Ergebnis für "Maria" in Magischer Realismus

Klug, katastrophal und witzig – wie das Leben: Matt Haigs inspirierender Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein Andrew Martin, Mathematikprofessor aus Cambridge, kann sich nur wundern: Über sich selbst, denn er läuft nackt über eine Autobahn, empfindet beim Gedanken an Essen Übelkeit und mag weder seine liebevolle Frau Isobel noch ihren gemeinsamen Sohn Gulliver. Vor allem aber über den Rest der Menschheit mit ihrem Ehrgeiz, ihrem Egoismus und ihren zerstörerischen Leidenschaften. Andrew ist nicht er selbst, und er hat eine Mission.

Am glücklichsten war Wilbur mit Maggie, der großen Liebe seines Lebens. Damals, in ihren Flitterwochen in Venedig. Bevor er alles aufs Spiel setzte. Nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher, als die Zeit zurückzudrehen und einen anderen Weg einzuschlagen. Aber damit könnte er alles zerstören, was ihm je etwas bedeutet hat.

Rebecca glaubte, ihr Leben zu kennen. Gefangen im täglichen Spagat zwischen den Bedürfnissen ihrer Familie und ihren eigenen unerfüllten Sehnsüchten ahnt Rebecca nicht, dass ein geheimnisvoller Traum und ein spontaner Urlaub in den Highlands Schottlands alles verändern werden. Inmitten einer neu entdeckten Welt, umgeben von uralter Magie, unbändiger Kräfte und rätselhafter Wesen wird Rebecca auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences. In eloquent, contemporary prose, Costa and Patterson breathe new life into the dynamic character of Brás Cubas and reveal the vivid, tempestuous Rio de Janeiro of his time. The recently deceased Cubas narrates his life story, admitting glibly: “I am not so much a writer who has died, as a dead man who has decided to write.”

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide—which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco’s Cannery Row—each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories...

NAMED A ""FALL 2020 MUST-READ"" AND ONE OF THE ""BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020"" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, WIRED, COSMOPOLITAN AND MORE Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of...

A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally...

Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dramáticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de América latina, al tiempo que un canto de amor y de esperanza.

Kann man in der Hochzeitsnacht einschlafen, bevor man die Hochzeit vollzogen hat? Man kann, wenn man unter Narkolepsie leidet. Leonhard erfährt viele weitere unglaubliche Schlafattacken, aber das Unglaublichste ist: Er wechselt beim Einschlafen in eine andere Welt. Und auch dort will er heiraten! Kann das gutgehen?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night. In the town of Never-Again, Pennsylvania, this hand-game song contains a history - centuries of inexplicable tiger sightings. It also reveals a frightening prophecy, one that only a small circle of players envisions. After Never-Again becomes the scene of unimaginable violence, a researcher uncovers the truth about the game, right down to its final chilling verse.

Montana's most feared outlaw has left his secret lover, Maria, alone in their secluded house deep in the wilds. If he had known that she was pregnant at the time, the Devil might have stayed.

Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, "Maria, Maria"—a family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias.

Con el mordisco a una guayaba nació el pecado original de esta singular familia latinoamericana. Un pecado en forma de hombre que haría enloquecer a cuatro generaciones de mujeres cultas e inteligentes. Al ver a Alfonso nacer, la bisabuela vaticinó el destino trágico de las mujeres en su familia. Cuatro generaciones después, Primitiva Serapio, una niña tímida, aburrida y temerosa, cede ante la locura y da rienda suelta a Mulatona Montiel, su alter ego, una mujer libre, voluptuosa, irreverente y fuerte. Ambas cohabitan el mismo cuerpo, pero no tardará una en sobreponerse a la otra.

El circo y La Mariposa es una novela colectiva escrita por 13 autores de Rosario, en pandemia, “encerrados con un solo juguete”, como diría Juan Marsé. Al producirse el 20 de marzo de 2020 el primer confinamiento nacional dispuesto por el gobierno con motivo de la pandemia Covid-19, quedaron varados en el territorio argentino, cuarenta (40) circos, situación que no se ha modificado mucho en el momento que escribo estas líneas, un año y medio después.

Hers was the plight of a gothic heroine, banished from her home by a cruel brother and his heartless wife, the Dragon Sage. Misunderstood and maligned, Georgiana’s only hope of rescue were letters to aunts describing the medieval dungeon to which she had been sent.

Step into a world beyond imagination, where quantum-enhanced plants sing, cities resonate like symphonies, and the cosmos itself composes melodies. In The Sound Beyond Tomorrow, visionary author Birgit Maria Kemphues takes you on an unforgettable journey through the future of music in the Emirates—a world where sound is not just heard but felt, seen, and experienced in ways never before possible.

Lola is back in Galveston after twenty years drinking and clubbing in Spain. She’s inherited an old house she’s afraid of and a family secret that might be either her undoing or her salvation. Lola has nothing to show for herself after two decades abroad except for a serious drinking problem and a penchant for picking up strangers. She’s missed her beloved aunt’s funeral and lacks the capacity to digest some of the mysteries of her upbringing – from the demons that plagued her beautiful yet volatile mother, to the ways in which her aunt loved her but kept her at arm’s length.

Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn’t approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.

En esta reconfortante novela feel-good japonesa con una encantadora ambientación navideña, la magia y el destino intervienen, junto a deliciosos postres y gatos muy sabios, para que las personas que más lo necesitan encuentren su camino.

Es esta novela el relato de un tiempo mítico que reúne en sí el pasado y el presente, marcado por las invasiones y los olvidos, origen y testigo de las vidas de quienes lo poblaron desde su principio. El caldero de oro será el símbolo de las estirpes que vivieron junto al río milenario, leyenda fundacional, símbolo insoslayable de la infancia de un protagonista que, un día, regresará al pueblo de sus antepasados, abandonado y solitario, para encontrase con un destino encerrado en su propia historia.