Résultats pour "Laura Story" dans Littérature mondiale

“Without stories, we cannot live well,” shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friendship may become a casualty of the Russia-Ukraine war. Rejected by his lover, a man seeks to reconcile with his family. Twitter users miraculously muster enough empathy to help a lost cat find a forever home.

For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that explore bodies both human and animal: our fascination with their strange effluences, growths, and protrusions, and the dangerous ways we play with their power to inflict harm on ourselves and on others.

Belgium, July 1939: Simone Lyon is the daughter of a Belgium national hero, the famous General Joseph Lyon. Her best friend Hava Daniels, is the eldest daughter of a devout Jewish family. Despite growing up in different worlds, they are inseparable. But when, in the spring of 1940, Nazi planes and tanks begin bombing Brussels, their resilience and strength are tested. Hava and Simone find themselves caught in the advancing onslaught and are forced to flee.

Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined.

Una mujer se enamora de un vecino por cómo cuida las plantas de su terraza. Un hombre organiza una fiesta con todos sus seres queridos para celebrar el final de una larga enfermedad. Una niña acompaña a su madre a ver pisos que nunca podrán permitirse y un padre lleva a su hija adoptada a conocer a su madre biológica....

Le storie che compongono ArtifiCina – terza raccolta di racconti di fantascienza cinese in doppia lingua - esplorano il rapporto tra la natura “naturale” e quella “artificiale”, che rappresenta ormai uno dei tratti salienti della cultura cinese contemporanea.

Nicolas Gogol es considerado como uno de los padres del realismo literario, pero en sus cuentos casi podría decirse que no solo hay realismo sino tambien una buena dosis de surrealismo, el mismo que se pondría de moda casi un siglo mas tarde, por lo que el insigne escrito es igualmente un precursor.

Todo el mundo conoce el gran ballet con musica de Tchaikovsky, Cascanueces pero el relato de Hoffmann en que esta obra fue basada no ha corrido la misma suerte y es lastima, por que como se puede ver en este maravilloso libro, la vena fantastica que caracterizo a Hoffmann.

Festliche Gedichte und Geschichten zum Hören. Wenn das Haus nach Plätzchen duftet und der Tannenbaum im Kerzenlicht erstrahlt, wirkt der Zauber der Weihnacht wieder in unseren Herzen. Elf wundervolle Gedichte und Erzählungen für die Adventszeit, gefühlvoll gelesen von Elke Heidenreich, Gert Heidenreich, Juliane Köhler u. v. m.

Nostalgische Lesungen für die Winterzeit. Schon immer hat das Weihnachtsfest einen besonderen Zauber auf die Menschen gewirkt. Sieben gefühlvolle Erzählungen und Gedichte großer Autoren lassen die vergangenen Zeiten nostalgisch aufleben. Gelesen von Gert Heidenreich, Laura Maire, Sabine Kastius u. v. a.