Books written by male authors (3597)


1871.

Noah's Child by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
From one of the world's biggest selling authors comes another million-copy worldwide bestseller: A beautiful and tender fable seen through the eyes of a Jewish child living in Belgium under the Nazi occupation. It is 1942 and the Jews are being deported from Belgium. Separated from his parents, seven-year-old Joseph must go into hiding. He is taken in the dead of night to an orphanage, the Villa Jaune, where the benign and enigmatic Father Pons presides over a motley assortment of children. With the ever-present threat of the Gestapo growing closer, Joseph learns that the secret of survival is... continue
Genre

1872.

Noapte de Sânziene by Mircea Eliade RO

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Acest roman constituie poate proiectul cel mai ambiţios al lui Mircea Eliade, acela de a configura un Zeitgeist, plasându-se astfel alături de romancieri europeni redutabili. Romanul recapitulează toate temele esenţiale pentru opera lui Eliade, teme care-şi găsesc ecoul atât în proza şi dramaturgia sa cât şi în opera ştiinţifică sau în publicistică. În acelaşi timp, romanul reprezintă un mare semn de adio, este un roman al despărţirilor, al rupturilor, al unei lumi dispărute care va continua să-l obsedeze pe scriitor şi asupra căreia acesta va mai reve... continue

1873.
Noapte de Sânziene II

Noapte de Sânziene II by Mircea Eliade RO

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
Prin tema care-i conferă şi titlul, romanul pare să-şi aibă sursa în perioada portugheză, aşa cum menţionează Eliade în Jurnal, în 21 iunie 1949: „Solstiţiul de vară şi noaptea de Sânziene îşi păstrează, pentru mine, toate farmecele şi toate prestigiile. Se întâmplă ceva şi ziua aceasta mi se pare nu numai cea mai lungă, ci, pur şi simplu, alta decât cea de ieri sau cea de mâine. Cândva, în Portugalia, imaginasem un fel de poveste cu miracolul regenerării şi tinereţii veşnice dobândite într-o noapte de Sâ... continue

1874.

Nobber by Oisín Fagan EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
Description:
LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 'A writer out to do whatever the hell he wants . . . a grisly, gross-out slice of medieval life and death, it's vigorously, writhingly itself, spilling out of any box you put it in' Observer 'A dark and bloody tale, well leavened with bone-dry humour, and with a dramatic climax that has about it the flavour of a Jacobean tragedy' Guardian 'Set to become an Irish cult classic' Sunday Business Post 'A tremendously engaging and fun read . . . a crazed, quixotic odyssey' Kevin Barry An ambitious noble a... continue
Genre

1875.

Nocturno de Chile by Roberto Bolaño ES

0 Ratings
Description:
Sebastián Urrutia Lacroix, sacerdote del Opus Dei, crítico literario y poeta mediocre, revisa su vida en una noche de fiebre alta en la que cree que va a morir. Y en su delirio febril van apareciendo Jünger y un pintor guatemalteco que se deja morir de in

1876.

Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) by Jose Rizal EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
The great novel of the Philippines In more than a century since its appearance, José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines. A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, "The Noli," as it is called in the Philippines, was the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscience—and martyr—for the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher... continue

1877.

Norte: A Novel by Edmundo Paz Soldán EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
This “impressive and multifaceted novel” explores the lives of an artist, a savant, and a serial killer as they cross the Mexico-US border (Times Literary Supplement, UK). Three unconnected people travel north, each passing in isolation over one of the most troubled and controversial dividing lines in the world: the Mexico?US border. But in a melee of language and blood, their stories and the stories of those they meet—of a young serial killer; a waitress and graphic novelist and her lover (and former professor); and an outsider artist in a mental institution—gradually begin to coalesce. Darin... continue
Genre

1878.

North of Dawn : A Novel by Nuruddin Farah EN

0 Ratings
Country: Africa / Somalia flag Somalia
Description:
A couple's tranquil life abroad is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of their son's widow and children, in the latest from Somalia's most celebrated novelist. For decades, Gacalo and Mugdi have lived in Oslo, where they've led a peaceful, largely assimilated life and raised two children. Their beloved son, Dhaqaneh, however, is driven by feelings of alienation to jihadism in Somalia, where he kills himself in a suicide attack. The couple reluctantly offers a haven to his family. But on arrival in Oslo, their daughter-in-law cloaks herself even more deeply in religion, while her children h... continue

1879.

North to Paradise : A Memoir by Ousman Umar EN

0 Ratings
Country: Africa / Ghana flag Ghana
Description:
The inspiring true story of one man's treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona--and the path that led him home. Ousman Umar is a shaman's son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields, setting traps in the jungle, and living off the land. Still, as strange and wondrous flying machines crisscrossed the skies overhead, Ousman dreamed of a different life. And so, when he was only twelve years old, he left his village and began what would be a five-year journey to Europe. Eve... continue

1880.

Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
Sheldon Horowitz - 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable - is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind. He'd heard the boy's eastern European mother being murdered, and he's determined to protect the child from the killer and his Balkan gang. Wit... continue