Ergebnis für "Exil" in Familienleben

Nate, a midlevel money manager on Wall Street, and his girlfriend, Emily, can no longer afford their cramped $5,000-a-month apartment on the Upper East Side. They purchase an idyllic small home in Newport and flee city life with their belongings packed tightly in their Jeep Cherokee, eager to start anew. But within minutes of arriving, the car is stolen and they're left with nothing but the keys to their empty house and a crying son. Over the course of the following three days, as Emily and Nate watch their savings dwindle and tension increase, the secrets they kept from each other in the city emerge - and threaten to destroy their relationship.

Kirstie lives in exile on the small Shetland island of Yell after the end of yet another torrid affair. This time, she knows she went too far. Her desperate behavior caused the breakdown of her lover’s marriage. Taking up residence in her grandparents’ croft, which has lain empty since their deaths, wanting time to reflect on her life and disastrous relationships, Kirstie begins to write about her obsessive behavior. What she hasn’t realized is that the island is full of relatives she never knew she had. 

Alors que le pouls de New York bat au rythme des années 1960 et de la contre-culture, une jeune fille, Ruth, s'y installe pour y suivre ses études en rêvant de devenir journaliste. Elle y découvre l'amitié, le rock, l'amour... tout en se questionnant sur son identité. Pas évident d'avoir laissé derrière elle sa famille et sa terre natale, la République dominicaine... Septembre 1961. Depuis le pont du bateau sur lequel elle a embarqué, Ruth tourne le dos à son île natale, la République dominicaine. En ligne de mire : New York, l'université, un stage au Times.

In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War, Tamar Abadi's world collapses when her sister-in-law is killed in what appears to be a terror attack but what is really the result of a secret relationship with a Palestinian poet. Tamar's husband, Salim, is an Arab and a Jew. Torn between the two identities, and mourning his sister's death, he uproots the family and moves them to the US.

Sabahat, a beautiful young Muslim woman, is known in her family for her intelligence, drive, and stubbornness. She believes there is more in store for her life than a good marriage and convinces her parents to let her pursue her education, rare for young Turkish women in the 1920s. But no one - least of all Sabahat herself - expects that in the course of her studies she will fall for a handsome Armenian student named Aram.

How do you grieve the death of a child? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone’s pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent’s grief all the more clearly.

1977. Le mariage de Zhida se prépare à la Gallifrère, la belle ferme de ses futurs beaux-parents, près de Luçon. Zhida, jeune Chinois du Cambodge, Français "banane" comme il dit - jaune à l'extérieur - a dû partir, seul, pour la France à l'âge de huit ans avec son petit frère, et aller en pension à Romilly. Son père, tout juste arrivé de Hong Kong, et son oncle, qui a pu échapper aux Khmers rouges et émigrer en France, seront là pour son mariage. Au cœur des trois nuits étouffantes de plein été qui précèdent la fête, Zhida revit l'histoire de sa merveilleuse rencontre avec la rousse Gabrielle.