Tinke Davids Libros

Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his German friend, Kressmann Taylor's classic novel is a haunting tale of a society poisoned by Nazism.First published in 1938, Address Unknown met with immediate success in English but was banned in Europe by the Nazis. Tragically prescient about what was to come, it was one of the earliest works of fiction to warn against the growing dangers of fascism and antisemitism in Europe. It became an international bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages.A novel of enduring impact with a memorable sting in its tail, Address Unknown stands as a powerful reminder of the dangers posed by the rhetoric of intolerance.

Van de Rio Negro naar Buenos Aires - Charles Darwin Goedenavond, mrs. Thys - Jan Brokken Drie maanden in de West - W. Wijnaendts Francken-Syserinck Paaseiland: voorbij de branding van Rapa Nui - Paul Theroux Kongo - Redmond O'Hanlon Filfla - Boudewijn Büch Het dorp van Ratu Dinges - Johnny Frisbie Bot Pippel - Linda Polman De Kakaanse seismograaf - Benno Barnard

Günter Wallraff elaboró un trabajo periodístico arriesgado y sacrificado. Posiblemente la obra más especial del autor alemán. Günter Wallraff adquirió una nueva identidad durante dos años de su vida, convirtiéndose así en Alí el turco. Como Alí el Turco, Günter Wallraff realizó un reportaje sobre las penosas condiciones laborales que los inmigrantes turcos debían soportar para sobrevivir en la Alemania de esos años. Trabajos de limpieza en centrales nucleares sin protección alguna, en una industria farmaceútica como cobaya humana, como peón de construcción sin papelesâ?¦ â??Cabeza de turcoâ?? se convierte en un mazazo de realidad para el lector. A lo largo de la obra encontramos nuevos personajes reales, que no son inventados, sino que existen de verdad, que padecen una vida de explotación y miseria. El carácter personal que tiene la obra impacta al lector. Günter Wallraff no nos cuenta una historia ficticia, nos sumerge en una realidad dramática. La acumulación despiadada de experiencias humanas truncadas por el despotismo arrastra al lector a una situación de compromiso con la obra y sus personajes.

Un solo suceso puede cambiar el destino de una familia para siempre... La autora de Flotando en la palma de la mano de mi madre vuelve a seducir con una novela conmovedora y poderosa, que abarca varias generaciones en la vida de una familia italonorteamericana, desde la feliz inocencia de los años cincuenta hasta la actualidad. El mundo tranquilo y seguro de Anthony -sus padres y sus inocentes riñas, los paseos en el Studebaker - se ve bruscamente interrumpido cuando se instalan en casa tía Floria y sus dos hijas gemelas. Las discusiones y las tensiones familiares van en aumento hasta que, una tarde, se produce algo terrible que lo cambia todo, un momento que cada uno arrastrará durante el resto de sus vidas. Úrsula Hegi explora en esta novela el lado más oscuro de la infancia, la búsqueda de las raíces, los sueños no cumplidos, los deseos desterrados, los remordimientos... en una narración vigorosa y sorprendente.

Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost.

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read, la obra de Orwell, escrita en 1948, se ha transformado de ciencia ficción a un manifiesto de la realidad. En 1984, Londres es una ciudad sombría donde la Policía del Pensamiento controla la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith, un peón en este sistema opresivo, tiene la tarea de reescribir la historia para ajustarla a la versión oficial del Partido. Sin embargo, su vida da un giro cuando recibe un mensaje de amor de una mujer que apenas conoce, lo que lo lleva a cuestionar la verdad del sistema que los gobierna. Esta obra es un poderoso relato de rebelión y opresión, donde conceptos como "la guerra es paz" y "la libertad es esclavitud" resuenan en la conciencia colectiva. La historia de Winston y su búsqueda de la verdad se convierte en un acto de desafío frente a un régimen totalitario que vigila cada aspecto de la vida. A través de la lucha por la libertad y la autenticidad, se exploran temas de control, identidad y la naturaleza de la realidad en un mundo distópico.

Upon its publication in Germany in 1983, this author's book stirred both critical acclaim and consternation, attracting a wide readership. He finds cynicism the dominant mode in contemporary culture, in personal and institutional settings; his book is both a history of the impulse and an investigation of its role today, among those whose earlier hopes for social change have crumbled and faded away.

Een man trekt in 1838 naar New Hampshire met een zestienjarig meisje dat hij met pokeren won.

Waarom zou een Israëlische jood zich voordoen als een Arabier? Het was volgens mij (de schrijver) de beste manier om in de huid van een Palestijn te kruipen.` Joram Binoer stak zijn licht op in de Gazastrook, in de vluchtelingenkampen op de Westoever en in het centrum van Tel Aviv. Een gewaagde onderneming.

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Over the course of the novel he suffers a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war itself.

From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.

In dit boeiende boek laat de auteur het jaar 1688 wereldwijd herleven. In zeven delen, onderverdeeld in diverse hoofdstukken, worden de belangrijkste gebeurtenissen en ontwikkelingen beschreven die in en buiten Europa plaatsvonden. Dank zij de zeevaart, enkele missionarissen en avonturiers namen wij kennis van andere werelddelen en volken met hun cultuur en religie. Deze ontdekkingen hadden positieve en negatieve gevolgen, zoals handelscontacten, overheersing en de slavenhandel. Verwikkelingen aan Europese en Aziatische hoven drukken hun stempel op de tijd. De tweede helft van de zeventiende eeuw was ook de tijd van grote onderzoekers, wetenschappers en literatoren. De auteur kon putten uit authentiek bronnenmateriaal. Met enkele illustraties in zwart/wit. Een uitgebreid overzicht van geraadpleegde bronnen en verdere literatuur biedt de in geschiedenis geïnteresseerde lezer voldoende mogelijkheid om zijn kennis uit te breiden. Het boek eindigt met een personen- en zakenregister. (Biblion recensie, P. Brugmans-Peters) (first published January 3rd 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company)

Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.

Describes the author's travels by train in every province of the People's Republic of China.

Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skillfully in order to meet our parents’ expectations and win their ”love.” Alice Miller writes, ”When I used the word ’gifted’ in the title, I had in mind neither children who receive high grades in school nor children talented in a special way. I simply meant all of us who have survived an abusive childhood thanks to an ability to adapt even to unspeakable cruelty by becoming numb… Without this ’gift’ offered us by nature, we would not have survived.” But merely surviving is not enough. The Drama of the Gifted Child helps us to reclaim our life by discovering our own crucial needs and our own truth.

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non- fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.

Shrouding themselves & their aims in secrecy, the leaders of the Taliban movement control Afghanistan with an inflexible, crushing fundamentalism. The most extreme & radical of all Islamic organizations, the Taliban inspires fascination, controversy & fear in both the Muslim world & the West. Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban into focus in this enormously interesting & revealing book. It's the only authoritative account of the Taliban & modern day Afghanistan available to English language readers. Based on his experiences as a journalist covering the civil war in Afghanistan for 20 years, traveling & living with the Taliban, & interviewing most of the Taliban leaders since their emergence to power in 1994, Rashid offers unparalleled 1sthand information. He explains how the growth of Taliban power has already created severe instability in Russia, Iran, Pakistan & five Central Asian republics. He describes the Taliban's role as a major player in a new Great Game: a competition among Western countries & companies to build oil & gas pipelines from Central Asia to Western & Asian markets. The author also discusses the controversial changes in American attitudes toward the Taliban--from early support to recent bombings of Osama Bin Laden's hideaway & other Taliban-protected terrorist bases--& how they've influenced the stability of the region.

At the gateway to the Mediterranean lie the two Pillars of Hercules: Gibraltar and Ceuta, in Morocco. Paul Theroux decided to travel from one to the other taking the long way round. He travels by a dilapidated taxi, smoke-filled bus, bicycle and even a cruise-liner. This eventful tour aims to evoke the essence of Mediterranean life.

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered – thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to ‘the end of the line’.

One of the world's premier travel writers launches his most exotic and tantalizing adventure yet, as he kayaks the shimmering Pacific, exploring the islands, and taking up residence to discover the secrets of these happy isles.

Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop; and although Dionisio manages to escape the hit-men sent to get him, he soon realizes that others are more vulnerable, and his love for them leads him to take a colossal revenge. "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord is the second novel in a trilogy set in South America. It won a Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1992.

En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una isla griega invadida por los alemanes se desarrollará una inolvidable historia de amor entre una lugarela y un oficial italiano. Una pequeña historia de amor que encarna todas las historias de amor del mundo...

Verslag van een reis van vier maanden over de Orinoco naar het hart van het Amazonegebied.

Presents an account of the author's journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. This work provides a study of societies - British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica - examining their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.

Era hija de Príamo y Hécuba. Apolo se enamoró de ella y le concedió el don de la profecía pero, al ser rechazado, se vengó disponiendo que nunca fuera creída. Casandra anunció la caída de Troya, pero los troyanos se burlaron de ella. Sobre este mito, la autora construye una apasionante analogía entre los hechos narrados en la Ilíada y el tenso periodo de guerra fría del siglo XX. La profetisa no desea ser simplemente la portavoz de Dios, anhela ante todo el conocimiento y la autoconciencia. Desde la cesta de mimbre en la que está encerrada (metáfora de la situación de la mujer en la sociedad patriarcal), vaticina la ruina, es decir, la destrucción de la cultura.

An Account of a Journey Made In 1983 to the Mountains of Batu Tiban with James Fenton "Ye Gods, old man--don't do it!" you're bound to shriek on page 1 of this hilarious travelogue, on which the author lists the hazards that may befall him--vipers, cholera, crocs, ticks, tuberculosis, malaria, rabies, and 1,700 types of parasitic worms among them. After all, portly, over-the-hill London Times literary reviewer Redmond O'Hanlon hasn't done anything more aerobic than flip the pages of a book for decades; he wasn't even a Boy Scout. It's hardly reassuring that his colleague, poet James Fenton--who had the big idea to trek in Borneo--was a Boy Scout. He hated it, and besides, aged, balding Fenton, whom O'Hanlon describes as rather worm-like, sounds like he's a likely lunch for a swooping black eagle. But on they trod--with the much-needed help of three Iban natives and an unseen, though oft-quoted river god--through jungle, across rivers whose height may rise seven feet overnight, and via native villages (where they often have late-night parties), with one goal in mind: seeing the fabled Borneo rhino. Fenton is nearly swept away in a whirlpool, they subsist on jungle-worm gruel, and ripping off sucking leeches is a near-daily occurrence, but cultural and natural insights and adventures abound in this rip-roaringly funny and deftly written travelogue that will have you chortling out loud. --Melissa Rossi

A Starthing And Revelatory Addition To The Naipaul Canon, This Book Confirms The Author`S Reputation As A Masterful Observer, A `Finder-Out` Of Stories, As Well As A Magnificent Teller Of Them.

Desde el inicio de los tiempos, pocas cosas han interesado más al hombre que el amor, y sin embargo continuamos siendo incapaces de definirlo. Éste es el punto de partida de Sobre el amor y la muerte , un sorprendente texto acerca de la experiencia amorosa y cómo ésta se relaciona con uno de los temas prohibidos de nuestro tiempo, la muerte. Patrick Süskind recurre a los clásicos y a los mitos de la literatura moderna para elaborar una reflexión acerca de Eros y Tánatos bañada de un mordaz sentido del humor y de su peculiar habilidad para dar voz al misterio. Escrito con motivo de la película de Helmut Dietl De la búsqueda y el encuentro del amor, una recreación del mito de Orfeo y Eurídice en cuyo guión colaboró el autor, este texto, inédito en castellano, es una pieza de singular belleza. «El presente ensayo de Süskind me parece magistral y, lo que es mejor, sugerente. En cada página hay que detenerse para pensar un momento. Realmente, hace falta coraje para escribir S obre el amor y la muerte , y hace falta talento para decir algo nuevo al respecto.» Miguel Sáenz

Erika Kohut, a piano teacher who has lived with her mother all of her life, develops an obsession for Walter Klemmer, her young student.

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending traces the life of a seemingly ordinary woman with an extraordinary disdain for wisdom in this “marvelous literary epiphany” (The New York Times Book Review). In this wonderfully provocative novel, Barnes follows Jean Serjeant from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, confronting readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and a glimpse of technology in the twenty-first century (when The Absolute Truth can be universally accessed). Elegant, funny and intellectually subversive, Staring at the Sun is Julian Barnes at his most dazzlingly original.

Paul Theroux's round-Britain travelogue is funny, perceptive and, said the Sunday Times, 'best avoided by patriots with high blood pressure . . . 'After eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is absolutely riveting reading. 'Few of us have seen the entirety of the coast and I for one am grateful to Mr Theroux for making my journey unnecessary. He describes it all brilliantly and honestly' - Anthony Burgess in the Observer. 'Filled with history, insights, landscape, epiphanies, meditations, celebrations and laments' - The New York Times.

Als De tuin der lusten, het beroemde schilderij van Jeroen Bosch, in het Prado-museum van Madrid door een agressieve bezoeker wordt beschadigd en het doek als gevolg daarvan hersteld moet worden, ontdekt restaurateur Michael Keie in de diepere kleurlagen van het schilderij een reeks geheime tekens. Na deze intrigerende ontdekking wordt hij voortdurend op de hielen gezeten door een vrouw die beweert psychologe te zijn. Heeft zij het gemunt op de negatieven van het röntgenonderzoek? En welke betekenis hebben de zeldzame symbolen? De pogingen van Keie dit raadsel van het Prado op te lossen, voeren al snel terug naar de oorsprong van het schilderij, naar het 's Hertogenbosch van 1510, waar de Inquisitie jacht maakt op elke mogelijke vorm van ketterij... Oorspronkelijke Nederlandse titel: Het geheim van Jeroen Bosch

The story of a teenage girl who sees a vision of the Virgin Mary. Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. Her past has been hardscrabble. Then one November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Is this delusion, a product of her occasional drug use, or a true calling to God? Gradually word spreads, and thousands converge upon the already troubled town. For Tom Cross, an embittered logger who's been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, the possibility that Ann's visions are real offers a last chance for him and his son. As Father Collins searches both his own soul and Ann's; as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions; as Tom alternates between despair and hope; OUR LADY OF THE FOREST combines suspense, grit and humour in a story of faith at a contemporary crossroad.

'Gedumpt' vertelt opnieuw het verhaal van een moord op een jonge vrouw: Betty Jean Scales. Het is het adembenemende relaas van twee mannen, een schrijver en een detective, in hun hongerige zoektocht naar gerechtigheid. CPNB Maand van het spannende boek 1998.

Reisverslag van de 5 jaar durende zeereis die de Britse wetenschapper Charles Darwin vanaf 1831 maakte naar Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, Australië en eilanden in de Stille en Indische Oceaan.

Kritische analyse van het huidige Amerikaanse veiligheidsbeleid door de voormalige Amerikaanse geallieerde opperbevelhebber van de NAVO.

Theologische beschouwing over menselijke gevoelens van ontoereikendheid en schuld, door de Amerikaanse rabbijn.

Geschiedenis van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog (1936-1939) met veel aandacht voor de sociale, politieke, militaire en economische aspecten van dit conflict.

/ 9055155039 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / soft cover / 13 x 21 cm / 198 .pp /

Vertaald naar het Nederlands door / Translated into Dutch by Tinke Davids / 9789029508896 / Literature translated into Dutch / Nederlands / Dutch / Néerlandais / Niederländisch / paperback / 13 x 21 cm / 251 .pp /

Deels autobiografisch relaas over het leven van een Amerikaan vanaf zijn vijftiende jaar tot aan de nadering van de middelbare leeftijd.

In denkbeeldige herinneringen vertelt de auteur over ontmoetingen en gebeurtenissen in zijn leven, in zijn huwelijk en in zijn werk als schrijver.

Een Amerikaanse schrijver begint een nieuw leven als hotelmanager op Hawaiï en observeert de levens van de hotelgasten en personeelsleden.

Persoonlijk relaas over de depressie van de schrijver, afgewisseld met meer algemene beschouwingen over deze aandoening.

Een Zuid-Amerikaanse leraar filosofie, die de drugsmafia aanklaagt in de krant, vindt regelmatig als afschrikmiddel een lijk in zijn tuin.

Het wonderlijke levensverhaal van een sensuele, voluptueuze joodse vrouw in Jeruzalem tussen 1948 en de jaren '90.