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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Claudia Calisti
la storia di Alida che si ribella al mandato paterno.
Il cavallo delle parole: un proverbio una storia
Claudia Nur Calisti
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Il cavallo delle parole il proverbio, veicolo di molteplici significati ai quali l'autrice si rif per le sue novelle, ciascuna diversa dall'altra per genere: si passa dall'humor al brivido, in un ride irresistibile. In perfetta sincronia con il suo stile di scrittura che abolisce la distinzione fra i generi, Claudia Nur Calisti inserisce racconti in Inglese e Spagnolo, e fa spesso uso del dialetto per dare ora colore, ora squarci di realt , con un effetto gradevolmente naturale.
Power. Passion. Betrayal.Claudia has a privileged life. Niece of Rome's favoured warrior, she lives in luxury, surrounded by her family and tended by slaves. Gifted with second sight, her dreams tell her many things, from which gladiator will win the battle in the Coliseum to the secret enemies who plot against the Emperor. When Claudia falls deeply in love with a charismatic soldier known as Pilate, she determines to win his heart, whatever the cost. But Rome is built on powerful, treacherous alliances, and while Pilate's star continues to rise, shame and tragedy stalk Claudia's family. As a circle of betrayal and despair threatens to encompass her, Claudia realises her fate and future happiness is inextricably bound with a man who appears in her dreams, a man who wears a crown of thorns, a man she knows her husband must not condemn to death...'[Claudia] makes the female experience of past millennia exotic yet universal' USA TODAY'Breathes fresh air into the historical genre . . . A story of opulence, greed, lust and the power of women' South Wales Argus
How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them...When Claudia Talwar is called to meet a mysterious visitor in the reception of her Manchester office block, she can't believe her eyes. It's Samson Glaze, former hippy turned internationally famous entrepreneur, and the fifteen-years-absent father figure of her youth.It doesn't take much for Samson to convince her to help find his son, Reggie Glaze, who's got into a bit of trouble: namely, he's joined a group called Tarantula who wear black armbands and seem obsessed with 'the next world'. Before she knows it, Claudia finds herself swept into a dark adventure of solar power, a hammer wielding assassin, and the end of our world . . .'Trevelyan's prose is wholly readable, with wonderful, concise details that conjure full moments in perfect little capsules' Dublin Inquirer
How good are people? Let me tell you, Dee: people are as good as the pair of eyes they believe is on them...When Claudia Talwar is called to meet a mysterious visitor in the reception of her Manchester office block, she can't believe her eyes. It's Samson Glaze, former hippy turned internationally famous entrepreneur, and the fifteen-years-absent father figure of her youth.It doesn't take much for Samson to convince her to help find his son, Reggie Glaze, who's got into a bit of trouble: namely, he's joined a group called Tarantula who wear black armbands and seem obsessed with 'the next world'. Before she knows it, Claudia finds herself swept into a dark adventure of solar power, a hammer wielding assassin, and the end of our world . . .'Trevelyan's prose is wholly readable, with wonderful, concise details that conjure full moments in perfect little capsules' Dublin Inquirer
It's one shocking surprise after another with Claudia. After a very modest life in Sweden, her single mother, a Latvian refugee, marries a successful Canadian doctor and they move to Canada. Following in her mother's footsteps, Claudia, too, marries a successful surgeon. She lives an enviable perfect life with her handsome husband and four children (not all of them perfect). But behind the perfect fa ade she hides the shame and guilt of the past: the murders she witnessed, and her involvement in them. It's her dirty secret to take to the grave. It's not until later in life, living alone in her big house, and after witnessing yet another senseless murder that, fed up with feeling cursed, she finds the courage to face the trauma of the past, those incidents she herself had a part in - when she and her girlfriends found that shunned girl from their class raped strangled in the park during their lunch break, and then, and when seven years later she found one of those girlfriends, Anneli, on a beach in Spain with her throat cut. She remembers how she stood looking at Anneli wondering if she had been killed because of what she said that time when they stood around that other girl's dead body in the park. They were not kind words. None of them had showed any empathy. Is Claudia to be punished as well at some point? For that same lack of empathy? It's no wonder that has never felt really safe, always surrounded her with talismans for protection, her husband being the greatest talisman of them all. In the end he can't help her either. Then suddenly her Latvian mother decides to return to Riga after sixty years, insisting Claudia comes along. Claudia, having nothing better to do, agrees, afraid to let her frail old mother travel alone. In Riga her mother grows increasingly distant as she chases a past that is no longer there. But eventually they make two discoveries. One is a happy one; a part of the past has survived into the present. The other is one of terror that makes Claudia's past traumas seem irrelevant. It also makes both her and her mother sit down late one evening and confess dark secrets to each other, dark secrets that time has faded. But the question now is: will she have the strength and the empathy to deal with this latest disaster, a disaster that involved family? And will the family ties prove strong enough? They must, because family is all she has left. This is a story both serious and humorous in a dark blend.
"claudia." is the debut poetry collection from Megan Nicole, an author from Colorado. The poems draw from her past of abuse, trauma, loss, and love, sharing a story both heartbreaking and comforting. In addition to the varied collection of vivid poems, there are also mini-essays recounting Megan's emotional journey.
If your parents split up, don't worry. You are not alone.There are many of us kids out there, and it's all right.Even though it's hard sometimes, you are going to have many happy times ahead of you. And remember, both your parents still love you and want the best for you
