Ergebnis für "La guerra" in Familienleben

Jonathan e Barbara Rose hanno all'apparenza un matrimonio perfetto: una villa di lusso piena di oggetti di antiquariato, due carriere invidiabili, figli deliziosi e una Ferrari fiammante in garage. Una vita da sogno, insomma, finché Jonathan non viene colpito da un improvviso malore e la facciata sfavillante del loro rapporto comincia a sgretolarsi. Dopo diciotto anni insieme, Barbara capisce di non amare più suo marito e decide di chiedere il divorzio. Jonathan non si oppone, ma nessuno dei due è disposto a lasciare la casa, simbolo del loro successo e, adesso, della loro rovina.

"All three narrators are Puerto Rican–born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." —The Washington Post “The narrators’ accents and code-shifting create a vibrant auditory experience. In particular, Guerra’s luscious voice conveys...

“Guerra's portrayals of the principal female characters bring the story alive. Her natural-sounding delivery captures the intimate voices and personal stories of a strong-willed grandmother, a mother who is willing to adapt to 'fly-over country,' and a daughter who is injured during a...

“One of the most dazzling and devastating novels I’ve read in a long time...Readers of Fruit of the Drunken Tree will surely be transformed.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice — she has...

“A classic story . . . delivers real news from Cuba in a lyrical way.”–NPR Available for a new generation, Wendy Guerra’s intoxicating and heartrending classic—a portrait of economically depressed post-revolutionary Cuba in the late 1970s, written as the diary of a young girl left...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL AWARD From the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz, an epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico. When Maricarmen meets Rey el...

Prosegue lo straordinario racconto epico del Mulino del Po. La seconda generazione degli Scacerni non è eroica e di animo nobile quanto la prima. Il figlio di Lazzaro, Peppino, detto Coniglio Mannaro perché codardo e imbroglione, si arricchisce partecipando alle azioni criminali del sovraintendente Alpi e di Pietro Vergoli e quanto più si arricchisce tanto più diventa avaro e meschino. Cecilia Rei, che Coniglio Mannaro sposa con l’inganno, lotta da sola per la salvezza dei figli e dei mulini.

On the run from her abusive husband, Kyra Smith hits the road. Destination unknown. With a neglected dog she rescued in tow, she lands in the peaceful California town of Gold Creek and is immediately befriended by an openhearted group of women called the Tattooed Ladies Club. They’re there for Kyra—and for each other.

I giorni della spensieratezza e dei giochi sono ormai passati. È il settembre del 1939 e l'ombra della guerra si allunga cupa sulla vita dei Cazalet. In questo clima di sospensione, tra tradimenti, segreti e nascite inaspettate, mentre la famiglia attende che tutto torni come un tempo, le tre ragazze fremono d'impazienza e di desideri. Louise sogna di diventare una grande attrice, Clary fa i suoi primi tentativi di scrittura, mentre la sensibile Polly è alle prese con le insicurezze e le domande dell'adolescenza.

Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother’s decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she’ll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It’s her home away from home, but it’s also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother, could use a second chance.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1968: A pesar de ciertas dudas, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón decide casarse con Peter Brennan Jr. en un arrebato de optimismo romántico. Sin embargo, no es consciente de hasta qué punto cambiará su vida cuando desarraigue a su joven familia de la isla para instalarse en el Midwest de los Estados Unidos, ni de cómo esta será la primera de muchas decepciones en su vida. En los años ochenta, viendo el aislamiento de su madre en Missouri, la hija de Rafaela, Ruth, decide abandonar la lengua, las costumbres y los recuerdos de su infancia en Puerto Rico.

Es el año 2017 y Olga y su hermano, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, tienen un renombre audaz en su ciudad natal de Nueva York. Prieto es un congresista popular que representa a su vecindario Latinx de Brooklyn que está en vías de ser gentrificado, mientras que Olga es la organizadora de bodas más destacada de los poderosos de Manhattan.

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families. Miguel Guerra, who grew up in poverty in Venezuela before his family's relocation to Chicago, could not be more different from his partner Chad Merry, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen - struggling with the deterioration of her marriage - offers the couple her eggs, they begin scrambling for a surrogate to carry the child, finally settling on Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE “I was crying like I lost my best friend as I finished. . . . This book is an act of love . . . It will break you apart and remind you that we can all be put back together again, stronger, and wiser than before.” — XOCHITL GONZALEZ...

Jazz will stop at nothing to save her brother. Their foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin’s life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is...

#1 nationally bestselling and award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers another moving, evocative, and timely novel about how a small seed of hope can change the course of one’s life. Savannah Graham thought she had the perfect marriage…until grief drove her husband into the...