Jean-Noel Liaut Libri

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A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908-1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women whose biographies intrigue and inspire modern-day readers. Like her contemporaries Lee Miller or Vita Sackville-West, Toto lived with an independent spirit more typical of the men of her generation, moving in the worlds of fashion, society, art, and politics with an insouciant ease that would stir both admiration and envy even today. Sphinxlike and tantalizing, Toto conducted her life as a game, driven by audacity and style. Jean-Noël Liaut chases his enigmatic subject through the many roles and lives she inhabited, both happy and tragic. Though her beauty, charisma, and taste for the extraordinary made her an exuberant fixture of Paris fashion and café society, her intelligence and steely sense of self drove her toward bigger things, culminating in espionage during WWII, for which she was imprisoned by the Nazis in Ravensbruck. After the horrors of the camp, she found solace in Erica Brausen, the German art dealer who launched the career of Francis Bacon, and the two women lived out their lives together surrounded by cultural luminaries like Edmonde Charles-Roux and Luchino Visconti. But even in her later decades, Toto remained impossible for anyone to possess. The Many Lives of Miss K explores the allure of a freethinking and courageous woman who, fiercely protective of her independence, was sought after by so many but ultimately known by very few

Once in a lifetime an astonishing true story comes along that not only captivates but also makes you re-evaluate your beliefs. Red Amaryllis is one of those stories.

Lili Brik y Elsa Triolet nacieron en Moscú a finales del siglo XIX. Tan famosas por su belleza como por su inteligencia, formaron un famoso cuartetocon dos de los poetas más brillantes de su tiempo, Vladimir Maiakovski y Louis Aragon. Lili coleccionó los genios con una puntería infalible: el novelista Pasternak, los artistas Ródchenko y Málevich, el compositor Shostakóvich, el cineasta Eisenstein o la bailarina Maya Plisétskaya. Elsa, la pequeña, fascinada por su hermana mayor; tuvo que librar grandes batallas para reafirmarse y salirse de su sombra. Pero Maxim Gorki la animó a escribir y cuando se convirtió en la primera mujer ganadora del Premio Goncourt, tras haberse destacado en la Resistencia, comprendió que había suplantado a su hermana, reducida al papel de inspiradora y Egeria

Denise soll einer Freundin bei der Geburt beistehen. Klar macht sie das. Da gibt es nur ein klitzekleines Problem: Sie hat keine Ahnung davon, was auf sie zukommt! Sie bestellt Bücher (ob 376 Seiten genügen?), befragt Freunde über ihre Geburtserlebnisse („Das ganze Blut! Mach das bloß nicht!“) und packt ihre eigene Kliniktasche... Bei der Geburt dabei zu sein, prägt ihr weiteres Leben. Kurz darauf hat Denise selbst ein Baby im Bauch, Chaos im Kopf und viele Fragen. Im Dschungel von Hormonen, Möbelhäusern und gegensätzlichen Ratschlägen macht sie sich auf die Suche nach Antworten. Eine wundervolle Geschichte über die Fragen einer werdenden Mutter und ihre überraschenden Erkenntnisse. Witzig und ernst, nachdenklich und lebensfroh.