Books written by male authors (3779)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
Hungary2226.
Colombia
North Macedonia2228.
Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
"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
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
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
Description:
***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