Books written by male authors (3220)
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The Garden of Departed Cats by Bilge Karasu EN
TurkeyDescription:
A surreal, utterly unique Turkish novel about a human chess game.
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The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng EN
MalaysiaDescription:
A mesmerizing new novel of love and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of "The Gift of Rain," which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2008.
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The Garlic Ballads : A Novel by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt EN
ChinaDescription:
The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials maltreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch in horror as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. The prisoners languish in h... continue
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The Gene : An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee EN
IndiaDescription:
Prologue: Families -- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935 -- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970 -- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001 -- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005 -- Through the looking glass 2001-2015 -- Post-genome 2015- ... -- Epilogue: Bheda, Abheda
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The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare EN
AlbaniaDescription:
The General of the Dead Army is a moving and timely meditation on war and its consequences by the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, available again in paperback. Twenty years after World War II, an Italian general—armed with maps, measurements, and dental records—is sent to Albania to recover the remains of his country’s fallen soldiers. A quarrelsome priest joins him, and in rain and sleet they dig up the Albanian countryside—once a battlefield, now a graveyard—checking teeth and dog tags, assembling a dead army in pine-box uniforms. In addition to the brutal weather, th... continue
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The Genius Under the Table : Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin EN
RussiaDescription:
Eugene Yelchin recounts growing up in Cold War Russia.
Slovenia2438.
The ghetto within by Santiago H. Amigorena EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love. A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorena’s grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance,The Ghetto Within re-imagines the life of this Jewish grandfather, a Polish exile in Argentina, whose guilt provok... continue
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The Ghost Cat : 12 Decades, 9 Lives, 1 Cat by Alex Howard EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.'The Ghost Cat is an Edinburgh delight: "mizzle-ridden" days were made for books like this!'LUCY RIBCHESTER, author of The Hourglass Factory'A beautiful story' Tiktok's @beansthegingercat'Enchanting, entertaining and engaging ...[Bokinfo].
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The Ghost of Us by James L. Sutter EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
One Last Stop meets Cemetery Boys in this swoony YA romance from beloved author James L. Sutter. Eighteen-year-old ghost hunter Cara is determined to escape life as a high school outcast by finding proof of the supernatural. Yet when she stumbles upon the spirit of Aiden, a popular upperclassman who died the previous year, she learns that ghosts have goals of their own. In the wake of his death, Aiden’s little sister, Meredith, has become a depressed recluse, and Aiden can’t pass on into the afterlife until he knows she’ll be okay. Believing that nothing pulls someone out of a slump like roman... continue