Political genre books (296)


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Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests. The text is highly critical of the French government, and as a result its publication in Tahiti was polarising.


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Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel EN

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Description:
David Baddiel examines the -ism that woke culture and identity politics leave behind: antisemitism. Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you. It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel's contention that one type of racism has been left out of this fight. In his unique combination of reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes, Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the hist... continue

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July's People by Nadine Gordimer EN

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“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the ruling minority For years, it had been what is called a “deteriorating situation.” Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his village. What happens to the Smaleses and... continue

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Kaffir Boy : The True Story Of A Black Youths Coming Of Age In Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane EN

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Description:
A Black writer describes his childhood in South Africa under apartheid and recounts how Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith helped him leave for America on a tennis scholarship

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Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.

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Kassandra by Christa Wolf DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Kassandra, die äSeherinä, ist die schillerndste Frauenfigur der griechischen Mythologie. Sie sagte dem übermächtigen Troja den Untergang voraus und musste ihre Prophezeiung mit dem Leben bezahlen.

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Kaya Days by Carl de Souza EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Mauritius flag Mauritius
Description:
"Set in Mauritius during the uprising following the death of the Mauritian musician Kaya, Kaya Days tells the story of a young woman's daylong search for her younger brother who has gone missing"--


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Kroongetuige : een ooggetuigenverslag uit de hel van de Chinese concentratiekampen

Kroongetuige : een ooggetuigenverslag uit de hel van de Chinese concentratiekampen by Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius NL

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Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
Persoonlijk relaas van een mensenrechtenactiviste die een van China's 'heropvoedingskampen' in Xinjiang overleefde.