Books written by male authors (3555)


1031.

Fundação by Isaac Asimov PT

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Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
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LEIA ANTES A SAGA ÉPICA QUE INSPIROU A NOVA SÉRIE DA APPLE TV+, FUNDAÇÃO, QUE ESTREIA EM SETEMBRO DE 2021 +Obra-prima de Isaac Asimov, a trilogia da Fundação recebeu o histórico prêmio Hugo de Melhor série de ficção científica e fantasia de todos os tempos. O trabalho confirmou seu autor como um dos maiores escritores do gênero e influenciou outras mentes geniais, como Carl Sagan, George Lucas e o Nobel de economia Paul Krugman. Há doze mil anos, o Império Galáctico reina, absoluto, sobre todos os mundos habitados. Mas esse reinado ignora um futuro terrível: uma crise levará a humanidade a uma... continue

1032.

Funny Boy : A Novel by Shyam Selvadurai EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Sri Lanka flag Sri Lanka
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A coming of age story about Arjun Chelvaratnam, who struggles with his homosexuality, entering into an affair with a schoolmate and breaking not only sexual taboos, but also social structures that separate the Tamil and Sinhalese.

1033.

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
Description:
Ilhéus in 1925 is a booming town with a record cacao crop and aspirations for progress, but the traditional ways prevail. When Colonel Mendonça discovers his wife in bed with a lover, he shoots and kills them both. Political contests, too, can be settled by gunshot... No one imagines that a bedraggled migrant worker who turns up in town–least of all Gabriela herself–will be the agent of change. Nacib Saad has just lost the cook at his popular café and in desperation hires Gabriela. To his surprise she turns out to be a great beauty as well as a wonderful cook and an enchanting boon to his busi... continue

1034.

Gaia, Queen of Ants by Hamid Ismailov EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Uzbekistan flag Uzbekistan
Description:
From Uzbek author-in-exile Hamid Ismailov comes a dark new parable of power, corruption, fraud, and deception. Ismailov narrates an intimate clash of civilizations as he follows the lives of three expatriates living in England. Domrul is a young Turk with vague and painful memories of ethnic strife in the Uzbekistan of his childhood. His Irish girlfriend Emer struggles with her own adolescent trauma from growing up in war-torn Bosnia. Domrul is the caretaker for Gaia, the eighty-year-old, powerful wife of a Soviet party boss with a mysterious past. One of Ismailov’s few novels written in Uzbek... continue

1035.

Galaxias como granos de arena by Brian W. Aldiss ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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He aquí la historia de la humanidad desde un futuro muy cercano hasta los últimos días de nuestro universo. A lo largo de incontables milenios, episodios de la vida de seres humanos concretos sirven para mostrarnos cómo van cambiando el mundo y la gente, cómo los ciclos evolutivos y involutivos culturales y genéticos hacen su trabajo. Asistimos a guerras nucleares, a periodos de extrema escasez de alimentos, a la presencia asfixiante de todo tipo de máquinas, al ingreso de la Tierra en una sociedad galáctica mucho más avanzada que la nuestra y, finalmente, no solo a la sustitución de la humani... continue

1036.

Galileo by Bertolt Brecht EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Dramatizes Galileo's conflict with the church over his assertion that the Earth revolves around the sun.

1037.

Games Without Rules by Tamim Ansary EN

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Country: Asia / Afghanistan flag Afghanistan
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism. That war is real; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and chaos, between a modernist impulse to join the world and the pull of an older Afghanistan: a tribal universe of village republics permeated by Islam. Now, Tamim Ansary draws on his Afghan background, Muslim roots, and Western and Afghan sources to explain history from the inside out, and to illuminate the long, internal struggle that the outside world has never fully understood.... continue

1038.

Gárgaras con alquitrán by Jáchym Topol ES

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En el Hogar, un orfanato situado en el interior de la Checoslovaquia precomunista, a los niños que mienten les obligan a hacer gárgaras con jabón de alquitrán. Ilja lo sabe mejor que nadie, por eso su historia sólo puede ser verdad. Con la llegada de los comunistas, la guerra penetra en el interior del hogar Hogar, arrastrando a sus ocupantes hacia una espiral de violencia capaz de diluir los límites de la realidad. Ilja logra sobrevivir a todo lo que ocurre a su alrededor gracias al factor suerte y a su entrenamiento militar. Lo más sorprendent... continue

1039.

Gedichte by Octavio Paz DE

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Belletristik : Mexiko/Indien/England ; Lyrik.