Résultats pour "Olga" dans Roman féminin

“Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”—Booklist “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”—Evening Standard...

Brought to you by Penguin. Unlike anything you’ve read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in...

Mutter, Tochter, Enkelin. Drei Frauen auf der Suche nach einem Ort - im Leben und im Sterben. Ida möchte noch einmal in ihr Elternhaus. Doch sie hat einen Unfall im Schneetreiben und findet Unterschlupf bei einem älteren Ehepaar. Dort erscheint ihr ihre Mutter Paraskewia. Nach langer Ehe ist Paraskewias Mann gestorben, in ihrem Haus oben auf dem Berg, das im Winter von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten ist. Und so schreibt sie die Nachricht von seinem Tod in den Schnee. Ihre Enkelin Maja erlebt das Sterben ganz anders.

What can you possibly do when your dazzling life starts unraveling before your eyes? Julianna Di Santis, a 33-year-old ad executive with a dream life in New York City, is about to find out, as her life starts crumbling before her very eyes, leaving her to question everything she though she wanted.

Life can be blurred, shaped, and reshaped in many ways. Everywhere you look, you see circles, squares, lines, and more lines. What you never think is that one line, one tiny little line, can change your life. For Emily, Rachel, and Vera, best friends since college, their yearly girls-only vacation is the time they regroup and leave behind their daily worries and woes.

La periodista Olga Ruiz Minguito construye con elegancia y brillantez una novela que es el retrato de una época. En La redacción hay periodismo vibrante, romance y thriller.

Dulce, Adelfa, and Storm, the protagonists of I Love Your Cupcakes are business partners, friends, and share some "interesting" family connections. All the men Dulce meets only ever talk about her cakes, and she's tired of it. Her friend, Adelfa, although she's a chemistry professor, can't manage to find the recipe for the perfect relationship. And Storm, the third of the partners of their bakery/coffee shop/bookshop/art gallery and ex-fire station, is an artist who is not a master in the art of love.

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved...

After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write.

Cuando Olimpia se da de bruces con su pasado, presiente que sus problemas no han hecho más que empezar. Allí estaba él, mirándola fijamente con sus ojos negros, sin previo aviso y más atractivo todavía de lo que recordaba. Y Olimpia que creía que lo había superado... Como ella es una optometrista de lo más profesional, está dispuesta a probarse todas y cada una de las lentes correctoras que ha ido acumulando a lo largo de los años: las de los "sueños rotos", las de la "venganza", las de la "solitaria estabilidad" y las de "la ilusión".

Stadig chokeret efter fødslen flytter hun med sin svenske kæreste, Aksel, og deres lille søn til et sneomsust Stockholm. Snart må parret se sig selv falde ind i gamle kønsroller mod deres vilje, og en afgrund åbner sig imellem dem. Angst truer med at opsluge Anna, der læser alt for mange nyheder på nettet og shopper alt for meget tøj, hun ikke har råd til. For at stå imod en truende galskab må hun læse og skrive sig til rette i verden igen.

Nelle città di provincia le ragazze perbene si assomigliano tutte. Per sottrarsi a un futuro già raccontato, Clara si trasferisce a Londra, dove insegna italiano a ricchi expat e si trova intrappolata nel vortice degli incontri online. Ma il matrimonio della bellissima cugina Rossella, inseparabile compagna d'infanzia diventata poi modella di abiti da sposa, la richiama a Caserta.

Simona, una mujer en la mitad de sus cuarenta, sufre la muerte de su madre, una figura tutelar en su vida que, hasta cierto punto, era determinante para la construcción de su identidad. Este suceso coincide con la llegada de un amor inesperado a su vida. Nora, una fotógrafa de clase acomodada, hace tambalear sus certezas y la fortaleza que Simona creía tener. Así se dispara una travesía en la que conviven, en simultáneo, las dos acepciones del cortejo para crear una alegoría acerca de los ciclos de inicios, finales, pero sobre todo de transformaciones.

“Powerful and haunting . . . an intimate and unforgettable tale that transports the reader to the heart of Imperial Russia.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of...

Do you believe in love at first sight - or first click? Do you think your life should be a romantic novel? Would you like to be able to choose the ending? If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions or feel intrigued by them, this novel offers you a unique opportunity. You can choose what kind of ending you want: unhappy, happy, or neutral.

Pat thought she'd left her past behind and started a new life. But one doesn't get rid of voyeurism, obsessions and family quite that easily. Sometimes one has to adopt drastic measures to survive the harassment of a man, particularly a man like Herman. And this time Pat is determined to win, whatever the price.

A beautifully detailed, emotionally intense story by a Ukrainian writer Olga Kobylanska describes a relationship between three roommates - three very different young women, whose diverse personalities and life goals causes their union to oscillate wildly between the jarring dissonance and the perfect harmony.

Martina Vega está de vuelta. Su vida ha cambiado y ya no está agitada, ni revuelta, sino mezclada, no enredada. El amor es lo que tiene, nos transforma sin que nos demos cuenta. ¿Pero qué queréis que os diga que no sepáis todos ya? Las mezclas, a veces, ofrecen los mejores sabores. ¿Quieres averiguar qué tipo de cóctel será este? ¿Dulce? ¿Amargo o quizás picante?

“Syrian Jewish culture gets the Jane Austen treatment, with sisters Nina, Fortune and Lucy—the rebel, the good girl and the baby of the family, respectively—all on the marriage market. What’s Mama Cohen to do? Chehebar’s witty debut dives deep into Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community...

Encuentras de todo, y todo cabe, en los recovecos de la bolsa de una mujer. Del mismo modo, toda historia, todo mundo narrable, cabe en una prosa concisa, como es el caso. La bolsa en este libro es un "multiverso": se hallan cosas tan comunes como el chicle de Susanita —la hija—...