Books written by male authors (2032)


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A River in Darkness : One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa EN

Rating: 5 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.

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A Set Of Six

A Set Of Six by Joseph Conrad EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ukraine flag Ukraine

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A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Description:
Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge?In A Short History of England, bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and many more - as he tells the tumultuous story of a fascinating nation. From the invaders of the dark ages to today's coalition, via the Tudors, the Stuarts and two world wars, Jenkins weaves together a gripping narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in his own inimitable style. Until now there has been no short history of England ... continue

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A Silent Fury : The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Mine fire industrial disaster nonfiction: from the author of Signs Preceding The End of The World

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A Strangeness in My Mind

A strangeness in my mind by Orhan Pamuk EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed via his cousin, she agrees to elope with him, and on a dark night the two come together for the first time. As they rush to catch a train to Istanbul, Mevlut realises he has been misled. But the die is cast, and the situation will determine the rest of his days. Over the next four decades in Istanbul, Mevlut works various jobs to support his loving wife and family; work that gives him a special perspective on his rapidly changing city and the people who live there. And ever... continue

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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Description:
The first of the Sherlock Holmes' adventures, this book introduces the great sleuth and explains how Dr. Watson and Holmes come to share rooms together and solve mysteries together.

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A su imagen by Jérôme Ferrari ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Premio Le Monde 2018 Premio Méditerranée 2019 Una joven fotógrafa muere repentinamente en un accidente en una carretera de Calvi, Córcega. El funeral será oficiado por su tío y padrino, quien pese a haberse prometido concentrarse plenamente en la liturgia, no podrá evitar que regresen a su mente imágenes de su sobrina: la niña fascinada por la fotografía, la adolescente seducida por un militante nacionalista, la prestigiosa fotógrafa de bodas o la periodista de un diario local que un día lo dejó todo para viajar a Yugoslavia durante la guerra. En esta aclamada obra, el ganador del premio Gonco... continue
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A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boy remains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of l... continue


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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahimi EN

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Country: Asia / Afghanistan flag Afghanistan
Description:
Farhad is a typical student, interested in wine, women & poetry. But one night changes all that. It is 1979 & Afghanistan is in the early days of the pro-Soviet coup. Farhad goes out drinking with a friend who is about to flee to Pakistan. A few hours later he regains consciousness in a strange house, beaten & confused.
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