Books written by male authors (3498)
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Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink DE
GermanyDescription:
Sie ist reizbar, rätselhaft und viel älter als er ... und sie wird seine erste Leidenschaft. Sie hütet verzweifelt ein Geheimnis. Eines Tages ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Erst Jahre später sieht er sie wieder. Die fast kriminalistische Erforschung einer sonderbaren Liebe und bedrängenden Vergangenheit.
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Der zerrissene April by Ismail Kadare DE
AlbaniaDescription:
Ismail Kadare erzählt die Geschichte der albanischen Blutrache, die gemäß einem tausendjährigen Gesetz noch bis in die siebziger Jahre gültig war und öffnet uns eine Welt von Legenden und Mythen, die sonst nirgends auf der Welt mehr existieren.
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Descent into Night by Edem Awumey EN
TogoDescription:
With a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. Edem Awumey gives us a darkly moving and terrifying novel about fear and play, repression and protest, and the indomitable nature of creativity.
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Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
Considerada por muchos como la obra maestra de J.M.Coetzee hasta la fecha.
Novela sobre la nueva Sudafrica y retrato de una sociedad en estado de violenta metamorfosis, esta obra aborda cuestiones politicas y personales con una hondura solo al alcance de los grandes.
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Despair by Vladimir Nabokov EN
RussiaDescription:
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder.
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Despre ploaie by Martin Page RO
FranceDescription:
"Se mai intampla sa ne indragostim de un fenomen al naturii. Byron a mangaiat un fulger, Li Po a imbratisat oglindirea lunii in apa, Shelley a adormit printre valuri, iar Empedocle s-a imbatat cu lava. Ploaia ne cade in brate, ne saruta si ne paraseste. Ca o amanta, intermitenta din fire, ea vine cand nu ne asteptam. Ea distruge orele triste. Frumusetea ploii sta in caracterul ei imprevizibil. De fiecare data, atingerea ei ma surprinde, mi se face pielea de gaina. Nu va fi nici un divort. Sotie credincioasa, ploaia e cu noi pretutindeni. La capatul zilelor, o regasim in picaturile din per... continue
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Detective Nosegood and the Museum Robbery by Marian Ortan EN
PolandDescription:
The third in a series of irresistibly charming, beautifully illustrated children's classics - the adventures of Detective Nosegoode and his talking dog, Cody. A famous picture is in danger of being stolen, the headquarters of the Circle of the Aficionados of Checkers has been robbed and an elusive pickpocket strikes at the celebrations to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of Lower Limewood. This small town seems to have a attracted quite a number of thieves - a good job they can count the brilliant Detective Nosegoode and his faithful Cody among their residents.
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Portugal679.
Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o EN
KenyaDescription:
This remarkable and symbolic novel centers on Wariinga's tragedy and uses it to tell a story of contemporary Kenya.
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Devil's Valley by André Brink EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
Description:
A reporter in South Africa discovers a lost valley whose inhabitants continue to practice apartheid. They are the descendants of an 1880s fundamentalist Christian sect and they have managed to maintain their isolation by murdering visitors. A satire on Afrikaner culture by the author of A Dry White Season.