Book type: non-fiction (1192)
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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hi... continue
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Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956: sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo Walsh learns by chance that one of the executed civilians from a separate, secret execution in June, is alive. He hears that there may be more than one survivor and believes this unbelievable story on the spot. And right there, the monumental classic Operation Massacre is born. Walsh made it hi... continue
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Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrest≤ it didn't matter what." --Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre o... continue
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Orientalism by Edward W. Said EN
PalestineDescription:
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful European ideological creation - a way for writers, philosophers and colonial administrators to deal with the 'otherness' of eastern culture, customs and beliefs. He traces this view through the writings of Homer, Nerval and Flaubert... continue
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AngolaDescription:
Se é certo que as crianças crescem em segredo, como diz Ana Paula Tavares, de vez em quando comprova-se que esse segredo espera uns anos para se desvendar amadurecido em literatura. Assim é o novíssimo livro de estórias do jovem poeta e ficcionista angolano Ondjaki. Em Os da minha rua o autor reedifica os da sua casa: da memória, do afeto, da identidade. Com escrita depurada casada com o oralidade, reconstrói-se o universo da infância e o correr da vida em Luanda: a escola e os professores cubanos, brincadeiras e descobertas, festas em casa dos amigos e dos amigos dos familiares. Atesta-se des... continue
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Out of Havana : Memoirs of Ordinary Life in Cuba by Araceli Alonso EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
Out of Havana provides an uncommon ordinary woman's insight into the last half century of Cuba's tumultuous recent history. More powerfully than an academic study or historical account, it allows us intimately to grasp the enthusiasm, commitment and sense of promise that defined many average Cubans' experience of the 1959 Revolution and the first triumphant decades of the Castro regime. As the story shifts into the final decades of the last century (the 1980s Mariel Boatlift, the so-called "special period in time of peace" [from 1991 to the end of the decade], and the 1994 Balseros or Rafters ... continue
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Out of the Silence: After the Crash by Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano EN
Country: South America / Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
"It's the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home"--Page 4 of cover
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Owner of a Lonely Heart : A Memoir by Beth Nguyen EN
VietnamDescription:
From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together. Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the stor... continue
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Pablo Escobar : My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar, Sebasti©Ln Marroqu©Un EN
Country: South America / 
Colombia
Colombia
Description:
The popular series Narcos captures only half the truth. This riveting, deeply personal memoir by Pablo Escobar's son reveals the full story.