A captivating new novel from the internationally bestselling author whose "plucky heroines build bonds with the reader....Sass, vulnerability, and humor" (People). Hope, Sam, Virginia, and Nicole are four women trying to cope with the vicissitudes of life. Struggling to fit her family in with the hectic demands of her career has made Hope feel like a stranger to her husband, Matt, and their two small children. Her unconventional sister Sam has big plans to be the first female music mogul, running her own record label exactly the way she pleases. Virginia and her husband Bill can't wait to build their retirement dream home and spend more time with their granddaughter. Nicole is the wild child, tossing her fate to the winds as she sings and parties her way through life. Now a day of reckoning is coming, as each of them confronts a shattering crisis that will change them in ways they couldn't have predicted. But can they survive the fallout? With spirit and passion, Cathy Kelly gives us a lively, bighearted novel about friends, sisters, families, love, and all the challenges, joys, and what-ifs of life.
Abgesehen von seinem kleinen Sohn gibt es wenig Licht im Leben von Miles Ryan. Seine Frau ist bei einem Verkehrsunfall ums Leben gekommen, seit zwei Jahren nun ist er auf der Suche nach dem unfallfluchtigen Fahrer. Doch denjenigen zu finden, der die Schuld an seinem tiefen Schmerz tragt, scheint aussichtslos - ebenso wie die Hoffnung auf ein neues Gluck.Doch das Schicksal belehrt Miles eines Besseren, als er sich Hals uber Kopf in Sarah verliebt. Mit ihr erlebt er eine wunderschone Zeit - bis eines Tages eine schreckliche Wahrheit ans Licht kommt...
Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen die wechselseitige Wahrnehmung und Rezeption Deutschlands und Lateinamerikas. Die Autorinnen und Autoren gehen der Frage nach, wie diese sich in den historischen, politischen und kulturellen Beziehungen niedergeschlagen haben. Wahrend der Groteil der bis heute publizierten Arbeiten zu Rezeptions und Perzeptionsprozessen sich auf die Perspektive einzelner wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen beschrankt, vereint dieser Sammelband Beitrage aus unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen und Forschungsansatzen.
SMS von ANKE ENGELKE: "Hurra VOLLIDIOT präsentiert das außergewöhnliche beobachtungs- und beschreibungstalent von einem der gerne frauen mehr liebt als alles andere, fast schon mehr als das eigene glück" Herrlich! Peinlich! Romantisch! Filmreif! Der lustigste Roman seit Erfindung des Gurkenrennens ...
Vienna is an acclaimed saga covering three generations of a partly-Jewish Viennese family. Although it progresses from the female narrator''s father''s birth to the end of his life, there is constant movement backwards and forwards in time, while each chapter tends to concentrate on one particular family member or group. Grandfather married out, to the sandy-haired beauty Frieda, and his sister Gustl married nice-but-dim ''Dolly'' Konigsberger, the non-Jewish bank manager beloved for his malapropisms. Aunt Gustl''s only son Nandl is in trouble with the police yet again for fraud. In wartime the narrator''s father settles in England - near Luton, in fact - with his foster parents Tom and Annie, and develops a talent for football. His brother, only just young enough to qualify for the Kindertransport on which they arrived, is interned on the Isle of Man but later joins the army and fights in Burma. Their sister, beautiful blonde Katzi, will go to Canada and die of TB aged 21. After 1945, the action returns to post-war Vienna. The footballing father will become an Austrian international - the uncle goes into the import/export business and does well until he wastes his talents. Character-led rather than plot-driven, Vienna is a panoramic and sparkling novel of family life in Austria and England. There are delightful vignettes of Vienna with its coffee-houses, bridge parties and tennis clubs; and vivid descriptions of wartime and post-war England. Vienna is arguably the most entertaining German novel since Das Parfum.
