Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing; a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poo...
With rich detail and humor, a suspenseful historical romance involving Joseph Fouche+a7 (Robespierre's redoubtable police commissioner during the French Revolution), Marie Antoinette, and a girl aristocrat conveys the sweep of Parisian life at the time.
The author of Mercedes and the House of Rainbows presents a literary memoir about a young American in Spain. Told in the voice of a man remembering his youth, as it is shaded with adult understanding of his original open-lensed impessions of a lost era, the book results in a portrait of the turbulent Europe the author himself knew first-hand as a child.
1793 erreicht die französische Revolution ihren Höhepunkt. Königin Marie Antoinette gelingt am Abend vor ihrer Hinrichtung die Flucht. Um sein Versagen zu vertuschen, schmuggelt der Polizeichef seine der Königin täuschend ähnlich sehende Geliebte in die Todeszelle.