Books written by male authors (3593)
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Relato soñado by Arthur Schnitzler ES
AustriaDescription:
«—No te me escaparás. Tienes que llevarme.
—Pero amigo…
—Déjame a mí el resto. Ya sé que es “peligroso”… quizá sea eso lo que me atrae.»
Quien habla así es Fridolin, un joven médico vienés, acomodado, felizmente casado y padre de una niña, que durante unos carnavales se siente misteriosamente arrastrado hacia lo desconocido, un mundo a medio camino entre el sueño y la vigilia, en el que, atrapado por el deseo, vivirá experiencias de extraña y fascin... continue
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Relatos de mar y tierra by Álvaro Mutis ES
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Relatos de mar y de tierra agrupa una serie de obras breves publicadas por Alvaro Mutis a lo largo de varios años, y constituye una buena introducción a su obra (aunque es una selección de lo mejor).
Como toda recopilación tiene cierta irregularidad de estilo, calidad e interés, pero en general se trata de una buena obra. Destaco El último rostro (que inspiró El general en su laberinto, García Márquez) y La mansión de Araucaíma, una novela corta de estilo gótico.
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Remembering Babylon : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) by David Malouf EN
AustraliaDescription:
Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a... continue
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing : A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto EN
JapanDescription:
Profiled in The Times, The Independent and by BBC Reels I’m starting a service . . . available for any situation in which all you want is a person to be there. Maybe there’s a restaurant you want to go to, but you feel awkward going on your own. Maybe a game you want to play, but you’re one person short. Or perhaps you’d like someone to keep a space in the park for your cherry blossom viewing party . . . Shoji Morimoto was constantly being told by his boss that he contributed nothing to the company he worked for and that it made no difference whether he showed up or not. He began to wonder whe... continue
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NorwayDescription:
Tor Ulven is one of the most renowned Norwegian authors of the twentieth century, beginning his career writing poetry and ending it with unclassifiable explorations of the possibilities of prose, reminiscent of writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Handke. Replacement, his only novel, published two years before Ulven's suicide, is a miniature symphony, wherein the perspectives of unrelated characters are united into what seems a single narrative voice: each personality, directing the book in turn; each replacing its predecessor and forming another link in a chain leading nowhere. These p... continue
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Réquiem por el este by Andreï Makine ES
RussiaDescription:
El narrador de esta perturbadora historia es el adolescente huřfano, varios aǫs despuš, cuando, convertido en mďico militar, presta sus servicios informando en lfrica del trf̀ico de armas entre Oriente y Occidente. La novela se convierte as ̕en un tributo al destino absurdo de todos esos seres que son vc̕timas de la Historia. Y a la vez, en un homenaje a la compaęra que durante aǫs trabaj ̤al lado del narrador, y la que dirige este impresionante rq̌uiem por todo un siglo de penalidades.
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Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson EN
Country: Africa / 
Madagascar
Madagascar
Description:
In this exhilarating prize-winning novel--only the second to be published in English from Madagascar--a young man comes of age amidst the enchanted origin myths of his island country. Named after the first man at the creation of the world in Malagasy mythology, Ietsy Razak was raised to perpetuate the glory of his namesake and expected to be as illuminated as his Great Ancestor. But in the chaos of modernity, his young life is marked only by restlessness, maddening insomnia, and an adolescent apathy. When an unexpected tragedy ships him off to a boarding school in France, his trip to the big c... continue
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Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith EN
Description:
Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction A Best Book of the Year: BookPage A Must-Read: The New York Post and The Christian Science Monitor “A story of love, loss, and the enduring power of hope. I was transfixed from page one.” ―Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith’s Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving v... continue
Belgium2170.
Revolution in World Missions : One Man's Journey to Change a Generation by K. P. Yohannan EN
IndiaDescription:
Step into the story of missionary statesman K.P. Yohannan and experience the world through his eyes. You will hang on every word - from the villages of India to the shores of Europe and North America. Watch out: His passion is contagious!