Dolf Koning Libros

Oh, Jerusalén, que narra el nacimiento del Estado de Israel en 1948, es un libro completamente distinto de todos cuantos se han publicado desde la Guerra de los Seis Días. Y lo es porque nos hace vivir el acontecimiento desde ambos bandos, el árabe y el judío. Y porque nos lo hace vivir con quienes lo vivieron: con los británicos, con las tropas de Abdel Kader y de la Legión Árabe, con los agentes enviados de uno y otro bando, con todos los que, famosos o desconocidos, interpretaron su papel en tan fantástica aventura.

Rich Man, Poor Man is the story of two brothers whose contrasting natures reflect the turmoil of post-war America. Rudy is the rich man - a romantic who would let no one stand between him and success. Tom is the poor man - the black sheep of the family on the run from his violent past.

Dvaačtyřicetiletý Alec Barr je na vrcholu své slávy. Úspěšný novinář a spisovatel dosáhl všeho, po čem kdy toužil. Má bohatou, půvabnou ženu Amelii a žije si nad poměry. Jeho reportáže a knihy jsou žádané, ale s blahobytem rostou i nároky. Z Aleca se postupně stává rutinovaný píšící stroj, který se nesmí zastavit. Jednoho dne se vzbouří a odejde z domova. Prožije bouřlivou milostnou avantýru, která rušivě zasahuje do jeho práce i soukromí. Ztrácí soustředění a nemůže psát. Během dalších let se s tímto rozporem neustále potýká. Touží po volnosti a svobodě bohéma, hledá ji v nočních barech a milostných "výbojích", odjíždí do Afriky, kde nachází jistou svobodu i v účasti ve válce. Přesto cítí, že pro svou práci potřebuje klid, jistotu a zázemí. Najde je?

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ... This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.

Giles Denison's life is turned upside down when he awakes to find himself in a luxurious hotel in Oslo and, peering into the bathroom mirror, discovers the face of another man! He has been kidnapped from his flat in London and transformed into famous Finnish scientist, Dr Harold Feltham Meyrick. Compelled to adjust to his new persona (including meeting his daughter) and to play out the role assigned to him by his captors, he embarks on a dangerous escapade from Norway to Finland and across the border into Soviet Russia.

Barcelona. 22 cm. 209 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Vizinczey, Stephen 1933-. Traducción de Ana Mª de la Fuente. Traducción de: In praise of older women. Fuente, Ana María de la. 1932- .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-226-2919-4

From all over Europe - even from behind the Iron Curtain - the gypsies make their annual pilgrimage to Provence. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist and gastronome, is there, and so is Englishman Neil Bowman. But something is different about this year's gathering... What is the secret the gypsies are so determined to hide? Bowman comes too close to it for safety, and before long he is running for his life. From the dizzy ramparts of Les Baux to the vast limestone caverns beneath, from fiesta in Arles to the flat, salty plains of the Camargue, from the terror of the bull-ring to collisions at sea, the pace never falters.

A dozen years had passed since Mark Fraser and his family had fled to Ganymede, hoping to find the peace and freedom which had eluded them on Earth. Now violence and terror had pursued them to their new-found home: Captain Swayne and his battleship Vega had made landfall on Ganymede and were using its resources to build missiles with which to hold Planet Earth to ransom. For the second time, Mark Fraser was a marked man, running for his life. His only chance of escape was to a third planet: Jupiter. But as Fraser knew only too well, Jupiter itself was the scene of conflict and carnage. And so far no human being had ever breathed its atmosphere and lived to tell the tale!

A converted fishing trawler, Morning Rose carries a movie-making crew across the Barents Sea to isolated Bear Island, well above the Arctic Circle, for some on-location filming, but the script is a secret known only to the producer and screenwriter. En route, members of the movie crew and ship's company begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The crew's doctor, Marlowe, finds himself enmeshed in a violent, multi-layered plot in which very few of the persons aboard are whom they claim to be. Marlowe's efforts to unravel the plot become even more complicated once the movie crew is deposited ashore on Bear Island, beyond the reach of the law or outside help. The murders continue ashore, and Marlowe, who is not what he seems to be either, discovers they may be related to some forgotten events of the Second World War.

The Oasis , McCarthy's second novel, won a contest organized by Cyril Connelly, the British critic and editor of the prestigious literary magazine Horizon , and was first published as the February 1949 edition of that magazine. Connelly called the book "brilliant and true and funny and beautifully written and intelligently thought and felt." The Oasis is a wickedly satiric roman a clef about a group of urban American intellectuals who try unsuccessfully to establish a rural utopian colony just as the Cold War is setting in and fear of the atomic bomb is reaching panic proportions. At its appearance a few months later in the U.S., the novel caused a scandal, alienating a number of McCarthy's friends. One of her former lovers, the critic Philip Rahv, was so upset at the character based on him that he tried to stop its publication. At the same time, a then relatively new acquaintance who later became McCarthy's closest friend, Hannah Arendt, wrote her: "I just read The Oasis and must tell you that it was pure delight. You have written a veritable little masterpiece."

Geheimzinnige moorden doen de spanning binnen een filmploeg op het Bereneiland hoog oplopen.

Levensbeschrijving van de nationaal-socialistische dictator (1889-1945).

Een groepje Duitse parachutisten wordt in de Tweede Wereldoorlog naar Engeland gezonden om Churchill te kidnappen.