Ergebnis für "Libra" in Belletristik

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.

Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an apologetically provocative picture of America.

Sur son lit de mort, le roi Sanche de Tolosà demande à Briann de veiller à ce que Raymon, son fils cadet, mais surtout Ysabel, la veuve d’Henri, son fils aîné récemment assassiné, puissent lui succéder sans heurts. En réalité, s’il craint que Manuel Gutiérrez, duc de la puissante Barcelona, conteste cette passation de pouvoir, ce sont avant tout les mystérieux estrahñats, indétectables et invulnérables à la magie, qui l’inquiètent, car il sent les royaumes christiens du Nord prêts à lancer leur nouvelle Croisade contre la Géminie tout entière.