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Comment vivre en étant la fille d’un bourreau nazi ? Comment construire une vie d’adulte fondée sur le mensonge ? John Boyne dresse un portrait de femme inoubliable, au crépuscule de sa vie, rongée par ses démons.

Mare Internum, año 75 a. C. Un barco mercante navega rumbo a la isla de Rodas. A bordo, Julio César acompañado sólo por su fiel Labieno. Obligado por sus enemigos a exiliarse de Roma, se dirige al encuentro con el maestro Apolonio para aprender oratoria y de este modo, a su regreso, iniciar una feroz pugna para ingresar en el Senado y enfrentarse allí al temido Cicerón.

In 1573, Countess Erzsébet Báthory gives birth to an illegitimate child. Secretly taken to a peasant family living in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the infant girl is raised as their own. Years later, a young woman called Boróka—ignorant of her true history—is sent to join the Countess’s household. Terrified of the Countess’s murderous reputation and the brutally cruel women who run the castle, Boróka struggles to find her place. Then plague breaches the castle’s walls, and a tentative bond unexpectedly forms between the girl and the Countess.

Stefan Zweig schrieb Castellio gegen Calvin in den Dreißigerjahren unter dem Eindruck des um sich greifenden Totalitarismus in Europa, denn das sechzehnte Jahrhundert erschien ihm wie ein Spiegel seiner eigenen Epoche: eine Ära der amoklaufenden Ideologen, der gewalttätigen Rechthaber, die für sich selbst, solange andere an der Macht sind, Toleranz einfordern, sie aber – kaum selbst zur Macht gelangt – allen anderen verweigern; die im Andersdenkenden nicht mehr den Menschen erkennen, nur den vermeintlichen Abgesandten des Bösen.

Le teste si possono tagliare o contare. Nel 1931 il regime fascista scelse entrambe le soluzioni e impose a tutti i professori universitari un giuramento di fedeltà al duce. Giurarono in 1238. Solo in dodici si rifiutarono. Questo è il racconto di uno di quei dodici, ed è liberamente ispirato alla figura di Mario Carrara, medico legale, uno dei primi a rifiutare il freddo censimento con cui Lombroso aveva insegnato a catalogare gli uomini e le anime.

Il primo è Javier, ripescato dalle acque del Rio della Plata con le mani legate dietro la schiena da due giri di fil di ferro. Il Turco e Mariano li ritrovano dentro una macchina scassata ai margini della Carretera Norte, con un buco nella nuca grosso come una noce. Poi tocca agli altri: Otilio, il trequarti alto e largo come un armadio; Mariano che ha le mani grandi come le pale di un mulino; Gustavo, sedici anni, leggero come una crosta di pane... Siamo in Argentina, nel 1978, e da due anni comandano i militari.

1979: Tettenhall College for Boys was a private school near Wolverhampton. Posh though it appeared, it was a school with a dark secret. Bullying and abuse were rife, and not just among the pupils. The headmaster was a sadistic Irishman who wheeled his slipper and cane with abandon. Our class of 11- and 12-year-old boys all lived in constant fear of his abuse. As a child, you are taught to trust and respect your parents, teachers, policemen, and priests. But no one ever tells you what to do when you know in your heart they can’t be trusted.

Mit Musik aus der Ersteinspielung von Händels Messiah-Urfassung, durch den Gutenberg-Kammerchor und dem Neumeyer Consort unter der Leitung von Felix Koch mit der Solistin und den Solisten Stefanie Schaefer, Fabian Kelly und Julian Dominique Clement. Diese Aufnahme verknüpft Teile des Oratoriums mit dem Text aus Stefan Zweigs "Sternstunden der Menschheit". Darin wird geschildert, wie Händel im Jahr 1741 während der Genesung nach einem Schlaganfall sein bekanntestes Werk wie in einem Rausch schuf.

The Eisenhower Chronicles dramatizes Ike's life, portraying his epic journey from unknown soldier to global hero as only a novel could. He is shown working with icons such as FDR, Winston Churchill, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and confronting challenges like D-Day, the Little Rock Crisis, and Sputnik.

De la mà de l'aclamat escriptor de Brooklyn, arriba una saga familiar èpica travessada per l'amor no correspost, la guerra i l'exili. Any 1933. Thomas Mann i la seva dona abandonen Alemanya anticipant l'horror del nazisme. Ell és l'escriptor més famós del seu temps, però quins secrets oculta la seva ànima turmentada? El Mag explica la història d'un home imperfecte i ambivalent. L'home que amb l'esclat de la Primera Guerra Mundial va situar-se al costat fosc de la història. El pare de sis fills que va amagar la seva homosexualitat.

John von Neumann was a titan of science. A Hungarian wunderkind who revolutionized every field he touched, his mathematical powers were so exceptional that Hans Bethe—a Nobel Prize-winning physicist—thought he might represent the next step in human evolution. After seeking the foundations of mathematics during his youth in Germany, von Neumann emigrated to the United States, where he became entangled in the power games of the Cold War; he designed the world's first programmable computer, invented game theory, pioneered AI and digital life, and helped create atomic bombs.

Lady Penelope Rich is one of the most beautiful and sought-after women in Elizabethan England. The daughter of the Earl of Essex, she is married to the wealthy Baron Robert Rich. Penelope's life is full of love and scandal. The inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet "Astrophel and Stella", she is involved in the Essex Rebellion. A complex and fascinating woman, her life is a story of love, betrayal, and tragedy.

Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler by John Banville brilliantly re-creates his life and his work, which laid the foundation of the universe even while he was being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time, it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world, rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.

Sergei Yesenin is a young poet, formed by childhood abandonment, set on becoming the most famous poet in Russia in a time of war, revolution and terror. A sensitive soul in a senseless time, searching for meaning through poetry, fame and passionate affairs with both women and men – until a meeting with the beautiful actress Zinaida Raikh changes everything.

Heinrich Mann stieß 1893 während seiner ersten Frankreichreise auf die Biografie des Königs Henri IV., ab 1933 schrieb er einen Roman-Zweiteiler über den Herrscher, der Frankreich von 1589 bis 1610 regierte, das von Bürgerkriegen zerrüttete Land wieder aufbaute und den französischen Protestanten freie Religionsausübung zusicherte.

Florenz, 1494: Lisa Gherardini und Giuliano aus der mächtigen Dynastie der Medici sind heimlich ein Liebespaar. Als die Medici aus der Stadt vertrieben werden, zwingt Lisas Vater die junge Frau zur Heirat mit dem viel älteren Seidenhändler Francesco del Giocondo. Doch ihr Herz hängt an ihrem Geliebten. Venedig, 1495: Leonardo da Vinci ist der berühmteste Künstler seiner Zeit. Als Giuliano de' Medici ihn bittet, Lisa zu porträtieren, um seiner Geliebten auf diese Weise Nachrichten zukommen zu lassen, geht Leonardo auf das riskante Spiel ein.

It’s 1875, and Chiang Mai, capital of Lanna, is a cultural crossroads of Buddhist monks and Christian missionaries, of spirit doctors and opium smokers, of seductive dancers and Western adventurers. A sharp rise in teak prices sets off a mad rush for logging concessions, and the forests of Lanna resound to the thwack of axes and the trumpeting of elephants as the mighty trees are felled. Enter Doctor Marion Cheek, a medical missionary and teak trader, whose exploits in this exotic realm make him a legend in his lifetime.

La vida de Francisco Pizarro, uno de los conquistadores más grandes de todos los tiempos, es un puro asombro. Hijo bastardo de un hidalgo de Trujillo, cuidador de puercos en su adolescencia, soldado de fortuna en los Tercios de Italia, acomete en la madurez de su vida la ingente empresa de conquistar el Imperio de los incas, el más extenso de toda la historia de la humanidad, puesto que se extendía desde el Ecuador hasta la Patagonia.

Eine Beerdigung führt 2016 den Rostocker Kay und seine Clique aus Schulzeiten wieder zusammen. Erinnerungen werden wach: an die unbeschwerte Jugend Anfang der 80er Jahre, aber auch an geplatzte Träume und die Enge des DDR-Systems. Die acht Freunde galten als unzertrennlich, vertrauen einander zutiefst – bis der erste aus der Clique wegen versuchter Republikflucht verhaftet wird.

Spendeva in abiti, libri e cavalli, era amico di artisti, consigliere di principi e confidente di dame. Scriveva lunghe lettere alla madre, dense di dettagli e pettegolezzi. Amava il gioco del potere e della politica ma ne rimase più volte scottato e deluso. Ebbe due grandi amori: Elisabetta Gonzaga, conosciuta da bambino e andata sposa a Guidubaldo da Montefeltro, e Ippolita Torelli, che finalmente sposò dopo una serie di fidanzamenti concordati per interesse o calcolo.