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"Unformed Landscape" begins in a small village on a fjord in the
Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders
between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and
darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer
and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like
Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half
Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the customs office
inspecting the fishing boats arriving regularly in the harbor. She
is in her late 20s, has a son from an early marriage, and has
drifted into a second loveless marriage to a man whose cold and
dominating conventionality forms a bold stroke through the unformed
landscape of her life. After she makes a discovery about her
husband that deeply wounds her, Kathrine cuts loose from her
moorings and her confusion and sets off in search of herself.
A man and a woman meet in a park. The man has a story to share, one of a past relationship that contains echoes, similarities to the woman's life too remarkable to be considered just a coincidence. And so the lines of reality begin to blur. Is the man a warning from the future? Is the woman destined to repeat the same mistakes? Who really exists? Is there such thing as fate?
A new novel of artful understatement about mortality, estrangement,
and the absurdity of life from the acclaimed author of "Unformed
Landscape" and "In Strange Gardens"
Gillian seems to have it all - she is beautiful, successful, and securely married. But one night, after an argument with her husband, their car crashes on a wet road, and everything is lost. When she wakes in the hospital, she is a widow with a ruined face and no way back to the person she thought she was. It is only when she begins to piece together the painful shards of her present existence and revisit a relationship from her past that she is able to glimpse the freedom that might come with her loss. From the master of unadorned storytelling, All Days Are Night is a quietly disquieting exploration of identity, inside and out.
After returning from a pleasant holiday with his wife, Astrid, and their two children, Thomas walks out the front door. Thomas walks up the street. Thomas keeps walking. Astrid gradually realizes that her husband has not just gotten up early to go to work. She waits for as long as she can and then puts as much energy as she can into trying to find him - coming to understand, along the way, that there is little she can do if Thomas is striving to stay lost. In precise and hypnotic prose that cuts as cleanly as a scalpel, To the Back of Beyond is a novel that takes away the safe foundations of a marriage and a lifestyle to ask deeper questions about identity, connection and how free we are to change our lives. It is a graceful and resonant work from one of Europe's most important writers.
Alex has spent the majority of his adult life between two very
different women--and he can't make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and
business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent,
gorgeous, charming, and ambitious, she worked tirelessly alongside
him to open their architecture firm and to build a life of luxury.
But when the seven-year itch sets in, their exhaustion at working
long hours coupled with their failed attempts at starting a family
get the best of them. Alex soon finds himself kindling an affair
with his college lover, Ivona. The young Polish woman who worked in
a Catholic mission is the polar opposite of Sonia: dull, passive,
taciturn, and plain. Despite having little in common with Ivona,
Alex is inexplicably drawn to her while despising himself for it.
Torn between his highbrow marriage and his lowbrow affair, Alex is
stuck within a spiraling threesome. But when Ivona becomes
pregnant, life takes an unexpected turn, and Alex is puzzled more
than ever by the mysteries of his heart.
With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of
the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life.
Un pueblo noruego al norte del crculo polar. Aqu, en los confines del mundo, vive Kathrine, empleada en la aduana. Tiene veintiocho aos y un hijo de su primer matrimonio. Da tras da controla los barcos de pesca que llegan al puerto. Slo se rompe esta oscura monotona en los das de abril, cuando por fin el sol esparce de nuevo su luz difusa sobre el vasto paisaje nevado.
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich VWL - Makrookonomie, allgemein, Note: 2,0, Universitat zu Koln (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Zusammenfassung: Schon sehr lange ist die Freistellung des Existenzminimums von der Einkommensteuer gefordert worden, doch es bedurfte einer Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, um diese Forderung gesetzlich umzusetzen. In der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit werden dazu verschiedene Aspekte betrachtet: Zum einen wird der 1996 in Kraft getretene Einkommensteuertarif mit seinem Vorgangertarif aus dem Jahre 1990 verglichen und im Hinblick auf Verteilungswirkungen analysiert. Zum anderen werden drei grundsatzlich mogliche Freistellungsmethoden vorgestellt und verglichen. Dabei konnen in der Literatur und der politischen Diskussion weit verbreitete Missverstandnisse uber die Belastungswirkungen von Nullzonentarifen und Grundfreibetragen ausgeraumt werden. Es wird gezeigt, dass mit allen drei Freistellungsmethoden in statischer Sicht die gleiche Steuerlastverteilung erzielt werden kann. Es werden aber auch Unterschiede in dynamischer Betrachtungsweise aufgezeigt, die eine Freistellung des Existenzminimums mittels eines Freibetrages vorteilhaft erscheinen lassen. Im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit werden weiterhin die Grundzuge und Prinzipien der deutschen Einkommensteuer dargelegt sowie Methoden der Tarifanalyse vorgestellt und angewandt. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Inhaltsverzeichnis: TabellenverzeichnisII AbbildungsverzeichnisIII Abkurzungs- und SymbolverzeichnisV 1.Einleitung1 2.Schutz des Existenzminimums3 2.1Begriff "Existenzminimum"3 2.2Hohe des steuerlichen Existenzminimums4 2.2.1Grundzuge der Sozialhilfe.5 2.2.2Ermittlung aus Sozialleistungsdaten7 2.2.3Spielraum bei der Festlegung9 3.Grundzuge der deutschen Einkommensteuer11 3.1Besteuerungsprinzipien11 3.1.1Aquivalenzprinzip12 3.1.2Leistungsfahigkeitsprinzip13 3.2Ermittlung der Steuerbemessungsgrundlage zur Schaffung horizontaler Gerechtigkeit13 3.2.1Einkommen od
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