Books written by male authors (3565)
2051.
JapanDescription:
"Mr. Murakami’s novels are filled with entertaining psychopaths." -- The New York Times A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller, the basis of the major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska *One of Literary Hub's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"* Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over th... continue
2052.
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon EN
BelgiumDescription:
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian In Simenon’s iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces a fraudster’s true identity Inspector Jules Maigret, a taciturn detective and commissaire of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, receives notice from Interpol that a notorious conman known only as Peitr the Latvian is en route to France. Armed with a br... continue
2053.
Pig's Foot by Carlos Acosta EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
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Oscar Mandinga, great-grandchild of the founders of a small hamlet deep in the Cuban hinterland, is a sardonic teller of tales – some taller than others. But one day Oscar wakes to find himself utterly alone, the sole descendant of his family line. He is not sure what to do or where to go, but in the midst of this uncertainty, he holds fast to what his grandfather always told him: 'No man knows who he is until he knows his past.' So Oscar sets out to find his ancestral village and the meaning of the magical pig's-foot amulet he has inherited.
2054.
IrelandDescription:
La obra de teatro Pigmalión fue publicada en 1916 por George Bernard Shaw y está basada en el relato de Ovidio, Pigmalión. Shaw escribió esta obra en una época en que la fonética era un tema en auge; decía que el español y el alemán eran idiomas clarísimos que los extranjeros de dichas lenguas podían comprender, pero que el inglés era tan mal hablado por ellos que ni ellos mismos se entendían. La obra resulta didáctica, pero sin ser aburrida.
2055.
Pinball, 1973 by Haruki Murakami EN
Description:
Pinball, 1973 is a novel published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series, it is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase, and is the second novel written by Murakami.
2056.
Kyrgyzstan2057.
Platero Y Yo by Juan Ramón Jiménez EN
SpainDescription:
Presents a picture of life in the town of Moguer, in Andalusia, Spain, as seen through the eyes of a wandering poet and his faithful donkey.
2058.
Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio EN
ItalyDescription:
Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against e... continue
2059.
RomaniaDescription:
Bacovia cel adevărat e în poemele în care spiritul ”decadent” al simboliştilor francezi e absorbit de atmosfera apăsătoare şi sumbră a tristelor locuri unde nu s-a întâmplat nimic. El e întâiul mare poet al ”deznădejdii provinciale”, fără el n-ar fi de înţeles o întreagă literatură de după primul război. Bacovia reprezintă punctul cel mai înalt al simbolismului românesc, situându-se totodată, prin valoare, mai presus de simbolism şi de orice curent literar, în universalitate. Influenţa lui asupra po... continue
2060.
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov EN
RussiaDescription:
In this moving, amusing story of a seeming born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrecoverably severed from its past.