Books written by male authors (3564)
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Red Crosses by Sasha Filipenko EN
BelarusDescription:
“Lays bare the . . . history of a ruthless Russian state with the story of an unlikely friendship between a young widower and a survivor of Stalin’s gulag.” —Publishers Weekly Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity. One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from Alzheimer’s. Every day, she loses a few more of her irreplaceable memories. Alexander is a young father whose life has been brut... continue
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Red Gas : A Novel by Eduard Vladimirovich Topelberg EN
Country: Asia / 
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Description:
North Siberia: The huge gas line to Western Europe is in the last stages of construction. Soviet Prestige and a mammoth financial investment are at stake. Ten Days before the official inauguration there's a break-out from a labour camp. Two top officials are found gruesomely murdered. For Anna Kovina of the Criminal Investigation Department, the pressure is on to close the case before all hell breaks loose. But nothing is as it seems, and Anna's investigations uncover a dangerous world where high technology and higher finance clash with the ancient forces of primitive belief. And Ann... continue
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IcelandDescription:
Gunnar Kampen grows up in Iceland during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. At nineteen he seems set for a conventional, dutiful life. And yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party, a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.
Inspired by one of the ringleaders of a little-known neo-Nazi group that was formed in Iceland in the 1950s, Sjon's portrait of an ardent fascist is as thought-provoking as it is disturbing. As this taut and fascinating novel suggests, the se... continue
2134.
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.
2135.
Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado EN
SpainDescription:
Introducing Antonia Scott—the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander—in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a ch... continue
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Reden An Den Kleinen Mann by Wilhelm Reich DE
UkraineDescription:
Listen, Little Man! (Reden An Den Kleinen Mann) is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted... continue
2137.
Sri LankaDescription:
A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published
2138.
Reflections from Prison: 20 Years and 20 Days by Shin Young-bok EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Reflections from Prison is the collected letters and essays written by renowned Korean thinker Shin Young-Bok during his 20 years and 20 days as a political prisoner on a life tariff under Korea's military dictatorships. The letters range from postcards, to tiny characters squeezed onto his daily ration of two sheets of toilet paper. The writings themselves are not overtly political since all the letters went through censorships Yet he does not hide the harshness of prison life at the rock bottom of society. They provide a window onto his personal suffering during imprisonment a life sentence,... continue
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Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus EN
AlgeriaDescription:
Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.
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Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler DE
AustriaDescription:
"Reigen" ist ein Bühnenstück von Arthur Schnitzler. Die Uraufführung fand am 23. Dezember 1920 am Kleinen Schauspielhaus in Berlin statt und war einer der größten Theaterskandale des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Stück schildert in zehn erotischen Dialogen die "unerbittliche Mechanik des Beischlafs" (der im Stück selbst nicht gezeigt wird) und sein Umfeld von Macht, Verführung, Sehnsucht, Enttäuschung und das Verlangen nach Liebe. Es zeichnet ein Bild der Moral in der Gesellschaft des Fin de siècle und durchwandert dabei in einem Reigen alle sozialen Schichten vom Proletariat bis zur Aristokratie. Das... continue