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Melissa Müller

    1 gennaio 1967

    Melissa Müller è una giornalista e autrice austriaca il cui lavoro si addentra spesso nelle profondità dell'esperienza umana. La sua scrittura è riconosciuta per la sua acuta osservazione e la sua capacità di svelare le complessità della vita quotidiana. Müller esplora diverse sfaccettature della società e della psiche, offrendo ai lettori narrazioni coinvolgenti e stimolanti. Il suo approccio è profondamente umanistico, concentrato sulla comprensione delle motivazioni e dei mondi interiori dei suoi personaggi.

    Melissa Müller
    Alice's piano
    Sicily
    Lost Lives, Lost Art
    Anne Frank: The Biography
    Alice Herz-Sommer
    Anne Frank
    • Anne Frank: The Biography

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      This updated biography of Anne Frank offers new revelations and insights into her life, enhancing the original 1998 account. It includes fresh information about her family, their betrayal, and arrest, presenting a nuanced portrayal of Anne as a real person amid the horrors of the Holocaust. A must-read for deeper understanding.

      Anne Frank: The Biography
    • Sicily

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Melissa shares her lifelong passion for Sicilian food, through firsthand narrative loaded with recipes and beautiful photographs, giving us an insider's view of this magical island. -Mike Colameco, host of Mike Colameco's Real Food Melissa's book is like poetry to me . Her attachment and sense of belonging to her land and its heritage is palpable in every paragraph, captured in each picture, and summed up in a beautiful and delicious story. We share that bittersweet melancholy for our Italian land that is at the origin of our passionate work: being able to tell these stories is a privilege and an honor, and Melissa has done an impeccable job at it. -Gabriele Corcos, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extra Virgin: Recipes and Love from Our Tuscan Kitchen Just about everything I've come to know and love about Sicilian food, wine, history, and culture is thanks to Melissa Muller. Now, with this captivating book, Melissa can share her ardor and wisdom about Sicily with the wider world of readers, cooks, and diners. Sicily: The Cookbook is a definitive work of culinary brilliance, family lore, and narrative writing. It announces the arrival of a new generation's M.F.K. Fisher or Alice Waters. -Samuel G. Freedman, author of Letters to a Young Journalist and professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Sicily is a center of fusion cuisine - spicing traditional Italian recipes with flair from elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Here Melissa Muller funnels summers spent visiting her grandparents on the island into recipes for antipasti, fish, meat and dessert in language even novice cooks can understand. It feels like learning family recipes in her grandparents' kitchen. Her text also offers tips on finding great produce and attending festivals if you plan to visit. - Metrosource NY

      Sicily
    • Alice's piano

      • 349pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Chronicles the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist who used her love of music to provide hope to her fellow sufferers at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

      Alice's piano
    • Until the Final Hour

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      'To have such an uncomplicated, unaffected witness present at some of the key defining moments of the 20th century was fortunate for historians. Frau Junge's book has sold 100,000 copies in Germany and it is easy to see why: her testimony rings absolutely true, when other politically motivated accounts of the last days of Hitler do not' Andrew Roberts, Evening StandardTraudl Junge was 22 years old and dreamt of a career as a ballerina, until the 'opportunity of her life' beckoned and she was appointed as Adolf Hitler's secretary. From 1942 until his death she was at his side in the bunker, typing his correspondence, his speeches and even his last private and political will and testament.It was only after the war that the horrible reality of Hitler's regime began to dawn on her, and she became racked with guilt for 'liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived.' Her journal, written in 1947, is a startling eyewitness account of Hitler's court during its final years, and of the building sense of doom as the war progressed.

      Until the Final Hour
    • Do posledního okamžiku

      Vzpomínky Hitlerovy sekretářky

      • 303pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Osobní vzpomínky Traudl Jungeové, poslední a nejmladší sekretářky Adolfa Hitlera. Než dostala jako dvaadvacetiletá v roce 1942 svou „životní šanci“ v samotném centru nacistické moci, snila o kariéře tanečnice. Byla mladá, bezelstná, až naivní. O politiku se vůbec nezajímala. Nevěděla, nebo spíš nechtěla vědět, co se děje za zdmi téměř idylického pracoviště. Nevnímala Hitlera jen jako státníka a politika, znala ho především jako svého zaměstnavatele, stýkala se s ním při stolování a oficiálních příležitostech, ale zejména při každodenní práci v kanceláři. Jako osobní sekretářka mu byla nablízku také v den jeho sebevraždy 30. dubna 1945. Právě jí vůdce nadiktoval svou politickou i soukromou závěť.

      Do posledního okamžiku
    • Umělecký svět prvorepublikové Prahy a peklo koncentračního tábora formují život Alice Herzové-Sommerové, která nyní žije v Londýně. Ve svých sto šesti letech má za sebou neobyčejný život, prožitý v průběhu celého dvacátého století. Alice objevuje lásku k hudbě již v dětství a v šestnácti letech se stává nejmladší členkou mistrovské třídy Německé hudební akademie v Praze. Její kariéra však brzy narazí na antisemitské urážky a následky první světové války, kdy její otec ztrácí téměř celý majetek. Druhá světová válka přináší nejhorší rány: v roce 1941 je deportována její matka a v roce 1943 se Alice se svým mužem a synem ocitá v Terezíně. I v tomto pekle si zachovává sílu a laskavost, pořádá více než sto koncertů, čímž dodává naději svým spoluvězňům a vytváří „ráj uprostřed pekla“ pro svého syna, který vystupuje v dětské opeře Brundibár. Po osvobození se vrací do Prahy, kde zjišťuje, že Židé nejsou vítáni, a emigruje do Izraele, kde učí na Jeruzalémské konzervatoři. Ve svých třiaosmdesáti letech se stěhuje do Londýna k synovi, nyní světově proslulému cellistovi, a dodnes každý den hraje na klavír.

      Alice Herzová-Sommerová. Rajská zahrada uprostřed pekla