Books written by male authors (3637)
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Death of a Red Heroine by Xiaolong Qiu EN
ChinaDescription:
In this Anthony Award-winning debut, Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done. "A Loyal Character Dancer "is the latest in Qiu's Shanghai series featuring Inspector Chen. "A marvelously assured debut. . . . Engrossing, immensely readable."-"The Wall Street Journal"
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Death of the Snake Catcher : Short Stories by Ak Welsapar EN
Country: Asia / 
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Description:
This book features people from one of the most closed countries of today's world, where the passage of time resembles the passage of a caravan through the waterless desert. This world has been recreated by a true-born son of that mysterious country, a Turkmen who, at the will of fate, has now been living for a quarter of a century in snowy Scandinavia. Is that not why two different worlds come together in Ryazan horseradish and Tula gingerbread, to come apart in Love in Lilac, in which a student from the non-free world falls in love with a girl from the West? In the story Death of the Snake Ca... continue
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Death of Yazdgerd by Bahram Beyzaie EN
IranDescription:
The story of death of the last king of Persia before Muslims invasion. He escapes and hides in a mill but gets killed. The miller, his wife and his daughter all express a different version of the same incident.
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Declaración de independencia by Albert Wendt ES
SamoaDescription:
Albert Wendt, nacido en Samoa en 1939, es considerado una de las figuras más relevantes de la literatura del Pacífico. Ha publicado novelas, relatos y poesía, teatro y crítica literaria y ha editado numerosas antologías de literatura del Pacífico. Se ha convertido en uno de los autores más prolíficos y aclamados de la zona, como se evidencia en los numerosos galardones que ha recibido. En la actualidad vive en Nueva Zelanda y es profesor emérito en la Universidad de Auckland.Declaración de Independencia es uno de sus relatos... continue
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Decolonising the Mind : The Politics of Language in African Literature by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o EN
KenyaDescription:
Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.
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Dedos de dátiles by Muḥsin Ramlī ES
IraqDescription:
Han transcurrido diez años desde que Selim, un exiliado iraquí que trabaja en Madrid, huyó de la dictadura, la guerra, y las estrictas tradiciones familiares y religiosas de su país. Su tranquila vida se ve alterada el día en que se encuentra con su padre, de quien no había tenido noticias durante años, ahora convertido en un irreconocible personaje.
La religión, la guerra, la muerte y el amor sirven como base para presentar conflictos sociales o morales con una espléndida sensibilidad poética. El autor manifiesta aqu&iacut... continue
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Deep Down Dark : The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas. When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consu... continue
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