Books written by male authors (3573)


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No llores, pequeño by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Kenya flag Kenya
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Ambientada en la Kenia colonial durante el periodo de la Rebelión del Mau Mau, No llores, pequeño retrata la desigualdad que sufren los desposeídos africanos y enfatiza las consecuencias de la lucha contra el dominio blanco. Dos hermanos, Njoroge y Kamau, sentados sobre un montón de basura, reflexionan sobre su futuro: Njoroge irá a la escuela, mientras que Kamau se formará como carpintero. Pero esto es Kenia y la realidad juega en contra de sus deseos: en los bosques, el Mau Mau libra una guerra contra el gobierno blanco, y ambos hermanos, junto con... continue

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No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe EN

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Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
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“A magical writer—one of the greatest of the twentieth century.” —Margaret Atwood “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison A classic story of moral struggle in an age of turbulent social change and the final book in Chinua Achebe’s The African Trilogy When Obi Okonkwo, grandson of Okonkwo, the main character in Things Fall Apart returns to Nigeria from England in the 1950s, his foreign education separates him from his African roots. No Longer at Ease, the third and concluding novel in Chinua Achebe’s The African Trilogy, depicts the ... continue

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No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai EN

Rating: 4 (10 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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Now in a retro gift cloth edition, No Longer Human ponders profound alienation: Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

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No Past, No Present, No Future by Yulisa Amadu Maddy EN

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At a missionary school in colonial West Africa, three students from very different backgrounds forge a friendship in an effort to forget the difficulties they face at home. But when one of the boys betrays the other, a series of disastrous events spiral into out of control. After finally leaving school, their paths cross once again in Europe but prejudice and diverging loyalties put the brotherhood they once had into question. How can they ever dream of a future together when the ghosts of the past are determined to haunt their present?
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No Presents Please by Jayant Kaikini EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
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No Presents Please is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub-locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small-town migrants. Jayant Kaikini's gaze takes in the people living on the margins - a bus driver who, when denied annual leave, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit's end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. From Irani cafes to chawls, old cinema halls to local trains, the author seeks out and illuminates moments and feelings of existential anxiety, path... continue

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No Saints Or Angels by Ivan Klíma EN

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Ivan Klima has created a remarkable portrayal of a woman striving to be both lover and mother, to unravel her father's secret past, and to protect her daughter in the nihilist present. Both a striking statement on the universal struggle between parents and children and a portrait of the chaos as a newly free society attempts to define itself.

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Noah's Child by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt EN

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Country: Europe / France flag France
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From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi occupation. It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is... continue
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Noapte de Sânziene by Mircea Eliade RO

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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Acest roman constituie poate proiectul cel mai ambiţios al lui Mircea Eliade, acela de a configura un Zeitgeist, plasându-se astfel alături de romancieri europeni redutabili. Romanul recapitulează toate temele esenţiale pentru opera lui Eliade, teme care-şi găsesc ecoul atât în proza şi dramaturgia sa cât şi în opera ştiinţifică sau în publicistică. În acelaşi timp, romanul reprezintă un mare semn de adio, este un roman al despărţirilor, al rupturilor, al unei lumi dispărute care va continua să-l obsedeze pe scriitor şi asupra căreia acesta va mai reve... continue

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Noapte de Sânziene II

Noapte de Sânziene II by Mircea Eliade RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
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Prin tema care-i conferă şi titlul, romanul pare să-şi aibă sursa în perioada portugheză, aşa cum menţionează Eliade în Jurnal, în 21 iunie 1949: „Solstiţiul de vară şi noaptea de Sânziene îşi păstrează, pentru mine, toate farmecele şi toate prestigiile. Se întâmplă ceva şi ziua aceasta mi se pare nu numai cea mai lungă, ci, pur şi simplu, alta decât cea de ieri sau cea de mâine. Cândva, în Portugalia, imaginasem un fel de poveste cu miracolul regenerării şi tinereţii veşnice dobândite într-o noapte de Sâ... continue

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Nobber by Oisín Fagan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 'A writer out to do whatever the hell he wants . . . a grisly, gross-out slice of medieval life and death, it's vigorously, writhingly itself, spilling out of any box you put it in' Observer 'A dark and bloody tale, well leavened with bone-dry humour, and with a dramatic climax that has about it the flavour of a Jacobean tragedy' Guardian 'Set to become an Irish cult classic' Sunday Business Post 'A tremendously engaging and fun read . . . a crazed, quixotic odyssey' Kevin Barry An ambitious noble a... continue
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