Résultats pour "Dalee" dans Passage à l'âge adulte

Es ist ein großes Wagnis. Ein rostiger Dampfer mit einer ganzen Elefantenherde im Bauch sticht in Kalkutta in See und nimmt Kurs auf die Andamaneninseln. An Bord sind auch der junge Bellini, seine Familie und ihr Arbeitselefant, Dalee. Indien ist gerade unabhängig geworden, und die Familie lässt alles hinter sich, um auf dem fernen Archipel ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Keiner von ihnen ahnt, was sie dort erwartet.

As war looms, 11-year-old Mara hopes the knights of the god Belthor's church will protect her. Instead, they arrest her outspoken aunt Lila on trumped-up charges of witchcraft. When adults refuse to get involved, Mara steps up to rescue her aunt. Secrets unravel which cause her to see her mother, her father, and her country in a new way. Mara's curiosity, intelligence, and sense of right and wrong draw her into intrigues which will define her life.

Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, 10-year-old Eunice lives in the backwaters of Wisconsin with her outrageously narcissistic mother, a manicureeste and movie-star worshipper. Abandoned by her father as an infant, Eunice worries that she will become a misfit like her mother.

Grandmother took off her amulet of power and placed it over Carena's neck. The council looked askance. Carena's sisters and mother looked jealous. Grandmother looked smug. Then she turned into a pile of dust. Carena picked up the pile of dust, then blew each bit of dust out into the air. She let the fire ripple down her arms. And one by one, she ignited each speck of dust, so that it shone like a star just for an instant. Somehow she knew, this was what Grandmother would have wanted.