Marianne Fredriksson Libri

Hanna, Johanna e Anna. Sono madre, figlia e nipote, ma il legame che le unisce è più forte di quello del sangue. Il potente ritratto di tre generazioni di donne è al centro di una toccante saga familiare in cui si specchiano cento anni di storia, dall'Ottocento ai nostri giorni. Un romanzo sull'amore. Un romanzo sulla verità. Un romanzo sull'indipendenza. Le figlie di Hanna è tutto questo ma anche molto di più: un libro in cui ogni donna ritrova un frammento di se stessa, uno straordinario coro di voci femminili di volta in volta tenere o dolenti, disperate o allegre.

Katarina Elg è giovane e libera. Accetta la propria sensualità e adora essere innamorata. Ma ha paura dell'intimità e dei legami affettivi. Per lei è essenziale essere indipendente, avere la libertà di decidere della propria vita. Ma a un certo punto rimane incinta e decide di far nascere il suo bambino. Quando dice come stanno le cose al padre del bambino, lui la picchia a sangue. Nel momento in cui Katarina riprende i sensi, in ospedale, comincia a intuire l'esistenza di uno schema ricorrente. Lei stessa è cresciuta in una famiglia nella quale la madre veniva sistematicamente maltrattata dal padre.Possibile che la violenza sia ereditaria, in chi la esercita e in chi la subisce?

Simon grows up as an adopted son with the warm-hearted Karin and her husband in a coastal house in Gothenburg, during the uncertain times before World War II. His Jewish father’s identity is hidden from him, but sensitive Simon embarks on a quest for his origins. Marianne Fredriksson, author of "Hannas Töchtern," delivers another poignant family novel.

This quietly moving story of family, friendship, and love, by the author of Hanna's Daughters , has already become an international best-seller and will no doubt capture the hearts of American readers as well. Simon Larsson is a pensive andd thoughtful boy growing up i Sweden during World War II, fortunate to be safe within a remarkably loving and cohesive community. Half Jewish, he is being raised by his Scandinavian aunt and uncle, who adopted him as their own at birth. In a novel rich in mystical overtones, his adoptive parents take on truly archetypal dimensions. Karin's deep love and compassion is matched by Erik's understated strength and stoicism, and together they create a firm family base from which 11 year-old Simon can grow and dream. But Simon, who doesn't know the story of his birth and adoption, seems set apart from his Scandinavian world by his dark hair and olive complexion, and he often retreats into fantasies to alleviate his feelings of disconnection. When he befriends Isak Lentov, a young Jewish boy from Germany, their families become close in spite of the contrast between Isak's father's religious faith and the Larssons' strictly secular Swedish socialism. These two opposing viewpoints help form a unique framework for Simon and Isak as they come of age and work toward finding meaning in their lives, and as Fredriksson explores relations between fantasy, myth, and reality. --Catherine Sias

Long after the death of Christ, Mary Magdalene is married to a silk merchant, Leonidas. She lives a quiet and harmonious life until, one day, the apostle Peter comes to the market square to preach and she slips into the crowd to hear what he has to say. She is not impressed, and wants to forget that Jesus chose death, not life with her. But she has reckoned without the apostles who persuade her to write down everything she can remember. Mary starts with her Jewish childhood and the slaughter of her family by the Romans. Running for her life, she is rescued by Leonidas who leaves her in a 'house of pleasure' where she grows into a beautiful woman. Then she meets and falls deeply in love with a young man from Nazareth - and her life changes. . . Marianne Fredriksson masterfully breathes new life into the figure of Mary Magdalene in this novel of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, seen through the eyes of the woman who loved him most.

Inge is tall and cool and Mira is petite and dynamic. When they meet, each is attracted by something special and different about the other. But friendships based on the attraction of opposites can be stormy, and theirs is no exception. Blonde Inge is a native of Sweden, while dark Mira has fled there to escape the living hell of Chile at the time of the military coup led by General Pinochet. They are brought together by their mutual love of plants, but this gentle pastime is soon overshadowed by the terrible legacy of Mira¿s past. It is a legacy that will reach out to touch many lives, including those of Inge and Mira¿s children. Bestselling Swedish author Marianne Fredriksson has again created a totally involving story. Written with sympathy and insight and sparkling with unexpected humour, INGE & MIRA is a deeply moving tale of lives haunted by past violence.

They meet on a spring day in the local garden center: Inge, a native Swede, lovely and refined, is a woman ruled by reason and her own deeply held moral beliefs; and Mira, a Chilean immigrant who still feels out of place in the cold Scandinavian north, and has spent far too much of her life searching for meaning.Intrigued by one another, the two women are nevertheless wary of the great cultural differences that seem to separate their lives. Yet both are single mothers devoted to their children, and both find joy and comfort in cultivating plants and flowers -- and so together, they begin to develop a close bond. Through many afternoons spent amid the beauty of Inge's garden, Mira slowly reveals the horrors of a shadowed past and the heartbreak involving her beloved daughter.As Mira and her family begin a wrenching journey of discovery, Inge unwittingly uncovers secrets in her own life that make her question the very order of her world . . . and wonder whether the truth is really what anyof them needs to find -- or if, in fact, it is the truth that will destroy them.An elegant and moving novel of time and memory, love and distance, and the wounds they create and conceal, "Two Women" is Marianne Fredriksson's most affecting work of fiction to date.

Schweden - das Land der Schären, der riesigen Seen und Wälder, das Land von Astrid Lindgren und Selma Lagerlöf. Und das Land unserer Erfolgsautorin Marianne Fredriksson. Sie entführt uns in ihren Romanen immer wieder in die Einsamkeit der schwedischen Landschaft, in kleine Dörfer, wo jeder jeden kennt, an riesige Seen, die wie das Meer ausschauen. Gehen Sie mit ihr auf eine Reise durch Schweden - entdecken Sie das unbeschreiblich schöne und eindrucksvolle Land der Marianne Fredriksson. Lassen Sie sich ihre Lieblingsplätze und -orte zeigen und tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt, die sie so kraftvoll in ihren Romanen beschrieben hat.

Hlavní postavou příběhu je Marie Magdaly. Její rodina je při římském útoku vyvražděna. Jí samotné se podaří uprchnout a postará se o ní Řek, který slouží Římu. Ponechá ji v nevěstinci v Tiberiadě, nechá ji vzdělávat v jazycích a dívka se naučí i porozumět rozdílům mezi různými náboženstvími. Je si sice vědoma své odlišnosti a chová se proto zdrženlivě. Jednoho dne se setká s Ježíšem. Mnozí ho považují za Mesiáše, jiní za nerealistického snílka. Zrodí se mezi nimi hluboká sympatie - sdílejí stejný pocit vydědenců. Sympatie uzraje v lásku a vyústí ve společný život. Ježíš ví, co ho čeká Marie je připravena. Provází ho až na Golgotu, a když Ježíš umírá na kříži, přijde o rozum.

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