Ergebnis für "Goats" in Belletristik

"Keine Freude war so unmittelbar und vollkommen wie die des Tötens..." Etwas Besonderes soll er werden, der erste richtige Jagdausflug des elfjährigen Jungen mit seinem Vater, seinem Großvater und einem Freund des Vaters. Als sie das Jagdrevier der Familie erreichen, sehen sie in der Ferne einen Wilderer. Der Vater lässt den Jungen durchs Zielfernrohr seines Jagdgewehrs auf den Eindringling blicken - doch statt nur zu beobachten, drückt er ab. Ist dem Jungen die Tragweite seiner Tat nicht bewusst? Hat er kein Mitgefühl? Was als Ausflug geplant war, wird zu einem archaischen Ringen, das die Männer an ihre Grenzen bringt.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the...

England, 1976. Mrs Creasy is missing, and The Avenue is alive with whispers. As the summer shimmers endlessly on, 10-year-olds Grace and Tilly decide to take matters into their own hands. And as the cul-de-sac starts giving up its secrets, the amateur detectives will find much more than they imagined.

Whatever happened to Dan Gelber - the divorced screenwriter who journeyed to Nepal in his seventies, only to plunge to his death off of Mt. Everest? And just who is Jay Reynolds, the mysterious 20-year-old tennis prodigy who appears out of nowhere to battle Rafael Nadal at the French Open and Roger Federer at Wimbledon and become the new hope of American tennis, possibly "the greatest of all time". Roger L. Simon answers these questions and more in The Goat, his first stand-alone novel in years.

Her story sheds light on a little-known segment of a 20th-century diaspora, a mass-exodus from Europe by some "huddled masses yearning to be free". This oppressed group fled the dire poverty of Sicily and southern Italy to endure a subsistence lifestyle bestowed by the owners of the coal mining industry and early American factories. She was surrounded by a clan of families.

Automne 1978, nord de la Californie. C'est l'ouverture de la chasse sur les deux cent cinquante hectares du ranch de Goat Mountain où un garçon de onze ans, son père, son grand-père et un ami de la famille se retrouvent comme chaque année pour chasser. À leur arrivée, les quatre hommes aperçoivent au loin un braconnier qu'ils observent à travers la lunette de leur fusil. Le père invite son fils à tenir l'arme et à venir regarder. Et l'irréparable se produit. De cet instant figé découle l'éternité : les instincts primitifs se mesurent aux conséquences à vie, les croyances universelles se heurtent aux résonances des tragédies.

A non-everyday story book framed by friendly emails.

As he did in the award-winning One Part Woman, in his newest novel, The Story of a Goat, Perumal Murugan explores a side of India that is rarely considered in the West: the rural lives of the country’s farming community. He paints a bucolic yet sometimes menacing portrait, showing movingly how danger and deception can threaten the lives of the weakest through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands.

Najeeb's dearest wish is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves his dream only to be propelled by a series of incidents, grim and absurd, into a slave-like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. Memories of the lush, verdant landscape of his village and of his loving family haunt Najeeb, whose only solace is the companionship of goats. In the end, the lonely young man contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison.

Los Angeles, 1958. Eisenhower is in the White House, Elvis is in the army, and eight-year-old Wade Parker is thrilled that Duke Snider and the Dodgers have moved west from Brooklyn. Yet all is not well in the Parker household. On the darkest day of his young life, Wade plunges into the midst of an unimaginable crisis. Worse yet, his younger brother witnessed what happened, and he can't keep a secret for a truckload of Abba-Zabbas.

When Emily Rose Howard took in four goats, she didn’t know she was getting more than she bargained for. However, life gets even more complicated when her neighbor’s son brings his army friend home for a visit after the Civil War ends, and her former art professor shows up too. But life in the Appalachian Mountains has never been easy, and Emily Rose is determined to face her problems with faith and determination the way she always has.

After tragedy shatters William's world of self-imposed isolation, he finds himself on the road with a younger woman whose life becomes intertwined with his. Forging an unlikely friendship, they must learn to navigate the dangers and chaos of their journey into Mexico, while confronting ghosts from the past.

Gilles, vingt-neuf ans, se retrouve amoché dans le Montréal d’après la pandémie : il a perdu son travail de guide touristique, sa copine et son logement. En désespoir de cause, il se réfugie chez son grand-père Henri, qui possède une ferme en Estrie. Très réticent au départ, le citadin prendra peu à peu goût à la vie à la campagne et à la tâche quotidienne que lui confie son grand-père : promener les chèvres. Cet été-là, une flopée de personnages venus d’un peu partout voudront faire route avec cet étrange promeneur de chèvres.

新居に引っ越してきたばかりの30代半ばの夫婦。荷解きの最中に妻が見たのはリビングに佇む女の幽霊だった。本当は見えているはずなのに見えていなと主張する夫。夫婦の関係に亀裂が走る一方で、妻は幽霊と奇妙な絆を築いていく。

ライブハウスの扉を開けると歓声と熱気、爆音が体を包む。音に支配され、自分が自分でなくなることに怯える「私」と恐ろしい表情をして人波に飛び込むヒロ。そんな二人を「個体」としてモニターから調査する男がいた。

2024年3月Ｘ日、春日陽太郎は50歳の誕生日に恋をした。これこそが本当の、初めての恋だった。まるで天使のような子だった。その天使の名はココ。二人が出会ったのは五反田のラブホテル。ココは、デリバリーヘルスに勤める風俗嬢だった──。

介護士の朝岡は週に２回、要介護２の一人暮らしの女性が住む四角い巨大な箱のような家に通っていた。内部は開放的ながら外見は要塞のようで、５ヶ月経っても自分がどこにいるかわからなくなることもあった──。

Moni the Goat-Boy written by Johanna Spyri (1827 - 1901): Moni is the goat boy who takes care of all the goats belonging to the people of Fideris, Switzerland. His favorite is a young kid named Mäggerli. One day Moni comes across a serious situation where he must keep a deceitful secret in order to protect Mäggerli from being killed. This delightful short story teaches children that to trust God and do right is always better than being deceitful.

中学の同窓会のために帰省した浩介は、最近仕事を始めたという母の言葉に驚く。父は「女は働きになんて出ないもの」という価値観の持ち主だったからだ。その夜、父とふたりになった浩介が母の仕事のことを尋ねると、父はある秘密を教えてくれた。

WEBライターの心音（ここね）は、ひょんなことから心臓の音を録音したCDと出会った。本に挟まれていたそのCDは、見知らぬ他人の命を刻んでいる。その音の所在を求め、心音は海の果ての小さな島に向かった。