Résultats pour "Novelle" dans 20e siècle

An unputdownable mother-daughter novel about secrets, the search for truth, and what it takes to find your place in the world. In the summer of 1993, 15-year-old Ellie Stein watches her unflappable mother drop and scatter an entire popcorn canister after hearing a news report about the death of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Two Chinese sisters, sold as wives to American merchants, must adapt to a strange new country in this “powerful” (The Washington Post) historical novel from the acclaimed author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. “A gifted...

1976. During the hottest summer in over three centuries, roads bubble, trains catch fire, and fields burn for days as the Robinson family’s emotions simmer toward an inevitable boil. On the morning of the hottest day of the summer in the English countryside, the Robinson children set out...

A lady bootlegger and a Temperance Saint in Prohibition Kentucky become unlikely partners in the fight against the men keeping them down in this rollicking novel from the bestselling author of A Most Agreeable Murder. Aster County Kentucky, 1926: Schoolteacher Nelle Hawkins is a fervent member...

"A beautifully written and gorgeous novel." —Marjan Kamali, New York Times bestselling author of The Lion Women of Tehran Minbak (n.) a lodging in a private home Korea, 1985: Hana Park's future is bright. A star student and beloved daughter, she dreams of a life beyond working at her family's...

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II—while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the Pulitzer-prize winning novel that confirmed Philip Roth as one of the greatest American writers. 'Swede' Levov is living the American dream. He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is...

WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE A letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Book...

1944, and war rages in the Pacific. Two young recruits from opposing sides destined to cross paths without ever meeting, changing their lives forever. Honolulu—Army nurse Lieutenant Jeannette Crawford volunteers to serve on a hospital ship, hoping to save the men she treats and worrying about the man she loves. But nothing can prepare her for the horrors she now faces on the front lines of the Pacific islands.

What really happened when Queen Elizabeth II met Marilyn Monroe? This stunning historical novel imagines the summer that bonded the world's two most famous women, both thirty years old and chafing against the façade of global celebrity. On a cool early-autumn evening in 1956, a glittering array...

The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the compelling historical dramas of the 20th century. 1949 tells the story of Ursula Halloran, a fiercely independent young woman who comes of age in the 1920s. The tragedy of Irish civil war gives way in the 1920s to a repressive Catholic state led by Eamon De Valera. Married women cannot hold jobs, divorce is illegal, and the IRA has become a band of outlaws still devoted to and fighting for a Republic that never lived.

Based on the true story of the last witchcraft trial in Britain during WWII, The Miracles explores the dark underbelly of a little-known side of history, the thin line between life and death, and the forgotten story of a case that gripped a nation. 1942: As war wages in Europe, a British...

Pulitzer prize-winning author David K. Shipler’s fictionalized story of a Vietnamese interpreter, based on his own experiences as a war correspondent, brings back the tensions within Vietnam during the war, focusing on a local with close ties to American journalists and politicians. The...

A lyrical multigenerational novel about two families—one Israeli and one Palestinian—and the house that connects them, by the award-winning author of The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land Jerusalem, 1939: An eccentric Jewish bookbinder and his young niece, Agata, are hired to repair books at...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this stunning historical novel, the celebrated author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan presents “a heartwarming love story of heroic love between a mother and daughter” (Bookreporter) during revolutionary-era China. “Astonishing . . . one of those...

“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times...

Ésta es la historia de un hombre, tres mujeres, una revolución y un tesoro. La revolución fue la de México en tiempos de Emiliano Zapata y Francisco Villa. El tesoro fueron quince mil monedas de oro de a veinte pesos de las denominadas maximilianos, robadas en un banco de Ciudad Juárez el 8 de mayo de 1911. El hombre se llamaba Martín Garret Ortiz y era un joven ingeniero de minas español. Todo empezó para él ese mismo día, cuando desde su hotel oyó un primer disparo lejano. Salió a la calle para ver qué ocurría y a partir de ese momento su vida cambió para siempre.

On the eve of WWI, two Berlin sisters find themselves on opposite sides of the war. One falls under the Führer’s spell—the other flees, putting an ocean and decades of silence between them. A child remains their last, secret bond. Gerda is thirteen when Hitler takes office; Ilse, eleven...

1940, England: Clementine Churchill is standing alone on a rooftop in London as bombs rain down on the city when a nearby explosion almost knocks her off her feet. Shaking, she rushes homewards to 10 Downing Street and breathes a sigh of relief when she sees the famous building is still there. It means the Prime Minister–her husband–is still alive.

For fans of The Reader and inspired by historical events in 1940s Italy, a poignant and hopeful novel in which a young, illiterate herdsman learns to read with the help of his two friends— rewriting his destiny in the process September 1942. Young Davide is no stranger to hunger or cruelty...