Isabella Vaj Bücher

Mariam ist 15 Jahre alt, als sie aus der Provinz nach Kabul geschickt und mit dem dreißig Jahre älteren Schuhmacher Raschid verheiratet wird. Jahre später kommt die Familie der Nachbarstochter Laila bei einem Bombenangriff ums Leben. Laila bleibt keine Wahl: Sie wird Raschids Zweitfrau. Das anfängliche Misstrauen zwischen Mariam und Laila weicht einer tiefen Freundschaft. Bald wehren sie sich gemeinsam gegen Raschids Brutalität. Während der Taliban- Herrschaft überstehen sie Bombardierungen, Hunger und physische Gewalt - und ihre Stärke wächst ins schier Übermenschliche.

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It is about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies. A sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years, The Kite Runner is an unusual and powerful novel that has become a beloved, one-of-a-kind classic. --khaledhosseini.com

Biografischer Roman um die chinesische Künstlerin Pan Yuliang, die, aus ärmsten Verhältnissen stammend, zu einer bekannten, wegen ihrer Aktbilder aber auch umstrittenen Malerin wird und ihr Land schliesslich verlassen muss.

Surgeon Michael Severin knows all about tragedy: he works with international aid organisations at scenes of disaster all over the world. He is himself is a survivor of an appalling childhood horror, and it is this which drives him to undergo hardship and sometimes danger to do what he can to help. Severin’s stock in trade may be earthquakes and floods, but at home in London, with his beloved wife Caitlin, there at least he is sure of his ground. Respected by his profession, loved both by Caitlin and by his endearingly eccentric foster-father Anthony, Severin’s life is rich and fulfilled – even if he can never quite lay the ghost of his own childhood tragedy. Until something happens which shakes his world more profoundly than any tsunami. Returning from a mission in South America, Severin finds Caitlin dying in their London flat. She has been brutally beaten. From then on, the mysteries deepen as Michael Severin’s secure world begins to fall apart. Who is the strange young woman who turns up unannounced after the killing, and who seems to know more than she should? Who has been sending Caitlin childish drawings of a house in the woods – a house Severin has never seen before? And who really was Caitlin? Did Severin really know her at all? Do we ever really know the people we love?