Literary Fiction Political

Peru, the 1980s and 1990s: It was a cruel, bloody and terrifying era. The rebels of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), founded by philosophy professor, Abimael Guzman, slaughtered vilagers in the mountains and hung dogs from power lines, their carcasses canvases for Maoist slogans. The government responded with a corrosive mix of assasination, bribery and intrigue which brought down the rebel leader but triggered the fall of the president.

Valérie Barot, spécialiste de l'art médiéval, est chargée d'acquérir un manuscrit du XVe siècle au cours d'une vente aux enchères à New York. Une transaction qui n'a rien d'exceptionnel. Et pourtant... Sur la route de Valérie s'accumulent les obstacles et les événements dramatiques, faisant planer autour de cet objet une aura de mystère. Ce livre semble être l'objet de toutes les convoitises et sème le désordre sur son passage.

One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America - Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times best-selling author Christopher Reich.

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the extraordinary trajectory of Rand's literary and intellectual growth, from a 21-year-old Russian immigrant struggling to master English to the brilliant prose stylist and sophisticated philosopher she was to become in her mature work.

Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took between the European powers in the run up to World War Two. What emerges is a fascinating and incredibly moving account of failed diplomacy, broken relationships and the catastrophic momentum which led to conflict.

بين الحبّ والحرب حكاياتٌ كثيرة ربّما لا تتسع لها روايةٌ واحدة لكن هنا يبدو بأنّ َالكلمات قد أصبحت بحرًا وابتلعت جميع الحكايات والأحداث التي واكبت الثورة السورية..

روايةٌ مبنيةٌ على أحداث واقعية وبشخوص حقيقية، هذا ما أصرَّ الكاتب على إيصاله لنا عن طريق عددٍ من الشخصيات؛ كمال الذي يفقد حبيبته على يد الجماعات المسلّحة فيقرّر الانضمام للطرف الآخر، وعبد الرحمن الذي يفشل في دراسته وفي حياته الاجتماعية ويتنقل ما بين حياة اللهو والتديّن ويقرّر حمل السلاح لغايةٍ غريبة، وخليل الإعلامي الذي يرفض السفر ويفضّل البقاء والسعي لكشف الحقيقة، وغيرهم الكثير..

It was once said that you must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.... Alli Carson has been through her own personal hell. With her father, the President of the United States, recently dead and her mother in a coma from a terrible accident, she has poured herself into her training to become one of the best FBI agents at the Fearington Institute. Her inspiration and solace comes from the one man with whom she has ever felt a kinship, National Security Adviser, Jack McClure.

As the 1980s draw to a close, South Africa is a maelstrom of political violence with the apartheid regime in its death throes. Young Martin Helger is the struggling odd duck at an elite private boys school in Johannesburg, with his father, a rough-handed scrap dealer, and his brother, a mysterious legend. When a beautiful and manipulative American arrives at the family home, Martin soon finds himself wrenched out of his isolated bubble and thrust into the raw heart of the struggle.

La historia se inicia cuando, en el aniversario del gobierno, se atenta contra la vida de Viviana, presidente de la República de Faguas, líder y fundadora del Partido de Izquierda Erótica. Gioconda Belli, poeta y narradora nicaragüense, usa de su humor, ironía, valentía, imaginación, para relatar una historia en la que el realismo de la situación de América Latina y, particularmente América Central, es descrito con una precisión fotográfica. Es poesía en acción, ideología nueva y sueños, no exenta de amor, violencia y esperanza.

After surviving a car crash that left her widowed at 22, Kathleen has retreated to a remote corner of a state park, where she works flipping burgers for deer hunters and hikers. But when a stranger appears in the dead of winter, Kathleen is intrigued. He says he's a student visiting from Uzbekistan, and his worldliness fills her with curiosity about life beyond the valley. After a cautious friendship settles between them, the stranger confesses to a terrible crime in his home country, and Kathleen finds herself in the grip of a manhunt - and face-to-face with secrets of her own.

A riveting novel about two women - one Serbian, one Bosnian - whose deep friendship spans decades and continents, war and peace, love, and estrangement, in the vein of Elena Ferrante and Julia Alvarez. From the moment Marija walks into Lara's classroom, freshly moved to Serbia from Sarajevo, Lara is enchanted by her vibrant beauty, confidence, and wild energy - and knows that the two are destined to be lifelong friends. But when the Bosnian War pits their homelands against each other in a bloodbath, Lara and Marija are forced to separate for the first time.

June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report that an aviator from Idaho witnessed nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft built by humankind. Days later, a desperate Chicago pool hustler, inspired by the news, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream search for a possible extraterrestrial sign. From those he inspires along the way to the Cascades comes a new community - “The Seekers” - devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past.

New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at a small news agency that produces a website read by the Chinese diaspora around the world. Danlin's explosive exposés have made him legendary among readers - and feared by Communist officials. But his newest assignment may be his undoing: investigating his ex-wife, Yan Haili, an unscrupulous novelist who has willingly become a pawn of the Chinese government in order to realize her dreams of literary stardom.

Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to make a difference. As the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan that employs innovative new technologies to make America the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting the economy and protecting the environment.

A Liu Zhenyun le llevó tres años escribir esta novela, la más grande y madura de su acervo literario. La primera parte describe el pasado: Moisés Wu salió de Yanjin para encontrar a la única persona con quien "podía hablar", su hijastra. La segunda parte narra el presente: Niu Aiguo, hijo de aquella querida hijastra, también emprendió un viaje desde Yanjin men busca de un amigo con quien hablar. Ambos salieron y tardaron cien años.

Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a baby wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home.

In rural Turkey, Meryem is raped by her uncle. Outcast for shaming her family, she is expected to kill herself. Her commando cousin instead tells her he will take her to Istanbul. By chance, they meet Irfan, a celebrity professor who has left his wife, and the three embark on a journey that shows what unexpected things can happen in the space between wounded people.

To uncover the truth about a friend's disappearance, a fragile young woman must silence the ghosts of her past in this moving debut tale that intertwines mystery, madness, betrayal, love, and literature. My past was never more than one thought, one breath, one heartbeat away. And then, on that particular October evening, it literally arrived at my doorstep.

The novel takes us both forward and back in time, creating a panoramic view of the family’s history: from Alexander’s grandparents’ return to the GDR to build the socialist state, to his father’s decade spent in a gulag for criticizing the Soviet regime, to his son’s desire to leave the political struggles of the twentieth century in the past.

Tvillingbröderna Nat och Fletcher skiljs åt vid födseln och växer upp i två helt olika familjer, ovetandes om varandras existens. Nat växer upp med deras biologiska föräldrar under blygsamma förhållanden. Fletcher däremot växer upp som den enda sonen till en mångmiljonär och hans hustru. Fletcher och Nat möts när de båda kandiderar för rollen som guvernör i Connecticut, den ena som demokrat och den andra som republikan.