Résultats pour "Kim" dans Fiction

Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama, he travels through India, enthralled by the "roaring whirl" of the landscape and cities of richly colored bazaars and immense diversity of people. The novel is a masterpiece of careful organization and skillfully manipulated narrative techniques.

Dive into the rich and vibrant world of colonial India in Kim, a timeless adventure by Rudyard Kipling. This classic story follows the journey of Kimball O'Hara, an orphaned boy of Irish descent, as he navigates the complex cultural, political, and spiritual landscapes of late 19th-century India.

Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling's finest novel is the exciting and touching tale of an Irish orphan-boy who has lived free in the streets of Lahore before setting out, with a Tibetan Lama, on a spiritual quest. Kim later enrols in the Indian Service and simultaneously embarks on an espionage mission of supreme importance.

Questo affascinante romanzo di Rudyard Kipling ci mostra un lato dell’India e della cultura buddhista incredibilmente uscito da una penna inglese, in cui tutta la spiritualità orientale, a partire dalla Ruota delle orti e rinascite viene tratteggiata su un o scenario di panorami, di razze e persone comuni, di agenti segreti. Kim, l’allievo del Lama, ci porta con sé, nel suo viaggio iniziatico, in una ridda di avventure . Cornice musicale: Danza macabra, di Saint Saens.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

Un par un, des clients commencent à écrire dans ce journal leurs joies, leurs chagrins et leurs espoirs. Des voisins qui n'étaient autrefois que des visages anonymes choisissent de répondre et, peu à peu, de s'entraider. La laverie devient le lieu de rencontres précieuses qui vont bouleverser la vie de ceux qui en poussent la porte.

Écrit sur un ton féminin, sensible et très original, Ru dénote un grand talent dans l'art de raconter, où le souvenir devient prétexte tantôt au jeu, tantôt au recueillement. L'ouvrage est composé de très courts textes liés un peu comme dans une ritournelle, ce qui permet de faire le pont entre tous les événements que la narratrice a connus et qu'elle relate avec beaucoup d'esprit, de finesse : sa naissance au Vietnam pendant la guerre, sa fuite avec les boat people, son accueil dans une petite ville du Québec, ses études,...

Glówny bohater powiesci - Kim jest nastoletnim chlopcem, urodzonym w Indiach. Wychowywal sie bez rodziców - matki Hinduski i ojca Irlandczyka. Mimo trudnej sytuacji zyciowej, zachowal pogode ducha. Cechuje go równiez wyjatkowa bystrosc umyslu. Pewnego dnia spotyka na swojej drodze Teshoo - kaplana z Tybetu, który poszukuje swietej rzeki Lama. Na towarzysza wyprawy wybiera Kima.

Rudyard Kipling's classic adventure story, Kim, tells the tale of an Irish soldier's orphan son, who roams the back alleys and bazaars of British-ruled India. The young urchin learns the rules and language of the dirty streets, until he discovers his father's old army regiment. Suddenly, Kim abandons his former life and native customs, buys expensive European clothing, and begins a new career as a secret agent. Both an exciting adventure and a detailed look at a spy's inner conflicts, Kim is one of Kipling's most important and popular novels.

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Kimball O'Hara is an Irish orphan, but he runs free in the streets of India. As a boy, he shows self-reliance and resourcefulness, running errands for Mahbub Ali, who works for the British Secret Service. Kim also meets a Tibetan lama who is on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life and becomes his disciple. Together they have wonderful adventures on the exotically colorful Grand Trunk Road through the Indian countryside.

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering on an unprecedented scale. It is an unexpected death, but one that might have been foreseen....

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Esta novela ha pasado de ser la breve historia de una joven coreana a convertirse en un terremoto que ha sacudido a las mujeres de medio mundo. Kim Ji-young (que lleva el nombre más común entre las mujeres coreanas nacidas en 1982) es aparentemente una mujer como cualquier otra, con una juventud sin pena ni gloria, siempre a la sombra.

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By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world's climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next.

Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple fact - just like the hot Appalachian breeze or the pests that can wipe out a tobacco field in days. RubyLyn Bishop is luckier than some. Her God-fearing uncle, Gunnar, has a short fuse and high expectations, but he's given her a good home ever since she was orphaned at the age of five. Yet now, a month shy of her 16th birthday, RubyLyn itches for more.

Meet Harriet. But don't be surprised if she isn't interested in meeting you. Harriet has life all figured out, and she doesn't hesitate to inform others of their shortcomings. Though her attempts to become president of the homeowner's association failed, that doesn't stop her from berating "off-leash-dog-man" or reporting the neighbor who had the audacity to leave their Easter decorations up an entire week past the holiday. The problem is, unbeknownst to her, Harriet's rigid rules and judgmental opinions are not her own.

In June 1934, Kim Philby met his Soviet handler, the spy Arnold Deutsch. The woman who introduced them was called Edith Tudor-Hart. She changed the course of 20th-century history. Then she was written out of it. Drawing on the secret intelligence files on Edith Tudor-Hart, along with the private archive letters of Kim Philby, this finely worked, evocative and beautifully tense novel—by the granddaughter of Kim Philby—tells the story of the woman behind the Third Man.

In een drukke winkel klemt een klein meisje zich vast aan haar teddybeer, op zoek naar haar moeder. Uren later wordt er een lichaam ontdekt in een verlaten gebouw. Op het eerste gezicht lijkt het op een snelle, doelgerichte moord. Maar Kims instinct vertelt haar dat er meer aan de hand is. Een dag later wordt een tweede slachtoffer gevonden. Net als bij Katrina is haar nek gebroken, maar haar zesjarige zoon wordt vermist. Kim probeert een doorbraak te forceren in wat snel een complexe zaak aan het worden is.