Ergebnis für "Pigs" in Historische Romane

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Five Little Pigs, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs” who could have done it: Philip...

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The Pig Farmer’s Wife drops the listener into the Second Wave of Feminism—a time when women were prohibited from managing their own finances, acquiring a bank loan, or owning a credit card in her own name. It was a brave woman who dared to express opinions that differed from her husbands, and unheard of for a woman to begin a business of any type, let alone an all-female owned and operated one. Coincidentally, it was also when the birth control pill was introduced to the nation, and that changed everything, because for the first time in history, women had the ability to plan her family size.

The Korticos are from a well-endowed pygmy tribe in West Africa; the Mandingas are descended from a tribe of tall Ghanaians. Both families have been brought to Cuba as slaves. Oscar Kortico and Jose Mandinga, inseparable friends, marry a pair of sisters, and in the tiny hamlet of Pig's Foot (Pata de Puerco), five generations of these families will live out their colorful lives through the tumultuous sweep of Cuban history.

Delft, 1664. Griet bliver ansat som tjenestepige hos maleren Johannes Vermeer. Hun skal gøre rent i hans atelier. Desuden skal hun assistere Vermeers kone, Catharina, der er gravid en stor del af tiden. Det var ikke altid let at være tjenestepige i 1660ernes Holland. Som ny i huset er Griet nederst i hakkeordenen. Og hendes liv bliver ikke lettere, da Vermeer begynder at bruge hende som model. Især ikke, da han forlanger, at hun skal bære hans kones perleørering. En fascinerende fortælling bygget op omkring tilblivelsen af det kendte maleri Pige med perleørering, også kaldet Pige med turban.

Paris, en vinternat i 1983. Pigen er seksten år og faret vild i de ukendte gader. På en seddel har hun adressen på A, en tredive år ældre fotograf. Næsten fire årtier senere, mens både hendes eget liv og verden udenfor krakelerer, prøver den voksne kvinde at forstå den unge pige, hun engang var. Erindringsromanen Pige, 1983 udspiller sig i Oslo, New York og Paris og er en genreoverskridende og besættende rejse gennem lag af minder og glemsel. Den norske forfatter Linn Ullmann udforsker på ny hukommelsens digteriske kraft i forsøget på at fortælle om det allermest hemmelige.

Russia, 1907. Vladimir Durov has a prized pig he has trained for the circus. Dorov loves to make people laugh at his pig’s crazy antics. But he finds that when his pig performs for the recently widowed circus owner, Natasha, the most he can get is a smile. Desperate to capture her heart, the rough-hewn trainer comes up with a dangerous scheme to impress the woman he has come to love. As the circus travels to Germany in pursuit of more paying customers, Durov decides to dress his prized pig as the war-mongering Kaiser himself.

The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the 17th century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues - outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa animates this world of bloody chaos and uncertain possibility through the eyes of the young Jean Smeeks, kidnapped in Flanders at age 13 and sold into indentured servitude on Tortuga, the mythical Treasure Island.