Political genre books (205)


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Where the Air is Clear by Carlos Fuentes EN

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Description:
"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies. First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1988, Dalkey Archive Press in 2004, now available again.

202.

White Shroud by Antanas Škėma EN

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Country: Europe / Poland flag Poland
Description:
Considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction, this novel tells the story of Antanas Garsva, an emigre poet working as an elevator operator in a large New York hotel in the 1950s.


204.

Wij slaven van Suriname by Cornelis Gerard Anton Kom NL

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Description:
Geschiedenis van het lot van de slaven in Suriname en hun bestaan na de afschaffing van de slavernij (1863), beschreven door een Surinamer, die om zijn politieke activiteiten uit Suriname verbannen werd.

205.

Zeit der Nordwanderung by Tajjib Salich DE

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Sudan flag Sudan
Description:
Tajjib Salichs erster Roman machte ihn über Nacht berühmt und das Buch wurde zum Kultbuch der arabischen Intellektuellen.