det amerikanske samfund i perioden. De øvrige noveller er: "Skaberværk", "Menneskelige øjeblikke i Tredje Verdenskrig", "Løberen", "Elfenbensakrobaten", "Baader-Meinhof", "Midnat hos Dostojevskij", "Hammer og segl", "Den forsultne".

Este libro es cuestión de cartas. Y de emails. Y de mujeres, porque 10 mujeres son sus autoras. Creemos que también sus personajes. Y, ¿de qué hablan? Pues ¿de qué van a hablar? De lo que piensan, de lo que hacen, de sus hijos, de sus amores y pasiones, de sus innumerables dudas y certezas...

América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don’t look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their 14-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester, New York, she takes it as a sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for.

The Cruise of the Esmeralda is a thrilling treasure-hunting adventure. Captain Saint Leger, left penniless after his father’s death, sets sail to uncover a family fortune lost in the Eastern Seas. Along the way, he faces storms, pirates, and mutiny in this high-seas classic.

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together.

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente - both in love with Ana - she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just 18, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside....

Un'antica leggenda narra di un uomo che osò amare una dea e di una dea che rinunciò all'immortalità per amore di un uomo. Quell'uomo è Arumna, principe Seianti, che per difendere la sua Tuscia dalla minaccia di Roma sarà costretto a compiere delle scelte difficili. Amori e alleanze inaspettate saranno la cornice della sua personale battaglia contro i Figli di Marte, contro le ingiustizie, contro il destino. E la Tomba degli Amanti sigillerà per sempre il suo segreto. Riuscirà Velia, archeologa ormai disillusa, a riportare alla luce l'amore tormentato di un uomo e di una dea?

In het Iran van de zeventiende eeuw bereikt een veertienjarig meisje de huwbare leeftijd. Maar in plaats van een prachtige toekomst kondigt een onheilspellende komeet boven de woestijn ongeluk en tegenspoed aan. Als haar vader plotseling overlijdt en geen bruidsschat achterlaat, beginnen het meisje en haar moeder noodgedwongen een nieuw leven in de sprookjesachtige stad Isfahan. Haar oom - een rijke tapijtmaker - en zijn echtgenote nemen de twee vrouwen met tegenzin naar huis. Onder begeleiding van haar oom ontwikkelt het meisje zich tot een briljant tapijtknoopster.

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Fumar en una bañera no tendría nada particularmente interesante salvo si lo hacemos con alguien más, y justo eso es lo que ocurre en este libro: dos amigas se dan un baño juntas, se relajan y se fuman un cigarro mientras se expresan sus confidencias ante la perplejidad y la reconstrucción emocional a las que se ven abocadas tras salir ambas de una larga relación.

When Quasimodo appears before the masses as the "Pope of Fools," the crowd beholds an enormous cyclops-like creature—the hunchback's whole body seems a twisted grimace. Yet, with all his deformity, there is a certain grace and agility in him, and he possesses an endearing passion. When Esmerelda, the beautiful Romani woman, stands between his two executioners, Quasimodo makes the ultimate sacrifice.

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