Ergebnis für "Silence" in Literatur & Belletristik

"Silence" (dt. Schweigen) ist der wichtigste Roman des gefeierten japanischen Autors Shusaku Endo. Er verursachte nach seiner Veröffentlichung im Jahr 1966 eine große Kontroverse in Japan. Shusaku Endo, ein japanischer Katholik, erzählt die Geschichte zweier portugiesischer Missionare, die im siebzehnten Jahrhundert in Japan versuchen, die dortige unterdrückte christliche Bewegung zu unterstützen.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator who's trying to save her own hide. The only man that can help is locked in an asylum. But he's willing to put a brave face on, if it will help him escape.

Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels". Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.

Felix had risked everything to stop the threat of the Unending Maw. Except instead of death, he and his Companion Pit were transported to the deadly Void, a place far worse than the Foglands. The Maw is there with them, bonded somehow to Felix in a way none of them understand, but all of them hate. The three must navigate the desolate expanse of the dark Void, contending with voidbeasts, marauders, and the creeping influence of the Maw itself. It will take everything that Felix has—and more—merely to survive, let alone escape. All choices have consequences.

2095. Dans un monde anesthésié par les épidémies, les femmes, devenues rares et donc précieuses, gouvernent désormais l'ensemble des cités survivantes. Le système a été entièrement réinventé : qu'il s'agisse de votre catégorie sociale, de votre mariage, ou même de votre prénom, tout est imposé.

Féval a tramé cette fois de nous révéler comment sont nées les terribles sociétés secrètes dont l'Italie du Sud s'est tôt fait une noire spécialité, et qui donneront plus tard naissance à la Mafia et à la Camorra napolitaine. Nous sommes au tout début du XIXe siècle et le comte Mario de Monteleone, cousin du roi de Naples, Ferdinand (chassé de son trône par Murat ), mène en secret le combat contre les Français. En secret : tout est là. Les conjurés n'ont pas d'armes, mais ils possèdent le sentiment de leur bon droit.

Millions of listeners worldwide have treasured the visionary brilliance of Carlos Castaneda, who first explore the world of the Yaqui Indian sorcerer in The Teachings of Don Juan. Now, at last, Don Juan returns in The Power of Silence - wise, infuriating, capable or working miracles and playing practical jokes, but always seeking the wisdom of the warrior. The Power of Silence is Castaneda's most astonishing book to date - a brilliant flash of knowledge that illuminates the far reaches of the human mind. 

This is the beginning of the Overaughs end. The Overaugh family survived the night that should have destroyed them, but survival has a price. Jonah carries the weight of what he has done and what he still cannot explain. Seth and Natalia keep the world at arm's length, convinced that silence is the only thing holding their family together. Isabella watches the cracks widen, knowing the truth is not gone, only buried and burned.

From bestselling author S. T. Ashman comes a thriller about a mother who refuses to let her daughter take the fall for a crime that doesn't make sense… even if the truth is worse than prison. She survived the night. The truth didn't. Nicole gets the call at 4 a.m. Her daughter Lacey was found in the woods beside her friend's dead husband. He was stabbed forty-four times. Lacey is barely alive. Covered in his blood. And completely mute. She hasn't said a word since. Not to the police. Not to her husband. Not even to Nicole.

The Cadian Gate is broken, and the Imperium is riven in two. The might of the Traitor Legions, kept shackled for millennia behind walls of iron and sorcery, has been unleashed on a darkening galaxy. Among those seeking vengeance on the Corpse Emperor’s faltering realm are the Death Guard, once proud crusaders of the Legiones Astartes, now debased creatures of terror and contagion.

He's a deaf soldier. She's a princess whose voice could destroy kingdoms. What good is a soldier who can't hear orders? War left its mark on Finn Akkand... and his hearing. Now thrust into an unanticipated role of bodyguard, Finn thinks all he'll need to do is keep the five princesses out of trouble. But his new job proves to be far from easy when he is assigned to find a mysterious creature rumored to be causing havoc on Lachnen’s shores. Nvani Lachnen is a princess by day and a guardian by night.

To the world, Dominique Fournier is the picture-perfect wife: married to a powerful man, draped in wealth, and living a life most would envy. But behind closed doors, her world is anything but golden. Trapped in a loveless, suffocating marriage, each day is a carefully concealed...

Quelle raison pousse un jeune enquêteur brillant mais irrévérencieux à seconder un inspecteur médiocre dont on cherche désespérément à se débarrasser? Et par quel calcul machiavélique a-t-on voulu les réunir? Ce duo parfaitement incongru se retrouve pourtant au milieu d’une affaire dont personne n’avait soupçonné l’importance.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker, read by Kristin Atherton and Michael Fox. A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Costa Novel Award and the...

"The audiobook read by Lauren Ezzo makes for compulsive, edge-of-seat listening." - Buzzfeed "Ezzo's dark tone and emotional connection terrify and comfort listeners in equal measure. Not for the faint of heart."-AudioFile Magazine Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF...

Tatum & Dash: Sie braucht die Stille, um Frieden zu finden. Er braucht den Lärm, um mit seinen Gedanken nicht alleine zu sein. Doch können leise und laut gemeinsam bestehen? Tatum Sullivan fühlt sich nur sicher, wenn es still ist. Seit einem verhängnisvollen Tag in New York hat sie mit Lärm und den dadurch hervorgerufenen Panikattacken schwer zu kämpfen. Um der lauten Großstadt zu entfliehen, zog sie vor einigen Jahren mit ihrer Familie ins beschauliche Golden Oaks, Connecticut. Doch nicht einmal dort, umgeben von Seen und endlosen Wäldern, kommt Tatum zur Ruhe. Dash Adams liebt es laut.

Single motherhood to two teenage boys turns out to be far more challenging for Tessa Androtti than her brand-new job as a detective for the Edwards County Sheriff's Department. Especially when the younger of her sons is keeping her up at night, not only was the move from the big city supposed to...

In the city of Elyrion, fear is not merely a weapon. It is the law of existence. For ten thousand years the people of the Hollow Earth have lived beneath the rule of invisible powers known only as the Distorters. Under a sky choked by silver mist, they are born into toil, watched by the Faceless Guards, and taught from childhood that obedience is safety, suffering is natural, and hope is a form of madness. Even memory itself has been trained to kneel. Illan is no warrior, no prince, no chosen hero from prophecy.

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a...