Ergebnis für "Leo" in Familienleben

Wenn vier Menschen um einen Tisch sitzen, dann ist Maxim Leos Berliner Familie schon fast vollzählig versammelt. Die vielen anderen Leos, die in den 1930er-Jahren aus der Stadt flohen, waren immer fern, über den ganzen Erdball verstreut. Zu ihnen macht er sich auf, trifft zum ersten Mal Onkel und Tanten, findet Tagebücher, Briefe, Fotos und entdeckt seine verschwundene Familie. Maxim Leos Spurensuche richtet den Blick aber nicht nur in die Vergangenheit. Denn seine Cousins und Cousinen finden nach und nach zurück nach Deutschland, in die Heimat ihrer Vorfahren. Sie wollen in Berlin studieren, arbeiten, heiraten.

Eine aufwühlende georgische Familiengeschichte zwischen Vertreibung, Hoffnung und Versöhnung. Vom intensiven Leben in einer gefährlichen Welt. Georgien, 2010. Auf der Flucht vor dem Bürgerkrieg bleibt Sabas Mutter zurück. Erst Jahre später hat sein Vater genug Geld, um nach ihr zu suchen. Doch in Tbilissi verschwindet der Vater, und auch der ihm folgende ältere Bruder. Nun ist es an Saba in das ihm unbekannte Land aufzubrechen. Begleitet von den Stimmen seiner georgischen Familie folgt Saba den Hinweisen, die sein Bruder ihm hinterlassen hat. Graffiti, versteckte Notizen, ein Manuskript.

Im Zug unterhalten sich die Reisenden über die Liebe als Voraussetzung für eine gute Ehe. Zum Schluss äußert sich Posdnyschew - der Mörder seiner Frau... Die berühmte Novelle Tolstois ist ein Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur.

"Alle glücklichen Familien ähneln einander, jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre Weise unglücklich." Dieser Anfangssatz aus "Anna Karenina" ist eines der bekanntesten Zitate von Tolstoi und lässt schon erahnen, dass die Ehe zwischen Mann und Frau eines seiner Lebensthemen war. In "Familienglück", gelesen von Gustl Halenke, heiratet ein Gutsbesitzer die weitaus jüngere Mascha. Eine leidenschaftliche Liebe entwickelt sich. Doch als das Landleben Mascha zu langweilen beginnt, stürzt sie sich in die dekadente Welt des russischen Adels.

ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024 NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024 "The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times “Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.…...

Ivan Ilitch é um funcionário público do sistema judiciário russo. Casado com uma mulher exigente, buca ser um magistrado. O trabalho é o refúgio para evitar sua família. Depois de um acidente, ele acredita ter contraído uma doença, mas não há um diagnóstico satisfatório. O tempo passa e o ferimento agrava-se, ele então se vê restrito ao ambiente familiar. Ivan Ilitch quer morrer para dar fim à sua dor e à sua vida de mentiras. Inicia-se assim um processo de busca pelo sentido da vida, durante o qual Ivan percebe terem sido poucos os momentos da sua existência que tiveram significado.

“An insightful, riveting study of marriage.” —People From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and “absorbing” (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and...

In this radio play, we learn how the Leo and Leo Minor constellations came to be. Leo the Lion wants desperately to fulfill his deep-down desire to sing his cubs to sleep. Because he is filled with so much love, he finds it very difficult to accomplish. His wife, Leah, comes up with some interesting and funny ways to solve his problem.

A Liu Zhenyun le llevó tres años escribir esta novela, la más grande y madura de su acervo literario. La primera parte describe el pasado: Moisés Wu salió de Yanjin para encontrar a la única persona con quien "podía hablar", su hijastra. La segunda parte narra el presente: Niu Aiguo...

A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune on their son, Nicolas' marriage to a wealthy bride. Nicolas isn't cooperating, for he loves a poor girl named Sonia. Alas! How will they see it through?

I due ussari fu scritta nel 1856. Il titolo originale era "Padre e figlio" ma fu poi cambiato. Il racconto si svolge in fatti in due periodi diversi, a venti anni di distanza, in cui i due protagonisti sono padre e figlio, e con loro due generazioni a confronto; parallelamente a due personaggi femminili a confronto. Calvino osservava che i due Turbin (il più anziano probabilmente si ispirava ad un parente dell'autore) appartenevano rispettivamente alla generazione che aveva sconfitto Napoleone ai primi dell'Ottocento e a quella che nel 1848 aveva represso le rivoluzioni in Polonia e Ungheria.

Una magistrale novella che getta una nuova luce sulle convinzioni su amore e matrimonio, tale che ne fu per un certo tempo proibita la lettura. Il testo è completato da un’appedice in cui Tolstoj in persona risponde alle critiche che gli furono rivolte in proposito.
La lettura è completata dalla sonata di Beethoven da cui il titolo.

For fans of Behold the Dreamers, comes a compelling novel about a tightly bound Nigerian family living in Florida and the wounds that get passed down from generation to generation, from the author of the acclaimed Mr. and Mrs. Doctor. When 276 schoolgirls are abducted from their school in...

The book, "A Walk for Justice," Series one, captured the roller coaster life of a teenager, Chiagozie Chike, from Awgu in South Eastern Nigeria who, out of her desire and love to attain a university education, agreed to marry a man she barely knew. Her husband, Akachukwu Chike, after dutifully fulfilling the stringent requirements of marriage in this Igbo traditional society together with the requirements of marriage in the Catholic Church, turned her into an object of his insatiable sexual appetite.

La mudanza no consiste simplemente en dejar atrás una casa, consiste en ser despojado del derecho a habitar en sí mismo y quedar expuesto. Con una prosa exacta, de contenido lirismo, Pedro Badrán hace un recorrido por la decadencia de un mundo familiar y social, por una mudanza que no es...

Two friends embark on a car ride that puts them on the road to reconnection and holiday cheer. The only reason Topaz is flying back into her hometown for the second time in a decade is because her job is forcing her to use the rest of her PTO time before the year is over. And how convenient is it she's landing back during the week of the town's 75th anniversary of the Sunflower Falls Holiday Festival.