Books written by male authors (3564)



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Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan EN

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"This book traces of the rise, international growth, and plateau of the LGBTQ movement in Palestine. Sa'ed Atshan argues that queer Palestinian activists, even as they critique empire, are themselves subjected to an empire of critique. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique calls for a return to Palestine and ethnography, attention to the queer Palestinian experience on the ground in Palestine/Israel, and a greater awareness of the heterogeneity of LGBTQ Palestinian voices"--

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Quesadillas by Juan Pablo Villalobos EN

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Anarchy in Mexico - a comic novel about screwed-up politics and families from the author of 'Down the Rabbit Hole'. Orestes' mother prepares hundreds of quesadillas for Orestes and the rest of their brood. After another fraudulent election and the disappearance of his younger brothers, he takes to the road.

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Quichotte : A Novel by Salman Rushdie EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
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***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixotefor the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest... continue

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Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki EN

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Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art student and femme fatale Mitsuko, a woman so seductive and heartless she can even turn Sonoko's husband into her own accomplice. Filled with intrigue and treacherous romance, readers will be entranced by Tanizaki’s seminal novel. At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, Quicksand is “beautifully and mysterio... continue

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Quijote en el Congo by Xavier Aldekoa ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
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Esta es la historia de un sueño infantil convertido en obsesión adulta «Durante más de dos meses de navegación fui Sancho Panza. Como el escudero de la mayor novela de caballerías jamás escrita, fui testigo fascinado de aquel mundo desconocido que se abría ante mí, recorriendo un río quijotesco, casi místico, que se adentraba bravo y temerario en una selva infranqueable para construir a su paso una historia extraordinaria.» A lo largo de más de 4.700 kilómetros, el río Congo, esencia de la riqueza y las cicatrices de todo un continente, es una puerta abierta a la historia, la cultura y las tra... continue

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Quixotiq by Ali Al Saeed EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Bahrain flag Bahrain
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Guy Kelton is a young man with a troubled mind. His shattered dream and the relentless mundane life he's been living, alone and broken away from his family, takes an unexpected toll on him, driving him to violent, reckless extremes. He falls deeper and deeper into a bloody abyss; through extremes that would eventually lead him to the most devastating discovery about his existence. Going through his mid-twenties, Patrick Roymint, lost and confused, still struggles to come to terms with the loss of his whole family many years ago. But soon as he decides to change all that and try to rebuild the ... continue
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R.U.R. Rossum Universal Robots by Karel Čapek PT

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A phenomenal Czech science fiction play that introduced robots to modern literature. R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots explores the ethical implications behind humanity’s enslavement of a man-made race. Opening in the Roboti factory, this play poses moral and ethical questions as we watch humans create a new life form. R.U.R. are intelligent robots built with the ability to think, feel, and act as freely as humans, but they are being sold as servants. As the robots tire of their ill-treatment and begin to revolt, could humanity have created its own death sentence? First published in 1920, Kar... continue

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Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah EN

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A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. "Every story begins and ends with a woman, a mother, a grandmother, a girl, a child. Every story is a birth..." So begins Radiance of Tomorrow, Ishmael Beah's first novel, one dogged by memories of horror but glimmering with an improbable hope. When Beah ' s memoir, A Long Way Gone, was published in 2007, it soared to the top of bestseller lists, becoming an instant classic: a harrowing account of Sierra Leone ' s civil war and the fate of child soldiers that " everyone in the world should read " (Carolyn See, The ... continue

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Radio Congo : Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War by Ben Rawlence EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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In this extraordinary debut – called ‘gripping’ by The Times of London – Ben Rawlence sets out to gather the news from a forgotten town deep in Congo’s ‘silent quarter’ where peace is finally being built after two decades of civil war and devastation. Ignoring the advice of locals, reporters, and mercenaries, he travels by foot, bike, and boat, introducing us to Colonel Ibrahim, a guerrilla turned army officer; Benjamin, the kindly father of the most terrifying Mai Mai warlord; the cousins Mohammed and Mohammed, young tin traders hoping to make their fortune; and talk show host Mama Christine,... continue