Literary Fiction Political

Internationally best-selling author and Washington State Book Award winner Jim Lynch's Truth Like the Sun was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month. In 1962, Roger Morgan became the golden boy behind the Seattle World's Fair. Nearly 40 years later, he's a shoo-in for mayor. But when an ambitious journalist begins digging into his past, sordid details about his career come to light.

At the height of the Cold War, words are weapons and secrecy reigns. These are challenging times to be a writer and a wife, as Nell Benjamin knows only too well. One bright November day in 1963, the dazzling young president arrives in Texas and Nell receives a phone call that overturns the world as she knows it. In the shocking aftermath, whilst America mourns, Nell must come to terms with both a tragedy and a betrayal that shatters every illusion of the man she thought she knew better than anyone else.

"Frank Witzels Werk ist ein im besten Sinne maßloses Romankonstrukt. Erzählt wird die Geschichte eines Jungen aus der hessischen Provinz, der sich im Alter von dreizehneinhalb auf der Schwelle zum Erwachsenwerden befindet. In diese Geschichte eingewoben ist das politische Erwachen der alten Bundesrepublik, die beginnt, sich vom Muff der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit zu befreien [...]."

Twenty-eight-year-old Carrie Thompson-Sherman has the life she always wanted: her PhD, a prestigious fellowship, and an amazing husband. Her charmed life begins to unravel as a jealous colleague puts her fellowship in jeopardy and a hideous secret Ray carried home from Afghanistan comes to light. Hanging on by a single thread, a disastrous accident puts both her husband and her sister's lives at risk. Heartbroken, Carrie will be faced with the most devastating choice of her life. A choice that will change everything.

A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.

Le voyage d'Octavio est celui d'un analphabète vénézuélien qui, à travers d'épiques tribulations, va se réapproprier son passé et celui de son pays. Le destin voudra qu'il tombe amoureux de Venezuela, une comédienne de Maracaibo, qui lui apprend à écrire. Mais la bande de brigands "chevaleresques", menée par Rutilio Alberto Guerra, pour laquelle il travaille, organisera un cambriolage précisément au domicile de sa bien-aimée. Avant que ne débute un grand voyage dans le pays qui porte son nom.

Corrupt elements of the South African Intelligence Services are stalking Morne Delport, a South African industrialist and his eclectic band of friends. When no one is watching, their phones are tapped, they are followed, and violence is sanctioned against them. They are in a race to save their countrymen, and forever separate themselves from the legacy of Apartheid, but powerful forces have other plans. They are watching and wanting their wealth for their own.

Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM - a miserable and dangerous place ruled for thirty years by Harry Sam, a former used car salesman who wields his power from his bathroom throne. In a land of a thousand contradictions peopled by cops and beatniks, black nationalists and white liberals, the crusading Bukka Doopeyduk leads a rebellion against the corrupt Sam in a wildly uproarious and scathing satire....

In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a young Arab journalist returns to his hometown - an Arab village within Israel - where his already vexed sense of belonging is forced to crisis when the village becomes a pawn in the never-ending power struggle that is the Middle East. Hoping to reclaim the simplicity of life among kin, the prodigal son returns home to find that nothing is as he remembers: Everything is smaller; the people are petty and provincial.

The Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire.

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Set at the turn of the 21st century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter, who lives alone in the valley, spending his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter. He is little aware of the world outside until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude.

When Suyana, Face of the United Amazonia Rainforest Confederation, secretly meets Ethan of the United States for a date that can solidify a relationship for the struggling UARC, the last thing she expects is an assassination attempt. Daniel, a teen runaway turned paparazzi out for his big break, witnesses the first shot hit Suyana, and before he can think about it he jumps into the fray, telling himself it's not altruism, it's the scoop. Just like that,Suyana and Daniel are now in the game of Faces.

When the President's mistress reveals the existence of a sex tape and demands money for her silence, it falls to the long suffering First Lady to deal with it. Unwilling to trust the Secret Service or any other federal agency, she calls on childhood friend and former lover, Dan Powers, to negotiate the deal. But with bodies quickly falling Powers soon learns nothing is as it appears and that he's been marked for death.

Henry Dumas' fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity. From the Deep South to the simmering streets of Harlem, his characters embark on surreal and mythic quests armed only with wit, words, and wisdom. Championed by Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, and Quincy Troupe, Dumas' books have long been out of print. All of his short fiction is collected here, for the first time, and includes several previously unpublished stories.

هو عمل أدبي للكاتب التونسي محمود المسعدي بث من خلاله أفكاره الفلسفية الوجودية من خلال البطل أبو هريرة معتمدا على لغة مكثفة وقديمة. اعتبرها الناقد توفيق بكار أهم مغامرة روائية في القرن العشرين واختيرت كتاسع أفضل 100 رواية عربية من اتحاد الكتاب العرب. البطل أبو هريرة الذي كان يعيش في مكة متزوجاً على السنة يتسلم قيود الحياة من السلف ولا يسأل عن مبرراتها، متديناً متحلياً بالقيم

Il 7 ottobre 1967 Ernesto Che Guevara resta imbottigliato con un piccolo gruppo di guerriglieri in una "quebrada" della foresta. Consegnatosi ai soldati, il Che viene trasportato nel vicino paesino di La Higuera dove è rinchiuso nel locale della scuola. Il 9 ottobre a un soldato scelto a sorte tocca il compito di uccidere il ferito, il cui cadavere viene poi trasportato all'ospedale di Vallegrande per essere mostrato a fotografi e giornalisti.

Ein Anruf aus dem Hospiz: Ihr Kindheitsfreund Yigal, den Lizzie vierzig Jahre lang nicht gesehen hat, bittet sie, sein letzter Besuch kurz vor seinem Tod zu sein. Aber warum ausgerechnet sie? Yigals Erfahrungen in der israelischen Armee machten ihn zum Aktivisten gegen die Politik seines Heimatlandes. Als Tochter einer Holocaust-Überlebenden hielt Lizzie ihn für einen Verräter und wandte sich von ihm ab. Jetzt stellt sie sich der Frage, wer damals wen verraten hat. In den frühen Morgenstunden und voller Erinnerungen im Gepäck macht Lizzie sich auf den Weg.

Mein Sohn, trotz allem... Fus und Gillou, 10 und 7, sind sein ganzer Stolz. Doch als seine Frau stirbt, steht er mit seinen Jungs allein da. Die Arbeit als Monteur, Haushalt, Erziehung: Er gibt sein Bestes, bringt die Jungs zum Fußball, zeltet mit ihnen in den Ferien. Die ersten Jahre läuft alles glatt. Nur Fus wird in der Schule schlechter, sodass er danach nicht in Paris studieren kann. Der Vater tröstet sich damit, dass sein Ältester nicht wegzieht - bis er entdeckt, dass der 20-Jährige neuerdings mit einer rechtsextremen Clique rumhängt.

Uscito nel 1976, "Un borghese piccolo piccolo" racconta la crudele, sanguinosa vicenda di Giovanni Vivaldi, impiegato di un ministero romano che, nell'Italia spietata del boom economico, tenta di farsi largo nel mondo tra sotterfugi e piccole furbizie, ed è pronto a tutto pur di garantire al figlio quel benessere che lui ha potuto solo sfiorare.

"Sabotaggio d'amore" è la storia della guerra surreale che impegna e allieta i figli dei diplomatici stranieri a Pechino nel ghetto di San Li Tun, all'inizio degli anni Settanta. Su questo sfondo si muove lo sguardo pungente della protagonista, una bambina di sette anni precocissima, presa fra una sorprendente consapevolezza, le corse in bicicletta e la scoperta del primo, perturbante amore.