The book offers a heartfelt and personal journey through an island that has captivated Maria Andreas for nearly thirty years. With a blend of emotion, humor, and tenderness, she shares her deep connection to the island's language, history, and culture. This intimate pilgrimage reveals her affection for this "big pebble," where she expresses the essence of her experiences and the profound impact the island has had on her life.
Set against the backdrop of the pandemic, the journal reflects Maria Andreas's deep spiritual inquiry and emotional response to the chaos unleashed by a malevolent force. Through a series of heartfelt dialogues with God, she explores themes of faith, suffering, and resilience in a transformed world. The work offers poignant insights that resonate with readers regardless of their beliefs, showcasing a blend of personal reflection and broader societal commentary. This English translation preserves the original's intensity and sensitivity.
The magical story of a woman in search of freedom and joy. Maria is an Australian of Greek Cypriot ancestry born and bred in Adelaide. The youngest daughter of an Orthodox family. She had avoided arranged marriages and permanent employment has evaded her. She applies for a job with a remote Aboriginal Community in the Great Western Desert in Western Australia. She believes she will only stay for three months and stays for seven years. She comes to understand that traditional can mean many different things and learns to suspend judgement and marinate herself in a Aboriginal culture that although traditional is also progressive, resourceful, romantic and loving. She falls in love with the Kimberly and a traditional bushman. Maria is a feminist. How does she reconcile her independence - so hard fought for within her Cypriot Orthodox family - to fall into a traditional bush life with the man she loves and his wide and extended family, and their expectations and beliefs, in the remote outback. She explores and begins to understand what 'country' means through her love for a Walmajarri man and his tribe. How language and storytelling united the lovers and how cultural expectations kept them apart. She is challenged, she is accepted, she is loved. Will she make a life in the desert?
Im Jahr 1903 irrt die 19-jährige Mary nach dem Verlust ihres Kindes und dem Mord an ihrem untreuen Ehemann durch die Wälder Montanas. Getrieben von Verzweiflung und Mut flieht sie in die Wildnis, wo sie sich den Herausforderungen der Natur stellt und sich selbst neu entdeckt.
Lorna Martin's life is in chaos and she needs to make some big changes. After all, there must be a reason she keeps chasing after the wrong men, making toe-curling blunders at work and generally failing to keep her life on track. Egged on by her friends, she signs up for the talking cure: a year of therapy with the frosty Dr J. Along the way, she catches sight of the holy grail of true love in the shape of the gorgeous Dr McDreamy. But will Lorna find her own happy ending? With support (and not a little exasperation) from her friends and long-suffering sister, some serious setting-the-world-to-rights sessions involving too many bottles of wine, and the help of her inscrutable shrink, Lorna feels she might be getting her life together. Revealing, intimate and highly entertaining, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a must-read for any woman who loves the idea of being in love and worries about settling for second best.
„Die Männer werden hinter meinem Arsch herlaufen!“ beschließt die junge Magdalena, in einer sektiererischen Pfarrersfamilie geboren. Sie hat zwei Feinde: „den Tod und die Sünde“. Sie bekämpft sie mit anarchistischen Ideen, Sex, Drogen, einem Aufenthalt in einem indischen Aschram, dann ihrer Arbeit als Krankenschwester. Vergeblich! Nach einem fast tödlichen Unfall, einer Depression und einer Psychotherapie, trifft sie einen orthodoxen Mönch, der „einen langen, weißen lockigen Bart wie in den Märchen trug ...“ In diesem humorvollen Buch schildert Maria Andreas die Jugend der 70 Jahren, immer auf die Suche nach einer idealen Welt. Im Alter schlägt sie einen aussöhnenden, innerlichen Weg durch das ewige Leiden vor. Dazu enthüllt sie uns in diesen oft blinden Krisenzeiten das innige, verkannte Herz Griechenlands.
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