Resultados para "Sophie" en Narrativa literaria

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.

Joséphine est une trentenaire ordinaire. Jusqu'au moment où, en quelques jours, sa vie bascule : elle découvre la double vie de son petit ami et se fait licencier. Pour couronner le tout, sa voisine meurt sous ses yeux, victime d'une chute de pot de fleurs sur la tête ! Certains diraient que Joséphine a un mauvais karma, qu'elle enchaîne les catastrophes. Qu'à cela ne tienne : elle décide de quitter Paris pour conjurer le mauvais sort. Cap sur l'Angleterre. Mais là-bas non plus, la vie de Joséphine n'est pas un long fleuve tranquille.

Beginning in 1938 Germany, Sophie L.: A Life in Five Moves chronicles the moves of a Jewish woman, Sophie, as she travels from war-torn Europe to South America, finally settling in the United States. Sophie's life is full of ups and downs, but the two things that remain the same are her resilience and adaptability. Leslie Berlin weaves together a beautiful narrative that effectively captures what it's like to have a home that is constantly changing.

A heart-wrenching and unforgettable story of two women - centuries apart - linked by the hidden secrets of a beautiful woman in a Venetian painting. Venice 1704: Anastasia is desperate to escape her controlling father and plans to marry her childhood sweetheart. But instead of the life she has always dreamed of, she finds herself trapped in Venice, the unwilling wife of a silk weaver. Anastasia seeks comfort in painting and draws strength from her talents. Despite her circumstances, two women reach out to her and give Anastasia a reason to hope....

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic in China.