Category: Coming Of Age Fiction

"... wenn guy lange genug zwischen diesen Gipfeln herumläuft, fällt alles adverse von einem ab. guy muss nur fest stehen und die Nase mutig in den Wind halten." Bevor Hannelore Bahl ihrer Bergbekanntschaft Marga zustimmen kann, muss sie weit gehen.

Ihr Weg führt sie ganz nach unten, und, nach dem Tod der Mutter, zu Fuß über die Alpen. Es ist keine Kleinigkeit, a hundred and forty kg Körpergewicht über Geröllhalden und schmale Pfade zu manövrieren. Besonders, wenn guy gerade frisch genesen und so unsportlich wie Hannelore ist

Im Gepäck trägt sie zusätzliche Lasten: ihre nicht alltägliche Kindheit, die Erinnerung an eine aussichtslose Liebe und ihr Gewissen, das sie nicht zur Ruhe kommen lässt. Doch used to be Strafe und Sühne sein soll, wird zu einer überraschenden Wendung ihres Schicksals.

Anglana has been a state shattered because the tyrant Sareck fixed a winning coup 15 years in the past. His reign intended the loss of life in their cherished king, the disappearance of his in basic terms inheritor, the kid princess, and an finish to the magick that flowed in the course of the royal line.

In a tiny village, a tender lady named Liirya has consistently been capable of consider the magick all people else claims is dormant because the loss of life of the king. via this magick, she discovers who she relatively is and embarks on a trip to save lots of the dominion. yet no longer all is because it turns out, and neither associates nor enemies are continuously who they declare to be.

Andi Powell thinks approximately dying some distance too usually for an eleven-year-old woman. After wasting either mom and dad in a automobile coincidence and being raised through a grandmother passionate about loss of life, Andi is being affected by an strange quest for a woman her age-- to figure out even if there's lifestyles after death.

It is 1966, and Castalia, Indiana, like so much towns of that point, is grappling with social and cultural swap. in the meantime, rumors have lengthy swirled round Castalia's Lincoln ordinary institution. Over its lengthy background, the college has produced 6th graders who declare to have obvious Lincoln's ghost within the school's auditorium. whilst Andi prays on her lifeless mother's rosary to be the subsequent to come across Lincoln's ghost so as to be certain the lifestyles of an after-life, a posh chain of occasions is determined into movement, together with the looks of John Malone, a brand new boy in class who harbors an explosive mystery, and mysterious moaning emanating from at the back of the darkish level after university. whereas Andi desperately seeks solutions to life's such a lot tricky questions, an not going new buddy emerges--a mystical bait store proprietor named Ezra.

Searching for Lincoln's Ghost is a narrative approximately coming-of-age throughout the tumultuous Sixties, exploring such aggravating themes as own isolation, worry and melancholy, bullying, social and racial intolerance. Peppered with Lincoln folklore and background, it's a undying story of the ability of affection, empathy, and the way the activities of 1 individual can profoundly impression another.

"Phantasmagorical – that's the purely notice i do know to explain the tale I’m approximately to inform you. in reality, if the notice 'phantasmagorical' didn’t exist, i might have needed to invent it to explain what occurred to me and my buddy Benji Ambrose."

Growing up in Beaufort within the color of many timber, Daniel Dubow is a self-described pudgy nerd with a runny nostril and freckles. He and his ally Benji Ambrose spend their time perfecting magic tips and brooding about approximately existence and rambling round the historical urban. in the future whereas communing with a tremendous hackberry tree through the Tabernacle Church, the bumpy-barked tree publicizes, "Now the adventure begins," and arms them a key with directions that sends them forth to experience. They meet the ghost of Robert Smalls, commune with extra timber, foil kidnappers, and check out to make feel of the complex global of adults.

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endure along with her, She's misplaced Her brain is a suite of news written at diverse occasions all year long. every one explores the mental progress and harm that incorporates switch. From transgender ladies to jealous ex-girlfriends to angels, Prusko brings her brutally sincere voice as she indulges into what it skill to be a girl, have intercourse with somebody you do not love as opposed to an individual you do, and love unconditionally.

There's not anything like a dishonest boyfriend to make you reassess your existence.

And for Paris Tehrani, an impromptu circulation to ny is the ideal reset button. made up our minds to prevent crawling again to her dead-end existence in California, Paris applies for an assistant place to a hedge fund CEO. certain, she's no longer totally certified for the placement, yet who's nowadays? faux it until eventually you are making it, right?

Wrong. All too fast, Paris realizes her "job" is to cater to the whims of a maniacal dictator motive on ruining her day and doubtless even her lifestyles. among ducking her new employer's random tantrums, arranging his unique leisure, balancing workplace politics, and nurturing a brand new dating, Paris cannot almost certainly continue her head above water. but if she discovers incriminating proof opposed to the CEO, details that may take her down within the approach, she unearths herself confronted with a choice: sacrifice her lifestyles and dignity for the job$#151;or her likelihood at a true destiny.

pink apartment erzählt in einer Zeit-Reise ohne Chronologie Geschichten der sechziger Jahre bis in die achtziger Jahre, die oft in ganz tiefer Verbindung zur Musik und Liebe zum Leben stehen und ganz bestimmt hätten manche dieser subjektiv wahren Geschichten ohne den Blues einen anderen, als den erlebten und erzählten Verlauf genommen ... nicht nur in Oldenburg.

»Blues beschützt und behütet die Sehnsucht als etwas sehr Kostbares, bietet ihr so viel Gefühl und Platz, macht sie so stark, daß einfach kein Schlupfloch für die Verzweiflung übrig bleibt.«

Op 11 November 2013 kwam een gewelddadig einde aan het leven van de zeer getalenteerde muzikant en schrijver Ali Eskandarian. Een voormalig lid van de muziekgroep unfastened Keys kwam 's nachts naar het huis waar Ali samen met bevriende Iraanse muzikanten en kunstenaars woonde en schoot Ali en twee leden van de punkrockband Yellow canine dood. Kunstenaar Sot, van het duo Icy and Sot, raakte gewond maar overleefde de aanslag.

Golden Years is de roman die Ali in september 2012 naar de uitgever van Lebowski stuurde. Hij beschrijft het leven van jonge immigranten in Amerika die met elkaar samenwonen in een fabriekspand in Brooklyn: op ontroerende en vaak humoristische wijze verwoordt hij hun honger naar vrijheid en expressie, als kunstenaar en als mens.

Ali's leven is een dans op de vulkaan. Met zijn vrienden deelt hij lief, leed, medicinal drugs en vrouwen, en maken ze muziek. Ali, die al langer in Amerika woont en wat ouder is dan de andere jongens -de roman bevat ook herinneringen aan de bombardementen van Teheran tijdens de Irak-Iranoorlog -, weet dat een burgerlijk bestaan er voor hem niet inzit. Om een stem te geven aan zijn verloren generatie begint hij te schrijven aan Golden Years, over eenzaamheid in de metropool, de verweesdheid van jonge immigranten en het leven op de rand...

Met een nawoord van Oscar van Gelderen.

a tender, entitled Barbadian lady believes she has all of it until eventually she meets a tender guy from a distinct international. He indicates her differently of existence, shakes up her perceptions, and in spite of everything, leaves her thoroughly shattered.

Aruni returns to the island of her beginning, Sri Lanka, aching to find the reality approximately her mom, the wild and sensual seashore lady, Mala. satisfied for the 1st time in her lifestyles, Aruni believes she has came upon where to which she belongs. yet because the tragic tale of Mala’s existence unfolds, Aruni reveals that belonging makes its personal relentless claims …

‘Island quest, a effective dream … Lokugé’s prose is languid, it’s virtually sluggish movement. The impression is of swimming via deep, darkish, clogged water. Her professional prose is soaking wet with imagery, the temper is sizzling and sea-salty, faintly threatening. We glide with Aruni day after seeming unending day as she delves more and more, scrap by way of tantalising scrap, into the reality. The strong finishing, at evening, at the seashore, amid sea-tossed coconuts with kernels “as delicate as a woman’s sex”is no much less surprising for its inevitability.’– Susan Kurosawa