Books written by male authors (3630)



1042.

Freelander by Miljenko Jergovic ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
«Jergovic es un escritor épico.» Claudio Magris «Un libro sorprendente, emocionante, y al mismo tiempo cariñoso y tajante, sobre su país.» Süddeutsche Zeitung Un telegrama comunicándole la muerte de un anciano tío con el que no tenía contacto hace que Karlo Adum, un profesor de historia jubilado y viudo que trata de hacer frente a su patética soledad mediante la ironía y el cinismo, emprenda un viaje de Zagreb a Sarejevo. En su viejo Volvo del 75, su más preciada posesión, recorre un país ahora dividido en territorios croatas, bosnios y serbios. El viaje será a la vez un regreso metafórico a s... continue

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Freud's Sister : A Novel by Goce Smilevski EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp? The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund. Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog, and his wife's sister, but not any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín concentration camp, w... continue

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Friend : A Novel from North Korea by Paek Nam-nyong EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / North Korea flag North Korea
Description:
Paek Nam-nyong's Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea's most popular writers offers English-language readers a page-turner full of psychological tension as well as a revealing portrait of a society that is typically seen as closed to the outside world.

1045.

Friend of my Youth by Amit Chaudhuri EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
A novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the memory of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home.

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From a crooked rib by Nuruddin Farah EN

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Country: Africa / Somalia flag Somalia
Description:
Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of eighteen, runs away from her nomadic encampment in rural Somalia when she discovers that her grandfather has promised her in marriage to an older man. But even after her escape to Mogadishu, she finds herself as powerless and dependent on men as she was out in the bush. As she is propelled through servitude, marriage, poverty, and violence, Ebla has to... continue
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1047.

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
A scientist and members of a gun club decide they will build a spaceship that can reach the moon.

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From the Four Winds by Hayim Sabato EN

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Country: Africa / Egypt flag Egypt
Description:
Haim Sabato draws us into his childhood with this evocative rendering of his experiences as a young boy whose family immigrates to Israel in the 1950's, settling in a Ma'abara - a transit camp. He notices his fellow immigrants' concealment of their pasts. He accepts this secrecy, sensing that everything will reveal itself eventually. And this revelation does come, in the form of Farkash, a mysterious, dynamic man who takes Haim under his wing and gradually divulges to him his sorrowful, uplifting story, one that profoundly impacts Haim for the rest of his life...

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From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Myanmar flag Myanmar
Description:
A former Burma student rebel leader describes his tribal upbringing, experiences with political turmoil and poverty, participation in the insurrection of 1988, and flight to England, where he attended Cambridge University.

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From Timor Leste to Australia : Seven Families, Three Generations Tell Their Stories by Janet Trezise EN

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Country: Asia / Timor-Leste flag Timor-Leste
Description:
A collection of poignant stories and poems of seven East Timorese families living in Melbourne whose experiences belong to that long history of human tragedy created where violent conflict of power, land and resources takes place, inevitably visiting on ordinary people, disruption and loss. Since 1975 to 1999, men, women and children, and even grandparents, have been forced to flee their beloved homeland, their culture, their language, their families - - and the graves of those murdered in repeated massacres over those years. The East Timorese have a special place in our history: so close geog... continue