Ergebnis für "The Cinema" in Belletristik

Ein herausragendes amerikanisches Debüt, das auf herzergreifende Weise von Liebe, Verlust und Migration erzählt. Zwei Männer, die einander lieben, und ihre Ehefrauen stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser Geschichte, die vom post-sozialistischen China bis ins heutige New York führt. Ihre Leben, die...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars) “Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your...

Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Winner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK A BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, DAILY MAIL, FINANCIAL...

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier...

For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented The Workers' Cinema: a theatre where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second and his fellow countrymen found intimacy in the privacy of the Workers' Cinema's screening rooms. Elsewhere, in the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men - guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist.

"C'est à ce moment-là, je crois, que je décidai de partir pour un voyage dont j'ignorais la destination et la durée. J'étais désargenté, désenchanté. Mais je voulais me replonger dans le courant de la vie, me battre pour ou contre quelque chose, retrouver l'envie du bonheur et le goût de la peur, lutter contre la force des vents, éprouver la chaleur, le froid, casser des cailloux et, s'il le fallait, creuser les flancs de la terre."

A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world. The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece 'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed...

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold. A disturbingly entertaining novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club. "A wry, devilish...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling and “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) author of Room, a sweeping historical “nail-biter” (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was...

‘A witty, warm-hearted romp through the lives and loves of three friends’ Debbie...

From the author of The Second Chance Cinema comes an uplifting novel about an anxious woman who lives in the charming small town of Destiny Springs, where everyone is born knowing their best day in advance. Every person born in the quaint town of Destiny Springs receives a remarkable gift: a...

The stunning spy thriller that blows the world of James Bond wide open! *A Finalist for the McIlvanney Prize: Scottish Crime Book of the Year* Six days. A bomb goes off at the BBC. But this is just the beginning. In six days' time, terrorists will strike again. Three agents. With James Bond...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2025 A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025 A Guardian Book of the Year 2025 An Observer Book of the year 2025 'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' New York Times...

Giovanni Diotallevi ha sedici anni quando suo padre gli comunica la grande notizia. Ha ottenuto per lui un colloquio con un gerarca, una persona importante. Se saprà fargli una buona impressione, per Giovanni si apriranno le porte del meraviglioso luogo che il Duce ha voluto costruire in fondo alla Tuscolana, una piccola metropoli destinata a creare pellicole che incanteranno il mondo intero.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR from NPR Set in Jaffa in between 1947 and 1951, this “fable-like historical novel of young love ... darkly humorous and touching” (Oprah Daily) is based on a true story during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. Based on...

'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long, The Times Richly imagined and...

‘Charming and clever … a must read’ EVIE WOODS The Midnight Library meets Ashley Poston, in an emotional, heartwarming debut romantic novel, where an engaged couple stumble upon a magical movie theatre that plays formative memories from their lives, showing secrets they both have been...

In this riveting historical thriller, a deadly plot unfolds aboard a train hurtling towards Paris. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue takes you on a heart-pounding ride in The Paris Express. 'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself'...

An engaged couple discovers a magical movie theater that challenges what they know about themselves—and each other—in this nostalgic and “utterly engrossing” (Margarita Montimore, USA TODAY bestselling author) debut that is perfect for fans of The Midnight Library and In Five Years. At...