Résultats pour "Adults" dans Vie urbaine

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Love, sex, death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness, brutality, sacrifice and revelation. This incendiary collection of stories from acclaimed writer Christos Tsiolkas, best-selling author of The Slap and Barracuda, takes you deep into worlds both strange and familiar, and introduces you to characters who will never let you go and situations that will haunt you forever.

Viven en Madrid, en la actualidad. Ella es arquitecta, tiene miedo a hacer proyectos de futuro y busca algo que no puede definir. Él escribe ensayos, lleva cuatro años a su lado y nunca pensó en verse soltero de nuevo, en un «mercado» sentimental del que lo desconoce todo. Por las grietas de su derrumbe como pareja entran las amistades, sus consejos y sus vidas, la mayoría de las veces con más dudas que certezas. Es la generación Tinder, la de unas personas que eliminan a otras con un dedo; una generación en la que todos están expuestos y a la postre desencantados.

Nella banlieue multietnica di Parigi, il piccolo Momò dagli occhi neri vive con Madame Rosa, anziana prostituta ebrea sopravvissuta ad Auschwitz, il cane Super e altri ragazzini. Tutti i bambini hanno una mamma che ogni tanto li va a trovare, eccetto Momò, le cui origini sono un mistero. In un universo popolato di venditori di tappeti, trans senegalesi e mangiatori di fuoco, Momò affronta le difficoltà della vita e con innocenza e tenacia va incontro al futuro.

Dr Malcolm Goldblatt has one last chance in the NHS. As the temporary senior registrar of a London hospital, he needs to prove to the medical establishment he can toe the corporate line. But this new hospital is all rather depressingly familiar - from Dr Madic's ferocious aversion to work, Dr Burton's knife-in-the-back ambition, right up to the pathologically insecure yet monstrously vain Professor Small, it is an environment of short tempers, back-biting and office politics - a place in which caring for patients seems secondary to caring for professional reputations.

'Sunshine in book form' – Daily Mail 'A joyfully escapist celebration of friendship and freedom' – Mail on Sunday 'Delightful, heartwarming . . . An especially welcome reminder of the bright spots even in dark times' – NPR Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the...

Heiko hasn't finished high school. His father is an alcoholic. His mother left. His housemate organizes illegal dogfights. He works in his uncle's gym. He definitely isn't one of society's winners, but he has his chosen family, the pack of soccer hooligans he's grown up with. His uncle is the leader, and gradually Heiko has risen in the ranks, until he's recognized in the stands of his home team and beyond the stadium walls, where, after the game, he and his gang represent their city in brutal organized brawls with hooligans from other localities.

Powerful urban fiction about a young grifter trying to find her way to legitimacy. Sandie Donovan is abandoned in her teen years by a neglectful father and it takes all her cleverness and resilience to survive and establish herself in New York City. Wiser than her years, her path toward the straight and narrow is circuitous as she seeks to take charge of her life.

Punk pushes both the rules of writing and the dominant ideas and expectations of our society. Thrown into the world of punk rock in the early 1990s, this novel follows the intertwining lives of a wandering reject and the people he meets as he learns of his fathers’ unexpected death. It explores themes of social structure and religious indifference through the eyes of this disenfranchised man living from one high to the next. The story takes place over a few hot summer days in Edmonton, Alberta.

Ana, una joven inmigrante, llega a una ciudad anónima de los Estados Unidos, donde se ha autoexiliado para encontrar una vida propia, un lugar en el mundo. Hasta allí la persiguen los ecos insospechados del ataque a las Torres Gemelas, que la obligan a deambular entre los rigores de una vida en un país ajeno y las nostalgias de quien sabe lo que ha perdido porque le cuesta recordarlo.