Résultats pour "Vienna" dans Fiction

Prisonnier d'un mariage malheureux, Ian Jarrett est persuadé que plus jamais il ne connaîtra l'amour. Et pourtant... Lorsqu'il rencontre Marian Esguard dans un parc enneigé de Vienne, où il est venu prendre des photos pour un magazine, le coup de foudre est immédiat. De retour à Londres, Ian n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : se séparer de sa femme et rejoindre comme promis l'élue de son coeur. Mais lorsqu'il arrive enfin au rendez-vous tant attendu, sur la côte anglaise, Marian n'est pas là. Obsédé par cet amour qui a bouleversé sa vie, Ian décide alors de retrouver sa trace. Ce qu'il apprend le déconcerte davantage.

Varcare il confine vicino a Metz, attraversare il Württemberg e la Baviera, raggiungere in treno Vienna e Budapest, proseguire a cavallo per la steppa russa, superare gli Urali e la Siberia, costeggiare il lago Bajkal e ridiscendere il fiume Amur fino all’Oceano. Poi, fermarsi a Sabirk ad aspettare una nave di contrabbandieri olandesi. È così che nel 1861 Hervé Joncour, che compra e vende bachi da seta, arriva in Giappone. È così che arriva al suo destino, che ha il volto di una ragazzina.

Ein Abenteuer in Frankreich, ist der Neubeginn, den sie braucht! Nach zehn Jahren in ihrem Job wurde Lily Butterworth entlassen. Wie jede kluge Frau weiß sie, dass das Heilmittel gegen die Entlassung ein bisschen zu viel Wein und ihre beste Freundin sind. Doch am nächsten Morgen hat Lily...

Un kamikaze si fa esplodere in un locale a Tel Aviv. Nella strage muore un giovane, si chiama Arièl Anav, è italiano e indossa la divisa dell'esercito israeliano. All'arrivo all'aeroporto Ben Gurion ai genitori, Micòl e Daniel, viene comunicato che per riavere il corpo del figlio dovranno attendere: lui e il terrorista suicida erano così vicini che la deflagrazione ne ha mischiato i resti. Come si chiama chi è orfano di un figlio? La parola non esiste. I figli ci crescono accanto ma di loro non conosciamo che una minima parte, il resto è mistero.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEXT WORDS HE WRITES COULD BE HIS LAST . . . Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time. But when the Nazis take over, everything changes. With their Jewish families' now under threat, the writers...

In the heart of darkening Europe, amidst the looming war, "Vienna on Fire" by Don Gabor tells the riveting story of Greta Kolbe, an eighteen-year-old Jewish woman whose life was upended when German troops annexed Austria in 1938. Her peaceful existence is replaced by a nightmare of terror as she, along with Vienna's Jewish community, faces an ordeal of intimidation. Greta's journey of resilience begins as she flees Nazi Vienna to escape arrest for her resistance activities, embarking on a dangerous trek to Holland, with a spiteful ex-suitor and the Gestapo closely trailing her.

Prosegue lo straordinario racconto epico del Mulino del Po. La seconda generazione degli Scacerni non è eroica e di animo nobile quanto la prima. Il figlio di Lazzaro, Peppino, detto Coniglio Mannaro perché codardo e imbroglione, si arricchisce partecipando alle azioni criminali del sovraintendente Alpi e di Pietro Vergoli e quanto più si arricchisce tanto più diventa avaro e meschino. Cecilia Rei, che Coniglio Mannaro sposa con l’inganno, lotta da sola per la salvezza dei figli e dei mulini.

I'm a damsel in distress without health insurance and an upcoming surgery. Zane is my billionaire knight in a three-piece suit, an affectionate smile, and a stuttering voice. When I run out of all options, he proposes a gentleman's offer, generous and beautiful, exactly like him. We get into a marriage of convenience until my life is back to normal. Simple. But nothing is simple in my grand wedding and designer wedding dress. Ours is possibly the only fake wedding where every custom is followed to the word—including consummating the marriage.

Una novela que nos sumerge en la historia de la Europa Central del siglo XX, la ciudad de Viena y el largo peregrinaje del pueblo judío a través de una saga familiar en pos de un sueño: alcanzar la Tierra Prometida. Esther, hija de una familia de orígenes judíos, nace el mismo día en que se firma el Tratado de Versalles, que pone fin a la devastadora Primera Guerra Mundial. Su padre, el doctor Paul Dukas, obsesionado con su ascenso personal y profesional, y convertido al cristianismo.

With the end of the Second World War in sight, the Allies begin to divide up the spoils and it proves to be a dangerous game. The British have become aware that the Soviet Union is intent on controlling Austria once the war ends. Major Edgar is given the job of establishing an espionage unit in...

Esther, hija de una familia de orígenes judíos, nace el mismo día en que se firma el Tratado de Versalles, que pone fin a la devastadora Primera Guerra Mundial. Su padre, el doctor Paul Dukas, obsesionado con su ascenso personal y profesional, y convertido al cristianismo, descubrirá muy pronto que el pasado judío de un hombre no se perdona fácilmente.

In the tradition of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. Vienna Nocturne is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures—a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a...

Nazi-occupied Vienna, 1940. As bombs fall over Europe, Hannah Stern is a 27-year-old nurse who is just trying to survive. When she takes a position at Vienna’s esteemed psychiatric hospital, Am Steinhof, she thinks it will take her away from the danger. Her estranged half-brother has arranged the job for her on the condition that she must take his son, Willi, there too. He insists it’s a place where Willi will be safe. And Hannah soon forms a close bond with the sweet, fragile child in her care.

Georgina Ballard has been disappointed in love more than a few times, a fact that she is uncomfortably aware of amid her sister’s wedding preparations. When her elderly aunt Rowena bids Gigi to accompany her on an art tour across Europe, Gigi hesitates but eventually resigns herself to the train journey alongside a group of aged art connoisseurs, if only to mollify her aunt.

Dora e Salvatore, entrambi originari del Sud, verso la fine degli anni Settanta s'incontrano a Padova, all'università. Condividono ideali e battaglie politiche, s'innamorano, stanno insieme, con tutte le contraddizioni della loro generazione. Si rivedono poi a distanza di vent'anni, in una Padova abbrutita dal miracolo del Nordest, dove i delusi si consolano giocando in borsa. Anche loro sono cambiati, ma la passione rinasce, diventa un'ossessione erotica, una dipendenza in mezzo ad altre dipendenze, che cercano di coprire il vuoto lasciato dalla fine dei sogni.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Vienna, 2035. AI agents now do what people once did. The question is no longer whether machines can think, but whether it makes any difference. Then a quantum biologist delivers the proof: inside the cells of our bodies lies something no technology can replicate. Consciousness is not an...

Vienna 1938: Austria’s leading couturier, Christina Lehmann, sits at the pinnacle of Viennese society. Her lover, the renowned painter Max Hauser, is at the height of his career. But Max harbors a secret, and it is only a matter of time before the Gestapo finds out. The situation takes a dramatic turn on Kristallnacht, when the pogrom against the Austrian Jews escalates and one of Christina’s Jewish seamstresses is brutally murdered. 

It was a simple errand. Collect a package. Save the world. ‘Part James Bond, part Philip Marlowe, and all hero’—Jeffrey Deaver But when Bill Kemp’s contact washes up dead on the frozen banks of the Danube, where the Iron Curtain falls across the map of Europe, he’s thrown into the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis. When the enigmatic, intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in, Lysander is...