Ergebnis für "Norma" in Belletristik

Der neue Weltbestseller der Autorin von "Die Eleganz des Igels". Rose hat mit ihren vierzig Jahren das Gefühl, noch gar nicht richtig gelebt zu haben. Als Botanikerin kennt sie Blumen, aber sie betrachtet sie nicht; nichts dringt zu ihr durch, nichts kann sie berühren. Dann reißt ein unerwarteter Anruf sie aus ihrem Alltag: Sie soll für die Testamentseröffnung ihres Vaters nach Kyoto fliegen. Als sie widerwillig zustimmt, ahnt sie nicht, wie sehr das fremde Land mit seinen Tempeln und Zen-Gärten sie aufwühlen wird.

Paris, 2022: Die einzige Leidenschaft des Literaturprofessors François gilt dem dekadenten Schriftsteller Huysmans. Tiefergehende Beziehungen interessieren ihn ebenso wenig wie die gegenwärtige Politik. Sein ruhiges Leben gerät aus den Fugen, als in Frankreich gewählt wird. Um einen Sieg des Front National abzuwenden, unterstützen die bürgerlichen Parteien den liberalen Moslem Mohammed Ben Abbes, der nun Frankreichs neuer Präsident wird. Das Land durchlebt einen Wandel und auch François muss neue Wege gehen.

Was passierte wirklich in der Nacht auf den 5. August 1962 im Haus von Norma Jeane Mortenson, die unter ihrem Künstlernamen Marilyn Monroe zu einer der bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts wurde? Viele Indizien deuten auf Mord, findet der Berliner Hacker Georg Brand - alias T-Rex - bei seinen Nachforschungen heraus. Doch waren es wirklich die Kennedys, die hier eine kompromittierende Zeugin beseitigen wollten? Oder war es jemand ganz anders, der den Kennedys den Tod des Filmstars zu seinem eigenen Nutzen in die Schuhe schieben wollte?

Ogni sera, Martina apre il suo quaderno a quadretti e decide se colorare una casella in base a com’è andata la giornata. Se la lascia bianca è stata una buona giornata, se è nera il suo opposto. Nessuna via di mezzo. Lei è fatta così. Per ora il bilancio è piuttosto negativo: ha trentaquattro anni e un lavoro che non la gratifica, non riesce ad avere un bambino e il suo compagno non vuole né sposarsi né acquistare una casa. Martina sa che le case non sono solo muri, ma fotografie di varie fasi della vita.

Thirty-five-year-old Jenny and her 62-year-old mother Norma have always seen the world differently. Estranged for years, everything changes when Jenny learns of Norma’s dire state and rushes to New York City to make a startling discovery: her mother is sick and homeless. Living in a women’s shelter slated to be shut down by developer Albert “Doc” Brenner, Norma is leading the charge in stopping him. When Jenny learns that Norma is dying of cancer, she gives her mother something that she’s always wanted. Will it be enough? Can mother and daughter put their differences aside before time runs out?

Tras irrumpir en el panorama literario internacional con Purga, que vendió más de un millón de ejemplares en más de cuarenta países y recibió el aplauso unánime de los lectores y la crítica, además de numerosos premios y honores, Sofi Oksanen, una de las principales voces de la narrativa finlandesa actual, vuelve a sorprendernos con Norma, una novela intensa y asombrosa que combina con gran eficacia la intriga, el realismo mágico y la crítica social.

1992. Elisavet, a Serbian refugee haunted by loss, finds work on Island Farm Avenue. There, three older women – Cora, Megan, and Gladdie – meet regularly on the old footbridge, a quiet place where stories are shared and wounds are gently laid bare. As they begin to open up about their memories, Elisavet is drawn into their past and the healing power of female friendship. 1944 During the war, a young Cora forms a forbidden bond with Frank, a German prisoner held at Island Farm Camp. A fleeting smile.

Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful short stories centered on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, from young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of alienation, displacement, and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada. They must rely on their wits, artistic talent, humor, and spirituality­ for survival, and find solace in shining moments of reconnection.

Latina Harmen knew she was going to hate Missouri. "There's nothing in Missouri!" she had told her father when he announced they were to spend the summer there. And now she knew she had been 110 percent right. Latina had taken for granted that she would be spending another happy summer vacation with her friends at Periwinkle Cove on the East Coast. After all, her family had spent summers there as long as she could remember.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “A bold and memorable achievement.”—The Booker Prize 2025 judges Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, hailed as “a nesting doll of satire that leaves readers...

Summer, 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street, the bunting is being brought out, and Britain is getting ready to crown its new Queen. Except Helen Jones doesn't feel much like celebrating. Her father passed away last year, on the very same day as King George. Life hasn't felt the same ever since. Her husband Tad has a plan. As the newly-appointed chair of the small town's Coronation Tea Party committee, he's hoping that the day will be the perfect moment to bring a spark of joy back to their little family - and to the whole community.

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

I can never remember the details after I wake up, but I've had the same nightmare too many times throughout the years, more than I can count. Recently I asked my brothers and sisters if they ever dream about the old house. Some tell me they do--of a room that wasn't there. That settles it. I'm turning this story over to my twelve-year-old incorrigible self. Only a scrawny kid skidding awkwardly toward puberty can explain how it feels to be haunted by the sins of his father, hunted by the town bullies, and taunted by a cantankerous ghost.

Thea has never met her grandmother Hedi, so she’s surprised when she receives a call from social services to take the frail old woman home. She’s not sure how Hedi will fit into her new life–the one where she’s left her boyfriend and moved into a run-down cottage miles from the nearest town. And Hedi refuses to talk about her past or why she and Thea’s mother haven’t spoken for more than 30 years. So when Thea spots Hedi’s old suitcase on the table, she can’t resist taking a peak inside.

When six gifted children vanish around the globe, an investigation reveals genetic experimentation, dubious funding and the disappearance of a research assistant. Searching for proof of the Exodus, biblical archaeologist Lynne Raven meets enigmatic billionaire heir Connor Mackenzie. As the two grow closer, a disturbing link to the abductions and a past rife with secrets, visions, and voices changes their lives. In pursuit of the truth, can the two unravel the mystery of a prophecy...or be left chasing the wind?

Have you ever wondered what happens to a person’s soul as they lie trapped in a coma? One day, while visiting her mother, a young woman falls unexpectedly into a comatose state. In this deep slumber, the young woman is visited by her guardian angel, who takes her by the hand and whisks her away on an incredible journey through the past and the future. Through life’s blessings and disappointments, she begins to see the hand of God working to make his perfect plan, even when her own plans fell into shambles.

El texto es la narración vivencial de la autora en el día a día desde que su marido desapareció después del golpe de Estado de 1973, hasta 17 años después -en junio de 1990- cuando identificó su cuerpo rescatado desde una fosa clandestina en Pisagua, Iquique. La obra cuenta con un...

Howard Fast has placed the entire action of this highly charged novel in the space of one day at the substantial home of a prominent United States senator. This dinner party sounds like a well-ordered and gracious affair, but as events unfold, there are things to be settled - some are political and ethical, some are emotional, and some are questions of life and death. This is a profound and important novel with the dramatic intensity of first-class theater.

It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a country doctor like her father. But when her father tells her she must get married instead, Vita explores every means of escape - and finds one in the person of war veteran Jacob Culhane. Damaged by what he's seen in battle and with all his family gone, Jacob is seeking investors for a fledgling business. Then he meets Vita - and together they hatch a plan that should satisfy both their desires.

A family secret. A new romance. And a summer she will never forget. When Caroline left Lake Summers thirty years ago, she thought she’d never return to the place where she lost her parents. But when she finds out that the town’s lily garden lovingly built by her mother is going to be destroyed, she knows fate is calling. Dropping everything at her office in Chicago, she knows she is the only person who can save the garden. Caroline and her daughter Lee are welcomed home by the warm smile of her mother’s best friend Maxine, and piles of pancakes at her cozy little restaurant in town.