De unieke literaire stem van deze auteur is niet het enige aspect van diens schrijven dat lezers boeit. Bekend om het verkennen van diepgaande thema's door een onderscheidende verhalende stijl, nodigt hun werk uit tot diepe contemplatie. De auteur hanteert meesterlijk specifieke literaire technieken om meeslepende ervaringen te creëren, waardoor hun verhalen lang na de laatste pagina blijven nazinderen. Hun toewijding aan de kunst van het vertellen is duidelijk zichtbaar in elke zorgvuldig geconstrueerde zin.
Centered on the themes of family and faith, this touching narrative empowers children by instilling hope and the belief that they can effect change in the world. It emphasizes the strength derived from familial bonds and encourages young readers to recognize their potential to make a difference.
Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.
A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the acclaimed author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II—a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler’s horrors march closer and closer to their doors" (New York). “Stunning.... A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, as Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.
V této knížce s nádhernými realistickými ilustracemi najdete neobyčejná zvířata ze všech koutů světa. Dozvíte se, která z nich jsou největší či nejmenší, která nejdéle žijí, nejrychleji se pohybují a jsou nejnebezpečnější, i spoustu dalších rekordů a zajímavostí.
