Ergebnis für "franz" in Coming of Age

It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents–Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife–tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

Thomas Brussig's slim novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, is a satire set, literally, on the Sonnenallee, the famed "boulevard of the sun" in East Berlin. Within this boulevard lives Michael, an adolescent who faces daily ridicule whenever he steps out of his apartment building and comes into view of the observation platform on the West side.

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections. Includes an interview with the author. Young Pip Tyler doesn’t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she’s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she’s squatting with anarchists in...

"Es gab eine Woche, in der wir fünfzig Tonnen an freiwilligen Spenden entsorgen mussten. Die Flüchtlinge wollten keine Kleidung und kein Essen mehr, weil sie einfach schon genug hatten." Franz Schabhüttl, 26 Jahre im Flüchtlingslager Traiskirchen tätig und 13 Jahre dessen Leiter, legt mit dem Eintritt in den Ruhestand keine Abrechnung vor. Er informiert vielmehr darüber, was abseits des Fokus der Medien und der Nichtregierungsorganisationen im Asylsystem wirklich passiert.

‘Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.’ Jonathan Franzen Virginia, 1966. The motionless deeps of the lake outside Stillwater College are being ruffled. Lee...

Primo e meno noto romanzo di Kafka, "America" narra le tragicomiche vicende di un ragazzo praghese che, per una disavventura con una cameriera, viene spedito dalla famiglia oltreoceano. In questa terra sconfinata, il candido e disorientato Karl cercherà la sua strada incappando in sventure e tradimenti, benefattori o presunti tali, e situazioni oltremodo bizzarre. Kafka lasciò incompiuta questa sua opera dagli echi dickensiani.

Hier habt ihr ihn, Freunde! Den meistgelesenen Mädchenroman in einer packenden Hörspielfassung! Emmy von Rhoden, die Dichterin, ahnte den Welterfolg nicht, als sie damals - vor etlichen Jahrzehnten - mit ihrer Erzählung vor die Öffentlichkeit trat, mit der Erzählung von dem blutjungen Mädchen Ilse, das sich durch seinen Widerspruchsgeist fast sein Lebensglück verscherzt. Aber, euch sei es schon verraten, es gibt ein "Happy End" - alles wendet sich schließlich zum Guten.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.