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Author: Ingo Schulze Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307701441 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees to escape, the Berlin Wall is on the cusp of falling, and, yet, seemingly sheltered from this onrushing new world in their idyllic East German home are Adam, a tailor and dressmaker who enjoys a life of dressing (and undressing) his appreciative clientele, and Evelyn, Adam’s restless girlfriend. Having just unexpectedly quit her job as a waitress, Evelyn returns home one day to find Adam sleeping with one of his customers. Calmly, but quickly, Evelyn packs her belongings and runs off to Hungary on a vacation she had originally planned to take with Adam. Accompanying Evelyn on her journey is her friend Simone and Michael, Simone’s West German cousin. In hot pursuit, however, to everyone’s surprise or dismay, is Adam. Following the group in his family’s rickety 1961 Communist-made automobile, Adam chases after Evelyn, banishing himself from his Garden of Eden as she pursues her very own idea of heaven. As Adam and Evelyn are swept out on a Western tide of new freedoms—helping refugees and helping themselves to impetuous trysts with others along the way—they find themselves forced to adjust to life in a world forever changed. Paradise regained? Perhaps not. Upending our expectations from the start, Adam and Evelyn is a deceptively simple love story that will enthrall longtime readers and those new to the delights of Ingo Schulze’s stories alike.
Author: Ingo Schulze Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307701441 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees to escape, the Berlin Wall is on the cusp of falling, and, yet, seemingly sheltered from this onrushing new world in their idyllic East German home are Adam, a tailor and dressmaker who enjoys a life of dressing (and undressing) his appreciative clientele, and Evelyn, Adam’s restless girlfriend. Having just unexpectedly quit her job as a waitress, Evelyn returns home one day to find Adam sleeping with one of his customers. Calmly, but quickly, Evelyn packs her belongings and runs off to Hungary on a vacation she had originally planned to take with Adam. Accompanying Evelyn on her journey is her friend Simone and Michael, Simone’s West German cousin. In hot pursuit, however, to everyone’s surprise or dismay, is Adam. Following the group in his family’s rickety 1961 Communist-made automobile, Adam chases after Evelyn, banishing himself from his Garden of Eden as she pursues her very own idea of heaven. As Adam and Evelyn are swept out on a Western tide of new freedoms—helping refugees and helping themselves to impetuous trysts with others along the way—they find themselves forced to adjust to life in a world forever changed. Paradise regained? Perhaps not. Upending our expectations from the start, Adam and Evelyn is a deceptively simple love story that will enthrall longtime readers and those new to the delights of Ingo Schulze’s stories alike.
Author: Pat Ballard Publisher: Pearlsong Press ISBN: 1597190829 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 155
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Evelyn Carmichael arrived in Nashville, Tennessee with hopes of starting a new life for her and her four-year-old daughter far, far away from her abusive ex-husband. She was absolutely sure she could make a life for them without the help of any man on Earth. And then she met Pastor Adam Singletary. From his vantage point on the stage, Adam Singletary’s body went very still as he watched the woman slip quietly, otherwise unnoticed, into the back of the church and take a seat on the last row. She set her purse on the floor and then looked up directly into his eyes. An arc of unseen electricity connected them, jolting his body to the center of his being. She’s finally here, he thought.
Author: Theresa Sanders Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442200634 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 258
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You don't have to be religious for the story of Adam and Eve to have touched your life. From Voldemort's snake mascot in Harry Potter novels to the 'forbidden fruit' apple that puts Snow White to sleep in fairy tales, we are inundated with references to the Garden of Eden in popular culture from an early age. On a deeper level, the story has been used as justification for conflicting viewpoints on issues ranging from nudity to marriage to slavery. Approaching Eden digs much deeper than merely cataloguing entertaining Adam and Eve references in popular culture by exploring how these references are used and how they shape society. Theresa Sanders provides essential historical background from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim perspectives to show the relevance and prominence of Adam and Eve's story in life today.
Author: Evelyn Waugh Publisher: Alien Ebooks ISBN: 1667623796 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”
Author: Neil LaBute Publisher: Faber & Faber Plays ISBN: 0571212468 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 145
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How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath. The world premi re of The Shape of Things was presented at the Almeida, London, in May 2001.
Author: Rhonda Riley Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062099469 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
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The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope is an unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as breathtaking and wondrous as The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. During WWII, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier on their property. She rescues him, and it quickly becomes clear he is not a man…and not one of us. The rescued body recovers at an unnatural speed, and just as fast, Evelyn and Adam fall deeply in love. In The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, Rhonda Riley reveals the exhilarating, terrifying mystery inherent in all relationships: No matter how deeply we love someone, and no matter how much we will sacrifice for them, we can only know them so well…
Author: Ingo Schulze Publisher: ISBN: Category : Berlin (Germany) Languages : de Pages : 328
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Die Frauen lieben Adam, weil er ihnen Kleider schneidert, die sie schön und begehrenswert machen. Adam liebt schöne Frauen. Wenn sie erst seine Kleider tragen, begehrt er sie alle, und abgesehen davon liebt er Evelyn. Die ertappt ihn eines heißen Augusttages 1989 in flagranti mit einem seiner Geschöpfe. Statt mit Adam fährt Evelyn gemeinsam mit einer Freundin und deren Westcousin nach Ungarn an den Balaton. Adam setzt sich mit seinem alten Wartburg dem roten Passat auf die Spur. Für Evelyn würde er bis ans Ende der Welt fahren - und vielleicht muss er das auch, denn Ungarn will die Grenze gen Westen öffnen. Plötzlich ist die verbotene Frucht greifbar, und alle müssen sich entscheiden. In der Ausnahmesituation jenes Spätsommers 1989, dem Schwebezustand plötzlicher Wahlfreiheit, entdeckt Ingo Schulze die menschliche Urgeschichte von Verbot und Verlockung, Liebe und Erkenntnis und nicht zuletzt der Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies. Doch wo ist das zu finden? In der Verheißung des Westens, der Ungebundenheit eines endlosen Feriensommers am Plattensee oder doch im vertrauten Amtsstubenduft einer frisch geöffneten Brotkapsel und dem eigenen Garten? Im Spiel mit dem biblischen Mythos von Adam und Eva gelingt Ingo Schulze eine grandiose Tragikomödie. Mit seinem ironisch gebrochenen Begriff vom Sündenfall findet er eine Chiffre für den Eintritt in unsere heutige Welt.
Author: Ingo Schulze
Author: Ingo Schulze
Author: Pat Ballard
Author: Ingo Schulze
Author: Ingo Schulze
Author: Theresa Sanders
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Author: Ingo Schulze
Author: Neil LaBute
Author: Rhonda Riley
Author: Ingo Schulze