Books written by male authors (3564)
2091.
IrelandDescription:
'IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT'S PAUL LYNCH'S PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish... continue
2092.
Proyecto Hail Mary by Andy Weir ES
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
UNA MISIÓN IMPOSIBLE. UN ALIADO QUE JAMÁS HABRÍA IMAGINADO. Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán. Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo. Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar, sin más compañía que la de dos cadáveres.
2093.
Ukraine2094.
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam EN
Country: North America / 
Haiti
Haiti
Description:
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of the Noughts & Crosses series and The Hate U Give.
2095.
Purgatory: A Novel by Tomás Eloy Martínez EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Simón Cardoso had been dead for thirty years when Emilia Dupuy, his wife, found him at lunchtime in the dining room of Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory, the final and perhaps most personal work of the great Latin American novelist Tomás Eloy Martínez. Emilia Dupuy's husband vanished in the 1970s, while the two were mapping an Argentine country road. All evidence seemed to confirm that he was among the thousands disappeared by the military regime. Yet Emilia never stopped believing that the disappeared man would reappear. And then he does, in New Jersey. And for Simón, no time at all has pass... continue
2096.
IndiaDescription:
Saroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan's village, harbouring the dangerous secret that their marriage is an intercaste one, likely to anger the villagers should they learn of it. Kumaresan is confident that all will be well. He naively believes that after the initial round of curious questions, the inquiries will die down and the couple will be left alone. But nothing is further from the truth. The villagers strongly suspect that Saroja must belong to a different caste. It is only a matter of time before their suspicions harden into certainty and, out... continue
2097.
Description:
Arrested for unbelievably answering all twelve questions on the Indian game show "Who Will Win a Billion?" semi-literate waiter Ram Mohammad Thomas explains to his lawyer how he knew the answer to each question due to events in his personal life, from a past meeting with a zealous Australian army colonel to his tour guide job at the Taj Mahal. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
2098.
Quantas madrugadas tem a noite by Ondjaki PT
AngolaDescription:
Em 'Quantas madrugadas tem a noite', o jovem escritor angolano Ondjaki conta várias histórias em uma, que são relatadas ao estilo da linguagem angolana - alegre e rica em imagens. O protagonista é um morto - AdolfoDido - que acaba por ser preso pela kabomba (polícia) e é disputado por duas viúvas ditas legítimas. Fala-se, ainda, da criação de um sindicato muito especial, o SNP. À medida que apresenta seu elenco de personagens peculiares, Ondjaki deixa transparecer suas reflexões sobre os tugas (portugueses), racismo e mesmo Jesus Cristo.
Hungary2100.
Colombia