Ergebnis für "Pictures from Italy" in Belletristik

Aber was, wenn das ganze Leben nicht zu passen scheint? Seit ihm als Arzt ein schicksalshafter Fehler unterlaufen ist, lebt Fredrik Welin allein auf einer Schäreninsel. Menschenscheu hat er sich völlig in die Stille zurückgezogen. Doch an einem Wintertag nähert sich seiner Insel eine dunkle Gestalt zu Fuß über das Eis, und in Welins Leben beginnt es zu tauen...

Based on the true history of the uncrowned kings of Sicily: the story of a family, restless and ambitious, shrewd and determined to be richer and more powerful than anybody else. In this grand, sweeping epic inspired by the real lives of history-making titans, international best-selling author...

Julia Volpe’s Italian dream has turned into a nightmare. Still living with her ex, Luca, a year after they’ve broken up, desperate to sell the dilapidated B&B that was meant to be their future, Jules knows she needs to leave. There are just two problems. Her passport has expired and she’s broke. Not quite ready to ask her parents for help – at the ripe old age of twenty-seven – Jules decides to head as far away from Luca as she can to work on an olive farm until she has enough money to pay for her passport and a ticket back home.

Marvellously atmospheric tale of strangers summoned to a grand but neglected villa on the Italian coast. Each of them has been named in a will, but nobody knows their benefactress.... Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer’s block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos.