Résultats pour "Invisible" dans Vie urbaine

Umiko Wada has had enough excitement in life. With an overbearing mother and her husband recently murdered, she just wants to keep her head down. As a secretary to a private detective, her life is pleasantly filled with coffee runs and paperwork. That is, until her boss takes on a new case. A case that is surrounded by shadows. A case that means Wada will have to leave Tokyo and travel to London.

A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City, journalist Julia Dahl introduces a compelling new character in search of the truth about a murder and an understanding of her own heritage. Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an...

‘A fierce, big-hearted novel.’ Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air ‘Pushes us to find our kinder selves.’ Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You ‘A wonderful book.’ Maurice Wren, Chief Executive of the Refugee Council One of the Guardian’s Readers’ Books of the...

Things are not quite okay. What is around the corner that is about to change everyone's lives? Set in the month of March, we follow Jalaal, a diligent but confused doctor. Despite being married with two children, Jalaal has never taken root anywhere. He's spent his career living out of a bag in sterile, lifeless accommodation as a locum doctor but now it's time to join his wife and children and finally settle in the East End of London.

En la ciudad de Nueva York, las vidas de tres exitosas profesionales se verán alteradas tras la muerte accidental de un reconocido empresario de la industria textil. Rodeadas por el sofisticado ambiente de la ciudad de los rascacielos y la industria de la moda, las tres mujeres, que en principio no deberían haber coincidido nunca, deberán aliarse para enfrentar un futuro incierto, pues sus vidas profesionales y sentimentales serán expuestas y cuestionadas por una élite empresarial que está dispuesta a verlas caer.

Emma y Samuel entran a un estudio de tatuajes en Tlatelolco y se topan de frente con alguien cuya perversión terminará por cambiar el rumbo de sus vidas. Este es un thriller de persecución, crimen e impunidad que muestra las cicatrices visibles einvisibles de nuestra sociedad. El tatuaje invisible refleja la ira y el dolor en todas sus caras. En él se reconocen las distintas formas de violencia que enfrentan las personas diariamente y cómo éstas reciben e infligen daño a la vez.

Aviva Kagan was a just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she wants her mother back in her life.

The London Classics Collection: Stories of the City allows you to step into the heart of London with a curated selection of iconic literary works that explore the soul of one of the world's most fascinating cities. From the smoky alleys of Victorian London to the political upheavals of the 20th century, this collection brings together stories that capture the city's rich history, diverse characters, and unflinching reflections on society.