Ergebnis für "Paradiso" in Historische Romane

La vie d'une jeune fille italienne après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Graziella Ponti naît dans les années 1930 en Italie, au sein d'une famille aimante, dans un petit village de Lombardie, Pieve Santa Clara. Ses parents ne sont pas riches, mais la petite fille connaît une vie douce, jusqu'à ce qu'un accident de chantier rende son père invalide, et que la guerre frappe à la porte. Réformé, son père ne part pas au front, contrairement aux autres hommes du village, mais l'arrivée de soldats nazis entraîne les adultes à prendre en 1944 une décision difficile.

Italy, 1937. In a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti is born into a loving family. Though they are not rich and life is full of challenges, Graziella and her family are content and safe, surrounded by the tightly knit community of Pieve Santa Clara. But when the shadow of World War Two falls across the village with the arrival of Nazi soldiers, nothing in young Graziella’s life will ever be the same again.

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In this final chapter to The Mistress of Auschwitz, Eleonore struggles with the consequences of her actions at Mrs. Meyers' manor. While in a foreign land, Eleonore begins to hope for what she thought had been lost forever. She begins to find healing through a wonderfully chaotic but passionate family, learning to use her gifts again, and an unsought romance with a man that she once despised. But all is not as it seems.

Alexander the Great's sudden and unexpected death has left the largest, most formidable empire the world has ever seen leaderless. As the fight to take control descends into ruthless scheming and bloody battles, no one is safe. As wars on land and sea are lost and won, and promises are made only to be broken, long-buried secrets come to light in the quest for the true circumstances surrounding Alexander's death.

Italy, 1950. The dawn of a new decade brings with it the promise of lasting peace and prosperity as the hardships of war are consigned to the past. In Pieve Santa Clara, a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti, now a teenager, lives a simple life with her widowed mother and aunt. But Italy is transforming around Graziella at great speed and, as her childhood gives way to the start of her womanhood, she must learn to navigate this ever-changing new world.

The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope All his life, exile has been the shadow stitched to the sole of Sufien’s shoe. Born in Palestine on the precipice of...

Questo romanzo franco-indiano fa parte di una serie di romanzi storici scritti da Judith Gautier. Questa visse in un ambiente coltissimo ed ha conosciuto direttamente le lingue e i costumi orientali. Non sorprende quindi che si sia dedicata ad un genere di letteratura esotica nella quale è rimasta insuperabile. L'autrice ha creato un'arte tutta personale e riesce a suscitare nel lettore una viva attesa per lo svolgersi della storia, non diminuita dalle descrizioni storiche e naturalistiche.

Cronaca dell'innamoramento, esplorazione del discorso amoroso, anatomia del sentimento al tempo della crisi, il nuovo romanzo di Giorgio Fontana disegna la geografia emotiva di un personaggio che trova se stesso per poi disorientarsi, smarrendosi in un movimento interminabile. Il suo, dettato dal desiderio e dal senso della fine, sarà un itinerario incessante in una città in cui sparire e nascondersi, e che di continuo si rivela, sorprende e inganna. Così come inganna quella passione, quella speranza, che per un momento ha illuminato, violenta e paradisiaca, la mente e il cuore.

La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori:Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda...