Résultats pour "Olga" dans Littérature et fiction

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior...

In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her 60s, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; she’s unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation.

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighbourhood in Brooklyn, while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's power brokers. Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the one per cent, but she can't seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets.

The protagonist, Jesús, is ugly. Extraordinarily ugly. He is so ugly that his friends and relatives are convinced that behind that ugliness there must be something else. A malefic power or possibly a momentous fate. The truth is that fairly special things happen wherever Jesús is. His biological father is a mystery. His half-sister is a child-prodigy who excels at everything she does, his mother becomes the president of the country, his best-friend Vero is a computer tycoon, his brother-in-law also makes it in politics...But for all the success around him he still feels unsettled.

"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...

Gabrielle sabe que los zapatos sientan bien a todas las mujeres, tengan la talla que tengan. Que calzada con unos stilettos cualquier chica puede sentirse capaz de comerse el mundo y, que las zapatillas adecuadas tienen el mismo efecto que un tacón de diez centímetros. Por ello ha escogido...

Con tan solo dieciocho años, Genevieve Farrell dejó atrás su ciudad natal y prometió que no regresaría hasta convertirse en una persona diferente. Los años han pasado y todos sus propósitos se han cumplido, pero nunca ha deseado regresar. Hasta que un incidente inesperado la lleva de...

Alex Blackesley ha decidido que ya es tiempo de regresar a casa y plantearse qué va a hacer con su vida más allá del trabajo, la única parcela de su caótica existencia que está perfectamente ordenada. Lo que no se espera es conocer a alguien tan similar a ella y a la vez tan distinto, y...

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...

¿Os ha pasado alguna vez que al despertar una mañana habéis descubierto que vuestra vida está patas arriba? ¿Sí? Pues eso mismo me acaba de suceder a mí, Martina Vega, treintañera, soltera, en busca del trabajo de mis sueños y del hombre capaz de soportarme. Y os aseguro que no es tarea...