Books written by male authors (3474)


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Cloud Cuckoo Land : A Novel by Anthony Doerr EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
A "novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world who find resilience, hope, and story ... [They] are trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril"--

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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton EN

Rating: 3 (5 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh ... continue

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Cobalt Blue : A Novel by Sacina Kuṇḍalakara EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
This translation first published: New Delhi, India: Hamish Hamilton, 2013.


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Cobrar por estar de pie by Gauz ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Ivory Coast flag Ivory Coast
Description:
Esta novela de Gauz nos trae la historia de Ossiri, un estudiante marfileño empleado como vigilante después de haber aterrizado (sin papeles) en el París de los 90. Es un canto al honor de una familia, de una madre y de la comunidad africana de París, con sus imperfecciones, sus sufrimientos y sus diferencias. Es la historia política de un migrante, su mirada sobre Francia hasta el 11S. Es, en el fondo, una colección de las cosas vistas y oídas por el autor cuando trabajaba como vigilante en París. Una sátira de fibra social y m... continue

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Coconut by Kopano Matlwa EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
An important rumination on youth in modern-day South Africa, this haunting debut novel tells the story of two extraordinary young women who have grown up black in white suburbs and must now struggle to find their identities. The rich and pampered Ofilwe has taken her privileged lifestyle for granted, and must confront her swiftly dwindling sense of culture when her soulless world falls apart. Meanwhile, the hip and sassy Fiks is an ambitious go-getter desperate to leave her vicious past behind for the glossy sophistication of city life, but finds Johannesburg to be more complicated and unforgi... continue

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Coconut Milk by Dan Taulapapa McMullin EN

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Country: Oceania / Samoa flag Samoa
Description:
Coconut Milk is the first book-length collection of poems by contemporary queer Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin. His poems humorously attack cultural appropriation, gender, and the hypocrisies of Western influence in Oceania today. Pulling at the stereotype of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, his poems challenge and carve out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders.

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Colecţionarul by John Fowles RO

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Colectionarul, primul roman al lui John Fowles, este o carte cu o conceptie absolut originala, despre pasiunea unui functionar neinsemnat. Un tanar timid, asocial, el este usor-usor cuprins de nevinovata bucurie de a colectiona obiecte. Odata cu primirea unei mosteniri consistente, mica lui placere ia proportii si ajunge treptat sa-i domine viata. Destinul sau capata o intorsatura neobisnuita atunci cand rapeste si sechestreaza o studenta la Arte Frumoase, incercand sa stabileasca astfel o legatura afectiva imposibila intre el si victima.

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Collaborating with the Enemy : How to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust by Adam Kahane EN

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Collaboration is increasingly difficult and increasingly necessary Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we don’t agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it’s going, how it’s going to get there, and who needs to do what—is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collabor... continue

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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges EN

Rating: 5 (8 votes)
Description:
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who h... continue