Ergebnis für "Trauma" in 20. Jahrhundert

Herxheim in der Pfalz, 1948: Sein Name ist alles, was Liese bleibt von ihrem kleinen Sohn: Johannes. Und die Erinnerung an seine blauen Augen. Die hat er von seinem Vater, einem französischen Besatzungssoldaten und Lieses großer Liebe. Von einem gemeinsamen Leben in Paris hatten sie geträumt, bis er aus Deutschland abgezogen wurde und aus ihrem Leben verschwand. Als Johannes zwei Jahre alt ist, wird er im Rahmen eines großangelegten Kindertransfers der französischen Regierung als »französisches« Kind seiner Mutter entrissen und in Frankreich unter neuem Namen zur Adoption freigegeben.

All the Sinners Bleed meets Erasure in this literary thriller from the award-winning author of The Reformatory following the grandson of a famous Black actress who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old...

Bloomsbury presents Last House Before the Mountain by Monika Helfer, read by Kristin Atherton. 'Beautiful and heartbreaking ... I absolutely loved it' Monica Ali, Sunday Times Bestselling author of Love Marriage 'A poignant, captivating, beautifully woven family saga. As honest as Elena Ferrante...

A young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his mother’s past and the country of her birth, from bestselling and prize-winning Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye Milan – the twelve-year-old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother – blames...

A war widow and a neglected boy form a chosen family in a profoundly moving multigenerational saga about the transformative power of kindness by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. It’s 1970 in rural California where Shirley Bennett, a forty-year-old Vietnam War widow, lives...

In a novel both intimate and expansive, World War II comes to a farm through a crew of Nazi prisoners, and each of the family members must reckon with the legacies of violence and the imperfections of love and forgiveness. It is the summer of 1944, and the war has come to Maine. Ever since her...

'Richly evocative' STACEY HALLS 'Heartbreaking' RACHEL HORE 'Touching, absorbing'' DAILY MAIL 'Poignant . . . There'll be tears' WOMAN & HOME 'An enveloping story to savour' KATE SAWYER A luminous debut novel of a love affair set against the terrible aftermath of war, for readers of IN MEMORIAM...

The family seemed intricately bound together with threads frayed with age, yet still strong and permanent . . . until he came. Despite the “crinkled pink petals strewn in the path of those who would have preferred red,” four generations of Eliots have survived the War and are moving forward...

'An astonishing debut novel . . . blazingly vivid' Irish Times 'Magnificent' Belinda McKeon, author of Solace and Tender 'Truly unforgettable' Fíona Scarlett, author of Boys Don't Cry 'Everything I love in a novel' Jennie Godfrey, bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things A...

Bloomsbury presents The Unrecovered by Richard Strachan, read by Anna Burnett. Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut prize 'Beautifully written' Michelle Paver 'I devoured this' Rebecca Netley 'A rare gem of gothic literature' A. M. Shine At a Scottish manor house requisitioned as a...

In the fall of 1939, while Europe grapples with the outbreak of war, Mimi Lukas wages a private battle in her Chicago neighborhood. Her husband, Stan, once a promising White Sox player, has been sidelined by a broken leg. His hopes of returning to baseball are dwindling along with their savings...

Brought to you by Penguin. Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the...

From a poetic new voice in historical fiction comes a story of resistance, community, and survival set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Austrian Alps and the heartbreaking onset of World War II. Growing up on a farm, high among the flowering slopes of Carinthia, Mitzi Hausler has never...

From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, healing, and the redemptive power of art, set against the turmoil of post-World War II France and inspired by the life of Marc Chagall “[A] spellbinding fable of sanctuary, art, and recovery.”...

Discover the emotionally gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling historical fiction and family saga author. Liverpool, 1920. With her troubles in the past, Polly Caveney is free to live the life she loves travelling the country with Farrell’s fairground and her sweetheart Fergus...

'Remarkable' Charmaine Wilkerson 'Heartbreaking' Ericka Waller 'Moving and hopeful' Imogen Crimp 'Beautifully crafted' Ania Card ___ A sweeping and emotional debut from a dazzling new voice - for fans of The Paper Palace, The Dutch House and Betty. Coming of age in 1940s England, Alice's life is...

The Orphanage Girls come back together in The Orphanage Girls Reunited, the second installment of the moving wartime saga set in London’s East End. From the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen. Abandoned by her father for the second time, left scarred from the...

From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic setting becomes host to a deadly...

Stephanie Sandford, recently widowed, must tell her family the truth. But the past is indistinct and it's complicated. First, there was her mum, who developed an anxious streak after marrying the wrong Reg. And then there was the young man from the dairy who gave Stevie swimming lessons before...