Ergebnis für "The Letters" in Zeitgenössische Literatur

The letter is a tribute to the servicemen and women who fought in the Afghanistan War. A letter to her son that every parent dreads. It is a letter from a grieving mother to her son to enable her to make sense of it all. The letter follows Karen and her husband during their last days as service personnel.

Narciso no llegó con un arpón en la mano, sino con un girasol y un amor de cuento. Prendió la primera llama para luego salvarme del incendio y me sedujo con ese traje de príncipe que resguardaba a un dragón. Se convirtió en mi lugar seguro, en el agua que necesitaba para sobrevivir. Me ató los pies y se encargó de hacerme olvidar que alguna vez, antes de él, esos pies fueron aletas.

Con una prosa affascinante quanto i personaggi e le storie che racconta, "Ufficio lettere perdute" si svolge in Francia tra il 1967 e 1968, nell'angolo più discreto dell'ufficio postale di Angers: la Stanza 7, o l'Ufficio Lettere Perdute. Non un semplice luogo, ma uno stato di coscienza, un arbitro silenzioso e sensibile degli eventi e delle emozioni, il vero narratore dell'opera, incentrata sulle relazioni tra i dipendenti e una rete invisibile di destini interconnessi.

Carta roja es el relato de una lucha sin tregua. Es la historia de tantas familias peruanas tratando de sobrevivir en medio del campo de batalla. Esta es una historia basada en hechos reales necesaria para comprender la barbarie que significó la lucha contra el terrorismo y la persverancia del espíritu humano que busca paz en medio de la guerra.

Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was very enamored with his daughter, Susi, and remained so up to her untimely death at age 24 in 1896. In 1875, at the age of 3, she had written her first letter to Santa Claus. As a writer and loving father, Twain, couldn't stand for his young daughter to feel like her work went unheard, so he penned the following letter to "My Dear Susie Clemens" from "The Man in the Moon" himself.

Nora Fawn's daughter, Hope, disappeared four years ago. Nora has never known why. Refusing to answer her mother's calls, emails or texts, Hope maintained contact only with her big sister, Joy. Having once considered her mothering to be the greatest achievement of her life, Nora's spent these...

Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing. DEAD LETTERS: When Lavinia's attention was fully engaged by the tele-vision, as often as not the pen would lower onto the paper and the words appear.

"Quella mattina ricevetti una lettera diversa dal solito". Inizia così l'ultimo audiolibro di Amélie Nothomb, in cui la scrittrice si confronta con un genere che conosce bene, quello epistolare. Amélie infatti passa parte del suo tempo a rispondere alle lettere dei suoi numerosissimi fan. La lettera arriva da un soldato americano di stanza a Bagdad, Melvin Mapple. Siamo agli inizi della presidenza Obama. L'uomo spera di tornare a casa.