Ergebnis für "Norma" in Frauenliteratur

From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death. When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming...

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?

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.

Norma ist scheinbar eine ganz normale Frau. Sie ist Mitte dreißig, vernarrt in ihre beiden Katzen und von dem Wunsch beseelt, endlich den richtigen Mann zu finden und eine Familie zu gründen. Was Norma nicht ahnt: Ihr ist es bestimmt, einem außerordentlichen Kind das Leben zu schenken – dem Silbernen Menschenkind, von dessen Schicksal die Zukunft aller Erdenwesen abhängt. Seit ihrer Geburt steht sie daher unter dem besonderen Schutz der Lumani, der Wächter des Lichts.

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.

Entre mujeres es una novela cariñosa, de resonancias múltiples para todo lector, especialmente para toda mujer. La trama, estructurada a la manera de las cajas chinas, gira en torno a dos temas fundamentales: la relación entre madre e hija y entre ellas y sus parejas respectivas. Y más: Celos, definiciones, la independencia de la mujer, la búsqueda de identidad...