Meet Fred Kaufmann, disillusioned husband of thoroughly competent Claudia and father of surly teenager Franka. His dreams of being a movie director have long ago been shelved for marriage and a child. While Claudia sells her successful vegetarian take-out restaurant to a fast food chain and buys into Buddhism, Fred is trapped in the throes of a classic midlife crisis, made worse when Franka falls madly in love with a young guru. With the hope that brown rice and hardcore meditation will cure Franka's obsession, Fred chaperones his daughter to the meditation center in the South of France. But as a bizarre set of events unfolds, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that only a special kind of hero can survive. Funny, incisive, and ultimately forgiving, Where Do We Go From Here? is a masterpiece of ironic social comedy from one of Germany's leading writers and filmmakers.
In this sweeping historical novel, a Scottish lady will do anything to protect her aristocratic life from the guilty secrets of her humble origins. Young and ambitious, Marion Cheyne feels trapped by her poor village roots and her lowly job as a domestic servant. So when she’s suddenly faced with an opportunity to escape her dead-end life, she doesn’t think twice. Absconding from her employer’s home with more money than she’d ever seen in her life, Marion sets out for a new life in faraway Aberdeen. Years later, the struggling servant girl Marion has become Marianne, wife of the heir to Castle Lyall, and every inch the lady of the glen. More a business arrangement than a love match, Marianne's commitment to her role and to the name of Lyall is total. As family, friends and world wars come and go, she will stop at nothing to protect her hard-won position. But the many secrets of her past refuse to stay safely buried. Nothing in the small community of the glen can remain hidden forever . . .
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Frischer Schnee! Huiii, das macht Martin und seinen Freunden Spaß: In ihren schönen, warmen Winterjacken sausen sie auf ihren Schlitten die Hügel im Park hinunter. Immer an der alten Frau vorbei, die frierend auf der schneebedeckten Bank sitzt. Dem kleinen Jungen Martin ist die Frau schon ein bisschen unheimlich. Warum geht sie nicht nachHause, wenn sie keinen Mantel anhat? Doris Dörrie erzählt die Geschichte vom heiligen Martin, von der Armut und vom Teilen neu. Eine herzerwärmende Vorlesegeschichte für Eltern mit Kindern ab vier Jahren mit Bildern der vielfach ausgezeichneten Illustratorin Jacky Gleich.
Sie befragen das ›I Ging‹, versuchen es mit dem Buddhismus, suchen ihr Glück bei Sushi-Dinners oder in Hollywood. Doris Dörrie porträtiert die Generation der heute Mittvierziger, die angetreten war, in Liebe, Familie, Beruf alles so viel toleranter, cooler, besser zu machen als ihre Eltern ... Fünfzehn tragisch-komische Geschichten über Gestern und Heute, die gar nicht so weit auseinanderliegen, wie wir oft glauben.
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