Ergebnis für "Le Syndrome E" in Familienleben

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar) In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in...

Arla Deane sometimes likens her marriage to undergoing daily psychological warfare. Husband Ric will never voice an opinion, and puts his mother Edna up high on a pedestal. Arla is sick of always feeling that she comes in at only second best to her mother-in-law, who much to Arla's fury is never told anything by Ric or his sisters that she would not want to hear.

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s...

La fraternité à toute épreuve. Vous avez cinq ans, deux sœurs et vous rêvez d'un petit frère avec qui jouer à des jeux de garçon. Un soir, vos parents vous annoncent que vous allez avoir un frère et qu'il sera un peu spécial. Vous êtes aux anges. Vous lui choisissez même un nom : John. Puis il naît, et petit à petit, on comprend que oui, il est différent des autres. Vous finissez par découvrir le mot Down, et votre enthousiasme se transforme en rejet, voire en honte. Il faudra attendre l'adolescence pour vous laisser envahir par la joie de vivre de Giovanni.

A “sweeping and beautifully written” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass. In the backwoods of Mississippi, a land of honeysuckle and grapevine, Jewel and her husband...