Books written by male authors (3467)
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Voyage to Kazohinia by Sándor Szathmári EN
HungaryDescription:
A page-turning classic--comic, eerily timely--novel that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels
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Vuelo estático by Jaan Kross ES
EstoniaDescription:
Vuelo estático es, o debiera ser un libro de lectura para todos los estonios (si creyera en el valor de la obligatoriedad de la lectura de literatura).
La estructura es, a primera vista, sencillo: Sirkel, alter ego de Jaan Kross, nos cuenta la vida de Ullo Paerand. Muchas veces narrando las cosas que ha escuchado; otras dandole voz a Ullo en unas entrevistas pautadas para esta biografía.
En el trasfondo, la historia de Estonia, desde su declaración de la Independencia en 1918 hasta la década del '80, cuando se desarrollan las entrevistas; aunque con una mirad... continue
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Waiting For an Angel by Helon Habila EN
NigeriaDescription:
WAITING FOR AN ANGEL marks the debut of one of Africa's most promising new writers. Lomba is a young journalist living under military regime in Lagos, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. His mind is full of soul music and girls and thenovel he is writing. But his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers, his first love is forced to marry a man she doesn't love, and his neighbours are planning a demo which is bound to incite riot and arrests. Lomba can no longer bury his head in the sand. He must write the truth about this reign of terror . . . WAITING FOR AN ANGEL captures th... continue
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett EN
IrelandDescription:
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is one of the masterpieces of the century." The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own conscio... continue
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Waiting for Snow in Havana : Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
A survivor of the Cuban Revolution recounts his pre-war childhood as the religiously devout son of a judge, and describes the conflict's violent and irrevocable impact on his friends, family, and native home.
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Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's pr... continue
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Waiting for the Rain by Charles Mungoshi EN
ZimbabweDescription:
The award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi is recognised in Africa, and internationally, as one of the continent's most powerful writers today. This early novel deals with the pain and dislocation of the clash of the old and new ways - the educated young man determined to go overseas, and the elders of the family believing his duty is to stay and head the family.
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Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote by Ahmadou Kourouma EN
Country: Africa / 
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast
Description:
"Ahmadou Kourouma's remarkable novel is narrated by Bingo, a West African sora - storyteller and king's fool. Over the course of five nights he tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mystical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies, in Vietnam and Algeria, but on his return he mounts a coup and becomes ruler and distator of the Gulf Coast. For thrity years he runs a corrupt but 'clean' state, survi... continue
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Walking : A Novella by Thomas Bernhard EN
AustriaDescription:
"Walking records the conversations of the unnamed narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad."--Amazon.com.