Frans Bruning Bücher

Michael Havelock, als Mikhail Havlicek in dem tschechischen Dod Lidice geboren, wird als Zwölfjähriger aus Prag herausgeschmuggelt und findet Aufnahme in den Vereinigten Staaten. Aber das furchtbare Geschehen der Vergangenheit brennt in ihm weiter. Damit die Schüsse von Lidice nie mehr möglich werden, bricht er kurzerhand seine glänzende Universitätslaufbahn ab, um Agent zu werden. Sein Spezialgebiet: Spionage und Überläufer. Von nun an besteht sein Leben aus einem unablässigen Kampf ums Überleben. Da bekommt er in Prag eine neue Mitarbeiterin zugeteilt: Jenna Karras. Und je mehr er sich in diese Frau verliebt, desto mehr verblassen die Schatten der Vergangenheit. Michael Havelock steht an der entscheidenden Wende seines Lebens...

From the celebrated author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev , a trilogy of related novellas about a woman whose life touches three very different men—stories that encompass some of the profoundest themes of the twentieth century. Ilana Davita Dinn is the listener to whom three men relate their lives. As a young girl, she offers English lessons to a teenage survivor of the camps. In “The Ark Builder,” he shares with her the story of his friendship with a proud old builder of synagogue arks, and what happened when the German army invaded their Polish town. As a graduate student, she finds herself escorting a guest lecturer from the Soviet Union, and in “The War Doctor,” her sympathy moves him to put his painful past to paper recounting his experiences as a Soviet NKVD agent who was saved by an idealistic doctor during the Russian civil war, only to encounter him again during the terrifying period of the Kremlin doctors’ plot. And, finally, we meet her in “The Trope Teacher,” in which a distinguished professor of military history, trying to write his memoirs, is distracted by his wife’s illness and by the arrival next door of a new neighbor, the famous writer I. D. (Ilana Davita) Chandal. Poignant and profound, Chaim Potok’s newest fiction is a major addition to his remarkable—and remarkably loved—body of work.

De zestienjarige Griet treedt als dienstmeisje in dienst bij de vermaarde schilder Johannes Vermeer. Het beeldschone, protestantse meisje weet al snel een plek te veroveren binnen de katholieke familie. De kunstenaar raakt in de loop der jaren steeds meer gecharmeerd van haar schoonheid, en besluit haar te schilderen. De groeiende intimiteit tussen hen veroorzaakt spanning en onrust in het geordende huishouden, tot ergernis van Vermeers eigenzinnige vrouw Catharina. Met een geweldig vermogen zich in te leven in het zeventiende-eeuwse Delft, vertelt Tracy Chevalier in Meisje met de parel het fictieve verhaal van een jonge vrouw die op de rand van haar volwassenheid een genie ontmoet.

From the bestselling master of the high-voltage international thriller comes a must-read for every fan of vintage Ludlum. A scientist receives an offer he can't refuse--two million dollars for a geoogical survey of Jamaica's dark interior. But when British Intelligence gets wind of his mission, they let him in on a little secret--the last survey team never came back.