Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not ...
Amazon.co.uk ReviewIn this latest novel from the poet laureate of Gen X—who is himself now a dangerously mature 36—boy does indeed meet girl. The year is 1979, and the lovers get right down to business in a very Couplandian bit of plein air intercourse: "Karen and I deflowered each other atop Grouse Mountain, among the cedars beside a ski slope, atop crystal snow shards beneath penlight stars. It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon—lung-burning; mentholated and pure; hint of ozone, zinc, ski ...
Warning: Любое совпадение имен - просто случайность, хотя имена я не менял - это черновик
( "чистовик, в принципе, я писать не собираюсь). Текст, как всегда, не проверен на орфографию и
пунктуацию. Все события и факты приведенные ниже - реальны …
В каждом переулке — щебет птиц, затаенное ликование. А на площадях и бульварах рокочет, струится, шумит привольная, веселая жизнь прекрасного, беспечного города. Туристы всех национальностей разъезжают в небольших, медленно движущихся пролетках, безразлично-любопытным взглядом всматриваются в дома или подымаются по широким ступеням музеев....
?Qu? fue lo que realmente sucedi? esa noche en la fiesta donde se festej? al poeta Jorge Washington Noriega? En una caminata por el centro de la ciudad, ?ngel Leto y el Matem?tico reconstruyen esa fiesta en la que no estuvieron pero que conocen bien: circulan distintas versiones, todas enigm?ticas y un poco delirantes, que son revisadas y vueltas a contar y discutidas o rectificadas.
Gn?j jest histori? rodzinnego piek?a, opowiadan? przez dziecko, kt?re ma ju? to wszystko za sob?, potrafi zdoby? si? na dystans, ale z jakich? przyczyn dzieckiem by? nie przestaje.Narrator opisuje rodzinny rytua? przemocy; metodyczne, przypominaj?ce tresur? bicie. Analizuje ?r?d?o rodzinnych tragedii; sytuacj?, w kt?rej metodyka nahaja spotyka si? z konsekwentnym buntem.Jest Gn?j zarazem widzian? oczami dziecka barwn? panoram? wsp??czesnego ?l?ska, pr?b? zatrzymania jego niepowtarzalnego kolorytu, ukazania, na przyk?adzie tradycyjnej ?l?skiej rodziny, konfrontacji ?l?ska robotniczego, chacharskiego z tym inteligenckim, arystokratycznym
Powie?? zyska?a ju? w Polsce znakomite recenzje, w plebiscycie SFINKSa znalaz?a si? na drugim miejscu w kategorii "najlepsza powie?? zagraniczna 2004 roku".?wie?a, oryginalna powie?? science fiction, rozpoczynaj?ca si? w stylu mrocznej fantasy, a ko?cz?ca jak klasyczna space opera.W odleg?ej galaktyce, na wszystkich zasiedlonych ?wiatach ca?a gospodarka podporz?dkowana jest tkaniu wielkich gobelin?w z… w?os?w kobiet. Gobeliny s? wywo?one milionami przez statki kosmiczne cesarza.Tymczasem pewnego razu przybywa na planet? zwiadowca nowego rz?du, z informacj?, ?e imperator zosta? obalony. Tymczasem gobeliny nadal s? wysy?ane w nieznanym kierunku. Co si? kryje za t? tajemnic??
1830. La Com?die humaine – ?tudes de m?urs. Premier livre, Sc?nes de la vie priv?e – Tome II. Deuxi?me volume de l’?dition Furne 1842Lors d'une soir?e, l'avou? Derville surprend une conversation entre la vicomtesse de Grandlieu et sa fille ?prise d'un pr?tendant sans fortune. Afin de pr?venir celle-ci d'une mauvaise aventure, l'avou? Derville raconte une histoire de jeunesse o?, simple clerc, il fut t?moin d'une transaction entre Gobseck, usurier hors du commun, et la comtesse de Restaud… Jean-Esther Gobseck est un virtuose dans son domaine, il pratique l'usure comme on pratique un art. Dans ce portrait d'un de ses plus puissants personnages, Balzac ?crit, l?, son premier chef d'oeuvre.
A wry literary masterpiece, God Hates Us All is a coming-of-age tale for the apathetic generation. Hank Moody's self-loathing yet darkly like able narrator is a college drop-out-turned-accidental-drug-dealer enveloped in a world of contradictions. His boss — a bong-hitting, dread locked Pontiff figure — runs a remarkably organized and ingenious illegal trade patronized by, among others, a sweater-set-wearing Upper East Sider, a Wall Street hotshot, and a wannabe rock star with a hard-to-resist model girlfriend. The lonely narrator yearns for more than the tenuous but intimate thread he shares with his clients. To escape his mother's desperate expectations, his father's endless ...
The critically acclaimed show, , is one of Showtime’s highest rated programs. Averaging about two million viewers an episode, it is the most successfully rated freshman series in Showtime history. A Golden Globe nominee for Best Television Series (Comedy or Musical), features an electric, likeable cast, led by actor David Duchovny, who won a Golden Globe for his performance playing Hank Moody. is the novel written by Duchovny’s character, Hank Moody, which in the show is turned into a Hollywood film entitled . Timed to coincide with the premiere of the Season 3 of the hit series, this will allow fans an extra, backstage look at the concept of the show not available through episodes.
When Jo's husband ditches her, and Dora ditches her fiance, both women find themselves living on a barge on the Thames where they must learn to navigate their way around new relationships. They quickly learn the value of friendship and a fresh start.
Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro have been hired to find a six-year-old girl who vanished from her home without a trace. Despite enormous public attention, extensive news coverage, and dogged police work, the investigation has gone nowhere. But it's a case rife with sinister circumstances: a strangely indifferent mother, a pedophile couple, a bizarre subculture of homeless parents, and a shadowy police unit with a covert agenda and no qualms about enforcing it.
From Publishers WeeklyIt is temping at first but unwise to assume Candace Shapiro is yet another Bridget Jones. Feisty, funny and less self-hating than her predecessor, Cannie is a 28-year-old Philadelphia Examiner reporter preoccupied with her weight and men, but able to see the humor in even the most unpleasant of life's broadsides. Even she is floored, however, when she reads "Good in Bed," a new women's magazine column penned by her ex-boyfriend, pothead grad student Bruce Guberman. Three months earlier, Cannie suggested they take a break apparently, Bruce thought they were through and set about making ...
Novela que retrata la vida de la reina Victoria Eugenia y aporta nuevos datos acerca de la vida de esta soberana, de la que se cumplen 40 a?os de su muerte.
In Googled, esteemed media writer and critic Ken Auletta uses the story of Google’s rise to explore the inner workings of the company and the future of the media at large. Although Google has often been secretive, this book is based on the most extensive cooperation ever granted a journalist, including access to closed-door meetings and interviews with founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, CEO Eric Schmidt, and some 150 present and former employees.Inside the Google campus, Auletta finds a culture driven by brilliant engineers in which even the most basic ways of doing things are questioned. ...
" Le safari, commenc? dans la joie et le plaisir, se transforma en une gigantesque partie de cache-cache, passionnante, irritante, puis insupportable.Insidieusement, la r?solution de tuer M'Bumba l'?l?phant s'installa. C'?tait lui ou nous. Alors s'amor?a une lente descente vers l'horreur et l'irr?el: la nature explosait d'une beaut? violente, la nuit se faisait cataclysme, des milliers de crocodiles devenus d?ments massacraient les hommes. Nous ?tions partis pour la mort. perdus au milieu de quelque chose que je ne comprenais pas, qui n'existait pas, quelque chose qui nous tuait les uns apr?s les autres ".Fi?vres, roman fort, envo?tant, sensuel, nous confirme le grand talent de conteur de Cizia Zyk?, r?v?l? dans sa trilogie autobiographique: Oro, Sahara et Parodie.
Die ?gyptische ?rztin und Schriftstellerin Nawal El Saadawi, in der BRD bekannt durch die Erz?hlung " betrachtet " als ihren wichtigsten Roman. Die Frauen, von denen sie erz?hlt und auf deren Seite sie steht, sind in dem Netz klassenspezifischer Ausbeutung und Unterdr?ckung genau so gefangen wie in patriarchalischen Familienstrukturen. In einer eindrucksvollen und schn?rkellosen Erz?hlweise beschreibt sie das Leben in einem kleinen Dorf am Nilufer, zeigt die Mechanismen von Macht und Abh?ngigkeit, die Verkn?pfung staatlicher und religi?ser Macht im Islam genauso wie die Solidarit?t der Frauen untereinander, wie die Sehnsucht der ...
The sequel to "Porterhouse Blue". With a new master, Scullion, now in charge and doubts still surrounding the death of the late Master, more unspeakably awful goings-on are inevitable at Cambridge's most disreputable college.
