Author: Rita MarchioriPublisher:
ISBN: 9788883281112
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 51
Book Description
Le più belle fiabe dell'Europa
Author: Rita MarchioriPublisher:
ISBN: 9788883281112
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 51
Book Description
Le più belle fiabe da tutto il mondo
Author: Rita MarchioriPublisher:
ISBN: 9788883281150
Category :
Languages : it
Pages : 51
Book Description
Le più belle fiabe da tutto il mondo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788804339663
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : it
Pages : 188
Book Description
L’Europa dei “Soliti Noti”
Author: Roberto MucciPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291921761
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Un po' guida, un po' diario, questo libro vuole offrire un servizio che possa dare spunti per scegliere mete interessanti da visitare e che dia un piccolo supporto a chi voglia intraprendere un viaggio. Cucina tradizionale, ricette locali, monumenti importanti e cose da non perdere, aneddoti e qualche fotografia: informazioni utili raccolte in semplici schede, facili e pronte da consultare.
Le più belle fiabe del mondo
Author: Le più belle fiabe
Author: Jacob Grimm˜Leœ piú belle fiabe italiane
Author: Guido Davico BoninoMaybe Esther
Author: Katja PetrowskajaPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062337580
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The International Bestseller Maybe Esther is the inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving debut memoir that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman’s family across twentieth-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors. In a series of short meditations, Petrowskaja delves into family legends, introducing a remarkable cast of characters: Judas Stern, her great-uncle, who shot a German diplomatic attaché in 1932 and was sentenced to death; her grandfather Semyon, who went underground with a new name during the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, forever splitting their branch of the family from the rest; her grandmother Rosa, who ran an orphanage in the Urals for deaf-mute Jewish children; her Ukrainian grandfather Vasily, who disappeared during World War II and reappeared without explanation forty-one years later—and settled back into the family as if he’d never been gone; and her great-grandmother, whose name may have been Esther, who alone remained in Kiev and was killed by the Nazis. How do you talk about what you can’t know, how do you bring the past to life? To answer this complex question, Petrowskaja visits the scenes of these events, reflecting on a fragmented and traumatized century and bringing to light family figures who threaten to drift into obscurity. A true search for the past reminiscent of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated, Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost, and Michael Chabon’s Moonglow, Maybe Esther is a poignant, haunting investigation of the effects of history on one family.
Reeds in the Wind
Author: Grazia DeleddaPublisher: Italica Pr
ISBN: 9780934977630
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt and retribution. This novel presents the story of the Pintor sisters - from a family of noble landowners now in decline - their nephew Giacinto, and their servant Efix, who is trying to make up for a mysterious sin committed many years before. Around, below, and inside them the raging Mediterranean storms, the jagged mountains, the murmuring forests, and the gushing springs form a Greek chorus of witness to the tragic drama of this unforgiving land. Deledda tells her story with her characteristic love of the natural landscape and fascination with the folk culture of the island, with details about the famous religious festivals held in mountain encampments and the lore of the "dark beings who populate the Sardinian night, the fairies who live in rocks and caves, and the sprites with seven red caps who bother sleep." Introduction by the Sardinian ethnographer, Dolores Turchi.
One Night, Markovitch
Author: Ayelet Gundar-GoshenPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770899774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin meets The Marrying of Chani Kaufman in this cinematic novel about the birth of Israel and the true story of the marriages of convenience that were arranged to smuggle Jewish women out of Nazi-occupied Europe. On the eve of World War II, a ship bearing twenty young men sets sail from the Palestine Territory toward Europe. Eagerly awaiting them on the other side are twenty young women, whom the men have never met. They have been set up in arranged marriages to enable Jewish women to escape Nazi Germany and enter Palestine without being turned back by the British. But when Yaacov Markovitch, a thoroughly unremarkable man, finds himself married to Bella Zeigerman, the most beautiful woman he has ever set eyes upon, things start to get complicated. Yaacov’s fake marriage is the beginning of a lifelong obsession, as he vows to make his beautiful bride, Bella, love him, despite her determination to break free. Their changing fortunes take them through war, upheaval, terrible secrets, tragedy, joy, and loss. Vital, funny, and tender, One Night, Markovitch brilliantly fuses personal lives and epic history in an unforgettable story of endless, hopeless longing and the desperate search for love.