Ergebnis für "Europa" in Coming of Age

Die 15-jährige Lies wacht eines Morgens mit dem starken Gefühl auf, dass ihrer Mutter Jet etwas passiert ist. Ihr Bett ist unberührt, sie hat ihr Handy zurückgelassen und sie bleibt spurlos verschwunden. Der Vater - in einer neuen Beziehung mit der jüngeren Laure lebend - deutet die kommentarlose Abwesenheit seiner Ex als einen willkommenen Beweis ihrer psychischen Instabilität und ihrer Unfähigkeit, sich um die Kinder zu kümmern. Sie hätte die Scheidung niemals überwunden und beschlossen, zu verschwinden.

Das Buch erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von Theo Sattler. Er wächst als Sohn eines Hunsrückbauern in Morbach auf. Als er vierzehn Jahre alt ist, wandert die Familie nach Amerika aus. Der Vater hat den ältesten Sohn Paul vorausgeschickt, dem sie nach New-York folgen. Nach einer langen und beschwerlichen Reise, auf der die Mutter verstirbt kommen Vater und Sohn in Amerika an. Von Paul fehlt jede Spur und die beiden durchleben eine schwere Anfangszeit. Die harte Arbeit im Hafen kostet auch dem Vater das Leben. Nun muss sich Theo allein in New York durchschlagen.

When Cara stumbles across a stash of old postcards in the attic, their contents make her question everything she thought she knew. The story she pieces together is confusing and unsettling, and appears to have been patched over with lies. But who can tell her the truth? With her father sinking into Alzheimer’s and her brother reluctant to help, it seems Cara will never find the answers to her questions. One thing is clear, though: someone knows more than they’re letting on.

1913, un paquebot quitte l'Europe. À son bord, trois jeunes en quête d'une seconde chance. Rosetta, jeune femme indépendante et rebelle, fuit son village italien. À la mort de ses parents, harcelée et violentée par la pègre, ayant perdu son honneur, elle n'a eu d'autre choix que d'abandonner la ferme familiale. Rocco, fier et fougueux jeune homme, laisse derrière lui sa Sicile natale. Il cherche à échapper à la Mafia locale, à laquelle il a refusé de se soumettre.

When the Croatian War of Independence breaks out in her hometown of Vukovar in the summer of 1991, she is nine years old, nestled within the embrace of family with her father, mother, and older brother. She is sent on a seaside vacation to be far from the hostilities. Meanwhile, her father has disappeared while fighting with the Croatian forces. By the time she returns at summer's end, everything has changed.

Twenty-year-old Flora Kerner has arrived in Baden-Baden, the “Summer Capital of Europe.” Having spurned the family seed trade, Flora has instead chosen to accept a floristry apprenticeship in the famed German spa town. She is a quick study in the art of flower arranging, but progress is slower in matters of the heart.

Ashley Dunne is a bad boy, a notorious member of Dublin’s most ruthless gang. But when privileged daddy’s girl Ryan Mahony finds herself living on an urban estate they control, she can’t help feeling he’s not that bad at all. Ryan and Ash were never meant to cross paths: she’s always been sheltered by her successful barrister father. But when he’s unexpectedly sent to prison, she’s forced to move in with estranged relatives in the city, where a chance encounter with Ash sends sparks flying.

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They provide a portrait of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. Each of the stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and together they paint a portrait of a nation. Ireland was at a crossroads of history and culture at that time, pursuing a search for national identity and purpose.

Tariq Khan is a Pakistani born and raised in Norway. An outsider in his own country - adrift between two worlds divided by class, race, and culture - he’s always been searching for home. Alongside a flock of other streetwise young men, each looking for direction and each easily susceptible, Tariq finds his cause in the Muslim revival. Idealistic, driven by faith, and empowered with purpose, he’s drawn to radical Islam - his last resort for achieving a sense of belonging. It’s only when he enlists in the war against Assad that Tariq’s eyes are truly opened.

Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.

Esther est une enfant de droite née par hasard dans une famille de gauche, au mitan des années 70. Chez elle, tout le monde vit nu. Et tout le monde - sauf elle - est excentrique. Sa mère est une secrétaire anticapitaliste qui ne jure que par Mai 68. Son père, juif pied-noir, conjure son angoisse d'un prochain holocauste en rédigeant des listes de tâches à accomplir. Dans la famille d'Esther, il y a également un frère hyperactif et des grands-parents qui soignent leur nostalgie de l'Algérie en jouant à la roulette avec les pois chiches du couscous.

Juliette has come to Tel Aviv to be with the love of her life. But when she shows up at Elias’s apartment, he’s with another woman. With nowhere else to go, Juliette falls in with a tight-knit group of French expats living in this city by the sea. There’s Manu, the retired adult film star turned real estate agent; Diabolo, a former mobster and aspiring media mogul; and Olga, a head-turning beauty who becomes fast friends with Juliette. When Elias, a film school dropout, initiates a scheme intended to make him some fast cash, he unwittingly gets Juliette and Olga thrown in jail.

As war rages over Europe, Barbara Sinclair is desperate to escape from her unhappy home, which is a target of the German Luftwaffe. Caught up by the emotion of the moment, she agrees to marry John, her childhood friend who's leaving to join the RAF; but a meeting with Simon Farley, the son of a local industrialist, and an encounter with Alex Everton, a Spitfire pilot, complicate matters.

Una violinista acabada de graduar rep una proposta inesperada. Mentre passeja de nit per Barcelona, fa cerveses amb els amics i esquiva turistes, defuig la pregunta que la remou: Ets prou bona per viure d'allò que estimes? Ho estimes prou per malviure'n?