Showing titles in Biographical Fiction

Crippled by lupus at 25, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor was forced to leave New York City and return home to Andalusia, her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. Years later, as Flannery is finishing a novel and tending to her menagerie of peacocks, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend....

In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego, Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the California coast where he attempts to renew his spirit and clear his head of madness and alcohol. Only nature seems to restore him to a sense of balance. In the words of Allen Ginsberg, Big Sur "reveals consciousness in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion".

" Déjà, je me suis mis au monde tout seul. Ils étaient trois ou quatre à assister à l’événement, et ils m’ont toujours accordé une chose : c’est moi qui ai dû me taper le plus dur, vu que ma mère était, disons, hors du coup. " Né à même le sol d’un mobil-home au fin fond des Appalaches d’une jeune toxicomane et d’un père trop tôt disparu, Demon Copperhead est le digne héritier d’un célèbre personnage de Charles Dickens.

Madeleine Talmage Force is just 17 when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their 29-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love. On their honeymoon in Egypt, the newlyweds finally find a measure of peace away from photographers and journalists. Madeleine feels truly alive for the first time - and is happily pregnant. The couple plans to return home in the spring of 1912, aboard an opulent new ocean liner.

It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is 12 and her sister, Liz, is 15 when their artistic mother, Charlotte, a woman who flees every place she’s ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that’s been in the family for generations.

Also known as Demons, The Possessed is a powerful socio-political novel about revolutionary ideas and the radicals behind them. It follows the career of Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky, a political terrorist who leads a group of nihilists on a demonic quest for societal breakdown. They are consumed by their desires and ideals, and have surrendered themselves fully to the darkness of their "demons". This possession leads them to engulf a quiet provincial town and subject it to a storm of violence.

Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation, and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream.

Katherine Woodville's sister never gave her a choice. A happy girl of modest means, Kate hardly expected to become a maker of kings. But when her sister impulsively marries King Edward IV in secret, Katherine's life is no longer hers to control....

"- Tu seras un héros, tu seras général, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ambassadeur de France - tous ces voyous ne savent pas qui tu es ! Je crois que jamais un fils n'a haï sa mère autant que moi, à ce moment-là. Mais, alors que j'essayais de lui expliquer dans un murmure rageur qu'elle me compromettait irrémédiablement aux yeux de l'Armée de l'Air, et que je faisais un nouvel effort pour la pousser derrière le taxi, son visage prit une expression désemparée, ses lèvres se mirent à trembler, et j'entendis une fois de plus la formule intolérable, devenue depuis longtemps classique dans nos rapports : - Alors, tu as honte de ta vieille mère ?"

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.

Un roman foisonnant où Céline raconte son enfance et sa jeunesse : "C'est sur ce quai-là, au 18, que mes bons parents firent de bien tristes affaires pendant l'hiver 92, ça nous remet loin. C'était un magasin de "Modes, fleurs et plumes". Y avait en tout comme modèles que trois chapeaux, dans une seule vitrine, on me l'a souvent raconté. La Seine a gelé cette année-là. Je suis né en mai. C'est moi le printemps."

From humble beginnings in one of Brazil’s crowded favelas, soulmates Mario Ng and Ana Silva chase ambitious dreams - hers of being a music star - and his of becoming his country’s youngest astronaut. They find success as Ana’s music inspires a global audience and Mario rewrites the record books. How long can their happiness last in an era of rising seas, global unrest, and hackers bent on wreaking havoc? The answer is painful, and Mario must deal with the ghosts of his past, and ghosts of another era - nightmares with far-reaching consequences for the world below.

You may not know her name, but Eunice Newton Foote made groundbreaking discoveries about the greenhouse effect in the 1850s. Her experiments showed that different gases, including carbon dioxide, absorb and trap heat, an early milestone in the history of climate science. And even though her findings were published in a leading scientific journal – a rarity in the days of a male-dominated field – her work remained virtually unknown until recently.

ബഷീറിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച കൃതിയായി എക്കാലവും വിലയിരുത്തപ്പെട്ടിട്ടുള്ളത് 'ബാല്യകാല സഖി' യാണ്. അദ്ദേഹം തന്നെ അവകാശപ്പെടുന്നതനുസരിച്ച് അത് ആത്മകഥാംശം ഉൾക്കൊള്ളുന്ന ഒരു ദു:ഖ പര്യവസാനിയായ പ്രണയകഥയാണ്.

Für wen schrieb Mascha Kaléko all ihre wunderbaren Liebesgedichte? Sie ist der Star der pulsierenden Dichter-Szene der 20er Jahre – aber wer ist sie, wenn das Rampenlicht erlischt? Bestseller-Autorin Charlotte Roth setzt in ihrem großen biografischen Hörbuch einer der bedeutendsten Künstlerinnen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts ein ebenso kluges wie leidenschaftliches Denkmal. Im Berlin der Zwanzigerjahre, das vor Leben überquillt, findet die junge Mascha Kaléko ihre Stimme. Sie wird sie weltberühmt machen.

बाप मेला न कळता भाग २ - एका साधारण माणसाच्या आयुष्यातल्या मजेदार अनुभवांची ही एक उत्कृष्ट कथा

Forty years after the death of his uncle Désiré, Anthony Passeron decided to investigate his family’s past. Evoking the social climbing of his grandparents who became the local butchers during the period of great economic growth in France from 1945 to 1975, and the gulf that opened between them and their children’s generation, Sleeping Children weaves two stories: that of the appearance of AIDS in the early 1980s in a family living in the countryside near Nice, and that of the fight against the illness that was undertaken in a French hospital.

“Sei sempre stata un faro per la nostra famiglia”, le ripeteva sua madre. Alessandra, però, seconda di cinque figli, non voleva portare luce, voleva che qualcuno illuminasse la strada per lei e rispondesse alle sue domande di bambina. Cresciuta sotto la rigida disciplina dei Testimoni di Geova, ha sempre cercato di soddisfare le attese dei genitori e di non creare problemi. Così, fino a ventinove anni, non ha mai partecipato a un compleanno né spento una candelina. Non ha ascoltato la musica che ascoltavano i suoi coetanei né letto libri non approvati in comunità.

¿Qué sucede cuando una brillante filósofa convierte su biografía en una obra maestra? Por el autor de El arte de pensar, Filosofía ante el desánimo e Incompletos Más de 100.000 lectores. Tras una vida de esfuerzo y tenacidad, Eva, a sus cuarenta y tres años, logra alcanzar los dos objetivos que se había propuesto: ser catedrática de Filosofía, ganándose el respeto del gremio con una trayectoria profesional brillante, y ser madre. Lo demás pasa a un segundo plano, incluido un divorcio que la deja sola con una bebé de año y medio.

تتناول رواية توفيق الحكيم "طائر من الشرق" موضوع (العلاقة بين الشرق والغرب) في ظروف الصدمة التي نشأت في بداية عصر النهضة واكتشاف العرب لبشاعة ما وصلت إليه الحضارة الغربية.