Résultats pour "Rumi" dans Fiction

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s.

Listen to Elif Shafak's The Forty Rules of Love reviewed on NPR In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her 2007 novel, The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when...

Rumi vive nas ruas, preso ao seu passado doloroso, até que conhece Malu. Nessa troca de amizade e afeto, sua vida se ilumina para novas possibilidades. Uma história sobre como, no encontro com o outro, acabamos encontrando nós mesmos. "Uma leitura doce, que sacode a alma da gente e faz possível sentir a pulsação da vida que insiste em viver, mas que figura uma das faces mais severas do desequilíbrio social." Lorrane Benedicto "Adorei Rumi. Me fez pensar em algumas leituras sensíveis, importantes para sairmos de nosso confortável e privilegiado lugar.

New York Times Bestselling Author “The greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” —New York Times Book Review Jackie Burke’s future looks grim. She’s been a flight attendant for twenty years and she’s down to working for an island–hopping airline the day she lands in Palm...

Linnéa har ett tråkigt men stabilt jobb som hotellreceptionist. Snabbt måste hon komma på ett kreativt sätt att dra in pengar till hyran. Problemet är bara att Linnéa – trots sitt blomlika namn – knappt kan se skillnad på en pelargon och en monstera. Och mitt bland sticklingarna och spaljéerna dyker en het trädgårdsmästare upp och ställer till det ytterligare i Linnéas annars så ordnade och principfasta tillvaro.

**National Bestseller **New York Times Notable Book “Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own.” —Sturgill Simpson Made into a major...

Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love.

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought it inspired by the 1953 conquest of Everest. But Bowman had drawn on the flavour and tone of earlier adventures, of Bill Tilman and his 1937 account of the Nandi Devi expedition. The book's central and unforgettable character, Binder, is one of the finest creations in comic literature.

"Der var to piger på gården, altid i lyse halvlange kjoler, med fregnede ben og beskidte hænder. Fra april til september uden sko og strømper. De havde strittende hestehaler, fastgjorte med brune elastikker. De havde halmstrå i håret, fordi de altid legede ude i laden. Sunde og stærke var de, med flade rødmossede ansigter. Når jeg vendte ryggen til dem glemte jeg, hvordan de så ud."

In the heart of a quiet town, Emma and Peter share an unwavering love, marred only by their silent yearning for a child. However, as the night falls, a shadow looms over their relationship. An enigmatic woman, Sarena, dances into Peter's dreams, seducing him with a world where passion reigns and reality fades. Each morning, he awakens, more entrapped by her allure, his sketches bearing witness to a growing obsession.

In a high-energy, adventure-filled romp across four countries and two continents, Four Borders to Freedom follows the adventures of a teenage boy as he escapes the confining political and social system of Iran to freedom.

Sonata de Primavera es una historia ambientada en Italia, durante la juventud del Marqués de Bradomín, una especie de Don Juan, un aprendiz de Casanova, que relata en las Sonatas sus aventuras y desventuras. Del Valle Inclán nos entrega en Sonata de Primavera un producto inesperado, insólito, en el que cada frase, cada sustantivo es cincelado con el adjetivo adecuado para llevarnos a un final inesperado.

A daughter and mother: two women miles, years, and dreams apart. One defies traditions and expectations. The other conforms to them, even in a new land. Their emotional distance grows while the daughter, now a wife and mother herself, comes to better understand the woman she’s become and why, as she ruminates on inherited trauma, the need to forgive, and the lengths she’ll go to free herself from the past.

La Gordinflona es la historia de una prostituta francesa. Guy de Maupassant utiliza la imagen de esta mujer como representación del pueblo francés, sin títulos ni dinero, engañados por la clase dirigente, derrotados. Son ellos quienes sufren las verdaderas consecuencias de la guerra. Boule de Suif (o La Gordinflona) nos presenta también la hipocresía de las clases acomodadas de la época, más interesadas en su propio beneficio que en el de Francia.

Contemplación (Betrachtung) es el primer libro publicado por Franz Kafka, alrededor de 1912. Este pequeño libro está compuesto de dieciocho cuentos, cuyo orden fue minuciosamente escogido por Kafka. Son cuentos muy cortos, casi minimalistas, cuya belleza esta en el detalle que asemeja los delicados pincelazos de una pintura o el detalle de una fotografía muy particular. RUMI Productions los invita a disfrutar de esta singular obra de Franz Kafka.

Un Viaje es una satira, una historia corta en la que se confunden las tradiciones del siglo IXX, con la burla educada de un escritor que vivio estas mismas tradiciones. Es uno de los mayores ejemplos del Costumbrismo Latino Americano. Su personaje principal el nino Goyito, es sinonimo de persona acomodada, incluso hoy.

"Una Pequena Nube", por James Joyce, es la historia de dos hombres, dos amigos de infancia que se encuentran luego de muchos anos para beber juntos. Es una historia sobre el contraste de sus vidas, sobre la envidia, la hipocresia y la inconformidad.