Ergebnis für "Kinder" in Autoren

'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY 'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL 'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a...

»Ulrike Draesner ist eine der bedeutendsten deutschen Schriftstellerinnen der Gegenwart.« Times Literary Supplement »Ich hatte mir immer eine Familie gewünscht. Irgendwann dachte ich, dieser Wunsch erfüllt sich nicht mehr. Da kam ein Anruf, und ich wusste, es wird einen neuen Menschen in...

Esto no es una película. No hay banda sonora, ni corte de edición, ni final feliz garantizado. Esto es lo que queda después de que se apagan las luces y el público se va a su casa. Esta es la historia que nunca se filmó.

Hansjörg Schneider erzählt vom Aargau, der Landschaft, die ihn geprägt hat. Von den sanften Hügeln und Auen und der kargen, autoritären Atmosphäre seiner Kindheit und Jugend in den Nachkriegsjahren. Von der Studentenzeit in Basel bis hin zum Aufbruch in ein Leben für die Literatur. Woher kommt ein Schriftsteller? Authentisch, berührend und kein bisschen milde zeichnet Hansjörg Schneider nach, wie er wurde, wer er ist.

Willy Blum war sechzehn Jahre alt, als er in Auschwitz-Birkenau ermordet wurde. Von ihm blieb nur ein Name auf einer Liste, neben dem durchgestrichenen Namen Jerzy Zweigs, der durch Bruno Apitz' Roman "Nackt unter Wölfen" weltberühmt wurde. Über Willy Blum und seine Familie wusste man bislang nichts. Annette Leo hat sich auf die Suche gemacht und erzählt die Geschichte der Familie Blum und zugleich auch die Geschichte des Verschweigens einer Opfergruppe in der Nachkriegszeit: die der Sinti und Roma.

DON’T MISS THE PIGEON TUNNEL DOCUMENTARY—IN SELECT THEATERS AND STREAMING ON AppleTV+ OCTOBER 20TH! “Recounted with the storytelling élan of a master raconteur—by turns dramatic and funny, charming, tart and melancholy.” –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The New York Times...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and...

Meet Michael Shea Miller between the ages of eight to eighteen. Every day presented different challenges he had to overcome. From breaking his two front teeth rollerblading to his friend's house, to getting hit by a construction sign while body surfing in San Diego. He had to learn how to turn the frown upside down and smile that frown away. This is why he has decided to make a series of chapter books illustrating his "many mishaps" one decade at a time.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson. What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to...

John le Carré was a bestselling author whose books include The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. On this recording we hear - in his own words - about being brought up by his grandparents and feeling deserted by his mother and father. He talks about being creative...

The Education of Henry Adams is among the oddest and most enlightening books in American literature. Henry Adams was the grandson of a president and the great-grandson of another one. He was also the son of the American Ambassador to England, and his secretery. As such he rubbed elbows, literally, with Presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt and with many of the great figures of his time.

February 29th is a date that comes into existence just once every four years. It is also the birthday of Thais - author Anne-Dauphine Julliand's darling daughter - who died of a genetic disease. Thais lived just shy of her fourth birthday. She had a short life but good one. As this special day is about to reappear on her calendar for the first time since her daughter passed away, Anne-Dauphine struggles with how to mark this momentous occasion. She wants to live fully on this special day: Thais would have been eight years old.

Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today's greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the 20th century (1909-2001). Her life reflects a century of change and is closely entwined with many events that mark our recent history. This biography follows this 20th-century path while telling Welty's story, beginning with her parents and their important influence on her reading and writing life.

The beloved author, who has received more than 90 literary awards, makes a rare appearance to discuss her series for young readers ages 6 and up with the Children's Librarian at the Bank Street School for Children, Lisa Von Drasek. The event will feature a discussion with the audience.

André Gide met Wilde many times and was one of the small number of celebrities who maintained contact with him until his death in Paris in 1900.