Popular European Political Books
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Elliott, Jason EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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"Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of the capital, Kabul.
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To make this quintessential Greek drama more accessible to the modern reader, this Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition? includes a glossary of difficult terms, a list of vocabulary words, and convenient sidebar notes. By providing these, it is our intention that readers will more fully enjoy the beauty, wisdom, and intent of the play.The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles? classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebe... continue
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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon EN
FranceDescription:
Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. It is a very personal account of Fanon's experience being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.--Adapted from wikipedia.org.
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Bottled Goods by Sophie van Llewyn EN
RomaniaDescription:
When Alina's brother-in-law defects to the West, she and her husband become persons of interest to the secret services, causing both of their careers to come grinding to a halt. As the strain takes its toll on their marriage, Alina turns to her aunt for help the wife of a communist leader and a secret practitioner of the old folk ways. Set in 1970s communist Romania, Sophie van Llewyn's novella-in-flash draws upon magic realism to weave a tale of everyday troubles, that cant be put down.
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Café Europa Revisited : How to Survive Post-Communism by Slavenka Drakulić EN
CroatiaDescription:
"Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to." —The New Yorker An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europ... continue
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Como si yo no estuviera by Slavenka Drakulic ES
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S. es bosnia y está en un hospital de Estocolmo, donde ha dado a luz un niño. ¿Por qué sólo siente indiferencia, y hasta se imagina sofocándolo con una almohada? No quiere ni siquiera verlo, y antes de que naciera ya lo había dispuesto todo para darlo en adopción. Pero ella casi no habla sueco, se produce un malentendido y las enfermeras lo dejan a su lado. Aquello abre las puertas de la memoria y S., en la cama del hospital, recuerda el verano de 1992, cuando los soldados serbios ocuparon el pueblo en el que ella vivía y trabajaba... continue
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Comrade Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi EN
ItalyDescription:
Number 4 in the Don Camillo series, beloved by 23 million readers. When Peppone loses out to Don Camillo on a matter of conscience he must accept the battling priest's presence among a group of communist activists on a trip he is organising to Mother Russia. Travelling incognito, Don Camillo becomes the life and soul of the Party and picks off his totalitarian comrades one-by-one in a hilarious riot of shrewd manipulation. But then fate intervenes and the travellers discover a surprise common denominator more radical than any political ideology... 'Those who read The Little World of Don Camill... continue
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Dagboek Majdan by Andrej Jurʹevič Kurkov NL
UkraineDescription:
Dagboekfragmenten van de Oekraïense schrijver (1961) waarin hij een inkijkje geeft in zijn dagelijks leven ten tijde van de grootschalige Euromajdan-protesten in Kyiv van november 2013 tot en met april 2014.