Marilyn Mona Hoffer Libri

Potrebbe essere l'eroina di un romanzo d'avventura e di passione. Invece Tehmina Durrani è la vera protagonista dei fatti che racconta. Sposata con Mustafa Khar, eminente uomo politico pakistano, Tehmina è costretta dal marito ad accettare violenze e angherie, a subire umiliazioni e tradimenti. Tuttavia, durante gli anni più burrascosi della recente storia del Pakistan, Tehmina condivide con Mustafa Khar una lunga battaglia politica tanto in patria quanto in esilio. Per accorgersi, alla fine, di essersi battuta al fianco di un uomo assetato solo di potere. E' l'ultima delusione quella che le dà la forza di lasciarlo e di smascherarlo scrivendo un libro. Questo libro. Che in Pakistan ha suscitato scandalo, ma ha anche aiutato tante donne a ritrovare la propria dignità. Un documento unico. La storia di Tehmina e del suo Paese in cerca di libertà.

In 1971 Richard Burke, a freshman at Georgetown University, volunteered his services to the offices of his political idol, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Through ability, hard work, and dedication, Burke rose in the next four years to become one of the Senator's closest staff members. In 1977 he was made Kennedy's personal assistant; after his appointment in 1978 as administrative assistant - the youngest in the Senate - he came to know Edward M. Kennedy perhaps more intimately than anyone outside the closed circle of the Senator's family. He was often the last to see the Senator at night and the first to see him in the morning. This book is the account of what Richard Burke witnessed and experienced during his decade at the Senator's right hand. It is neither a full biography nor an examination of Kennedy's long career in government. Rather, it is the history of a young man who shared the Senator's professional and personal lives during a time marked by exhilarating public achievements and tragic secret misconduct. His story is not only the chronicle of a shattered idol, but of Richard Burke's own fall from grace, and eventual recovery. Burke does not shrink from confronting his own faults, and he agrees with the Senator: It is time for him to confront his.

L'histoire d'un kidnapping réalisé avec le soutien et l'aide logistique d'une communauté juive intégriste, les Satmars, et le portrait d'une femme, la narratrice, Belge de confession catholique, qui a su vaincre ses terreurs et le pouvoir de son mari, Israélien d'origine yéménite, pour sauver ses enfants.