Ergebnis für "Ostend" in Literatur & Belletristik

It's the summer of 1936, and writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his home in Austria has been seized. He's been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town. So he journeys there with his new lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with his semiestranged fellow writer and close friend, Joseph Roth. For a moment they create a fragile paradise. But as Europe begins to crumble around them, the writers find themselves trapped on vacation, in exile, watching the world burn.

Pour guérir d'une rupture sentimentale, un homme se réfugie à Ostende, ville endormie face à la mer du Nord. Sa logeuse, la solitaire Emma Van A., va le surprendre en lui racontant l'étrange histoire de sa vie, où se conjuguent l'amour le plus passionné et un érotisme baroque. Superbe mystificatrice ou femme unique ?

Artist Aren Montrell has heard tales of the Oestend wraiths - mysterious creatures that come in the night and kill anyone who’s not indoors. Aren’s never believed the stories, but when he takes a job as a bookkeeper on the BarChi, a dusty cattle ranch in the furthest reaches of Oestend, he learns the wraiths are very real. And they’re only one of the many dangers in the wild, treacherous place he now calls home.