Pamela Jekel Books







Il verde fiume della vita
- 520 pages
- 19 hours of reading
The scope of Columbia - the first epic saga of our country's final courageous thrust into the continental unknown, the Pacific Northwest - is as massive as the Columbia River itself. The story begins nine thousand years ago, when the river was new, and unfolds in a magnificent family portrait spanning five generations, from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. At the head of the ancient family is Ilchee, a Chinook Indian princess married to a white trader, who founds a dynasty of rare courage; Caleb, her son, who must learn to live in the white world of Fort Vancouver; Suzanna, who makes the arduous trip across the continent, battling humiliation, death, and even love; Isaac, their son, who builds a logging empire only to discover that destiny, not timer, is king; Ning Ho, Isaac's Chinese mistress, who teaches him even more of life than of pleasure; and finally Will, who rejects his father's vision to power his own - the building of the Grand Coulee Dam - and Leona, his wife, whose secret threatens to destroy everything the family has worked to create. Columbia is a rich, vivid canvas of heroes and scoundrels, of men and women and their dreams of land, gold, timber, salmon and power - dreams that begin when a nomad hunter kills a mastodon and end with an archaeology team working frantically to uncover evidence of that killing before the Columbia's waters rise to cover the past forever - and a family destiny that proves "some things must be believe to be seen."
Über mehrere Generationen hinweg schildert der Roman das Schicksal der Nachkommen Josiah Flemings, der sich mit einem Treck in das fruchtbare Mississippi-Delta aufmachte, um dort eine Farm zu gründen. Vor dem Sezessionskrieg besitzt seine Familie eine der angesehensten Baumwollplantagen in Natchez und ist sehr angesehen. Im Mittelpunkt der Südstaatensaga stehen vor allem die Frauen der Familie - alle eigenwillige, starke Persönlichkeiten
Bayou
- 634 pages
- 23 hours of reading
Le Bayou, région bien étrange où la mer et la rivière s'épousent, où la terre et l'eau s'entrelacent. Mystérieux delta peuplé d'une faune sauvage et d'une flore exubérante. Dans ce splendide paysage va naître la Louisiane. De 1786 à 1927, Oliva, Célisma, Manon et Zoé verront successivement leur destin soudé à celui du Bayou. Ces femmes du Sud, au caractère enflammé et à la vie aussi torturée que les méandres du fleuve lutteront contre les préjugés, l'humiliation, l'esclavage. Fières et obstinées, elles choisiront l'amour et vivront leur passion. Les bateaux à aube descendent lentement le Mississippi. Mais le fleuve saura rappeler qu'il est indomptable, tout comme ces femmes rebelles qui refusent la résignation.
V dalších deseti příbězích Mauglího se znovu setkáme s jeho medvědím učitelem Bálúem a věrným černým pardálem Baghírou i s dalšími chlapcovými spojenci a protivníky. Jeho příhody v džungli budeme sdílet až do doby, kdy se z něj stane mladý muž a otec rodiny.



