Books written by male authors (3596)
2011.
Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris EN
Country: South America / 
Guyana
Guyana
Description:
In his tale of a doomed crew beating their way up-river through the jungles of Guyana, first published in 1960, Wilson Harris revealed the unique poetic vision and laid out the themes and designs, not only of his famous work, The Guyana Quartet, but of all his future work. The Palace of the Peacock displays that vision in all its hallucinatory vividness, given additional impact by its rejection of the conventions of the twentieth-century novel and the uncompromising energy of its use of language in its response to character and landscape. The compelling adventure story of the narrative is para... continue
2012.
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz EN
EgyptDescription:
Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork. The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons—the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching in... continue
2013.
Palace: My Life in the Royal Family of Monaco by Christian Louis de Massy EN
MonacoDescription:
The nephew of Prince Rainier and Charles Higham, the bestselling author of The Duchess of Windsor, tell what really went on behind the glittering fairy tale walls of the palace. Brimming with scandal, romance, and treachery, this is a shocking memoir complete with candid photos.
2014.
Pale Fire by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov EN
RussiaDescription:
The famous American poet John Shade was murdered in 1959. This text contains his last poem, Pale Fire, together with a foreword by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
2015.
Palestine by Joe Sacco, Edward W. Said EN
MaltaDescription:
Based on years of research and extended visits to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, "Palestine" is the first major comics work of political nonfiction by Sacco.
2016.
Palestine : A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha EN
IsraelDescription:
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine's multicultural past has been distorted and mythologised by Biblical lore and the... continue
2017.
Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba by Mazen Maarouf, Tasnim Abutabikh, Emad El-Din Aysha, Selma Dabbagh, Saleem Haddad, Anwar Hamed, Majd Kayyal, etc EN
PalestineDescription:
Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches – from SF noi... continue
2018.
Palestinian Walks : Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh EN
Description:
“A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine.” —Jimmy Carter From Palestine’s leading writer, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man’s wanderings through the landscape he loves, once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls—now with a new afterword by the author. “I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the man who was doing all the talking and seemed to be the commander. “In fact I was once here with my wife, it was 1999, and some of your soldiers shot at us.” “It was over on that side,” the soldier pointed out. “I was there,” he said, smil... continue
2019.
Pálida luz en las colinas by Kazuo Ishiguro ES
JapanDescription:
Despus del suicidio de su hija mayor, Etsuko, una japonesa de cincuenta aos instalada en Inglaterra, rememora momentos de su vida. Quiz la explicacin de esta tragedia familiar se encuentre agazapada en aquel Japn de los aos cincuenta que se recuperaba de las heridas de la guerra y del traumatismo de la bomba atmica...En la memoria de Etsuko aparece - de forma obsesiva, recurrente - la imagen de otra mujer, Sachiko, una amiga y vecina que viva sola con su hija Mariko. Dos personajes enigmticos, a cul ms inquietante. La pequea Mariko parece haber vivido una cruel y dolorosa experiencia, que redu... continue
2020.
Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle EN
NepalDescription:
A journalist sits in a café waiting for his subject—an artist called Drishya about whom he wants to write a novel. But Drishya doesn’t come. For that morning he has been visited by Maoists at his home and abducted by them... So begins Palpasa Café, the extraordinary novel by Nepali journalist Narayan Wagle, which has become a sensation in the country. Starting with the murders of the royal family, it tells the troubled story of contemporary Nepal through the eyes of a romantic artist who falls in love, wanders the war-struck countryside and dreams of creating a café named after his beloved whi... continue