Résultats pour "The Call" dans Fiction contemporaine

Fires light the sky over Kibera - East Africa's largest slum. It is the prelude to the bloody violence that erupts during Kenya's presidential elections. Joshua Otieng is caught between the brutal realities of life in the slum, and his dream of a return to the glories of his ancestral past. Mayasa is a young woman he believes could share his dreams, but he becomes inexorably swept along in the tide of tribal conflict surrounding the upcoming elections.

Eigentlich kehren die ungleichen Freundinnen Zoe und Hailey New York den Rücken, um im Berlin der Nullerjahre Kunst zu studieren. Hailey auf der Suche nach Erfolg; Zoe, um über den Tod ihrer besten Freundin hinwegzukommen. Immer tiefer tauchen sie ins Berliner Nachtleben ein und versuchen, sich in der Szene einen Namen zu machen. Schließlich eröffnen sie einen illegalen Club in ihrer Wohnung, die ihnen die Krimi-Autorin Beatrice überlassen hat, und veranstalten immer wildere Partys. Schon bald verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being "jostled by a nautical-looking negro".