Ergebnis für "In Memory of Memory" in Familienleben

Unser Leben, unsere Welt werden durch unsere Erinnerungen zusammengehalten. Was geschieht mit uns, wenn wir sie verlieren, und welche Möglichkeiten tun sich auf, wenn andere unsere Erinnerungen wiederbeleben können? Der 74-jährigen Alma Konachek, die in einem Vorort von Kapstadt lebt, widerfährt genau dies. Sie verliert ihr Gedächtnis... Wie alle Werke Doerrs zeugt auch dieses von der Größe des Lebens - von der geheimnisvollen Schönheit der Fossilien, Wolken, Blätter - von dem atemberaubenden Glück, in diesem Universum zu leben.

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and war, from the million-copy-selling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes. If you adored The Nightingale, The Tuscan Contessa or My Name is Eva, this is the book for you. Some love stories can't be...

At the age of 12, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti - to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

What does it mean to remember? Joined at birth, then pulled apart, Selina and Zora’s relationship is marked by a pattern of closeness and separation. Growing up in 50s’ and 60s’ London under the shadow of Enoch Powell, they are instinctively dependent on each other, and yet Zora yearns for...

For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-two years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears, she becomes one more missing Native woman in Indian Country's long devastating history of loss. But she is also a daughter of the Mozhay Point Reservation in northern Minnesota, and the mother of Azure and Rain, ages three and four, and her absence haunts all the lives she has touched—and all the stories they tell in this novel.

In 1929, Katya is 16 years old, surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s activists arrive in her village, it’s just a few, a little pressure to join the collective. But soon neighbors disappear, those who speak out are never seen again and every new day is uncertain. Resistance has a price, and as desperate hunger grips the countryside, survival seems more a dream than a possibility. But, even in the darkest times, love beckons. Seventy years later, a young widow discovers her grandmother’s journal.

The Midnight Library meets Romantic Comedy in this emotional, heartwarming debut novel where an engaged couple stumble upon a magical movie theater that plays formative memories from their lives, showing secrets they both have been keeping from each other. At the end of a cobblestone alley...