Literary Fiction Political

Cuando el narrador de esta novela conoce a Mirko Bevilacqua, un hombre extravagante que frecuenta de manera intermitente y clandestina a Clara, una joven que cuida de una anciana y elegante dama croata, su percepción de la realidad cambia irreversiblemente.

Hélène ist fast vierzig, hat in Paris Karriere gemacht, und lebt nun mit Philippe und ihren beiden gemeinsamen Töchtern in einem Architektenhaus in der Nähe von Nancy. Sie hat sich ihre Jugendträume erfüllt: raus aus der Provinz, dem Kleinbürgerdasein der Eltern entkommen, erfolgreich sein. Christophe hingegen hat die kleine Stadt im Osten Frankreichs, in der er und Hélène aufgewachsen sind, nie verlassen. Er ist Vertreter für Hundefutter und führt ein unentschlossenes Leben als Teilzeitpapa und alternder Eishockeyspieler.

Eine junge Frau sitzt in ihrer Wohnung und blickt auf die kleinen Dramen, die sich in ihrer Nachbarschaft abspielen. Nur ihr eigenes Leben steht still. Nachdem der Bürgerkrieg in ihrer syrischen Heimat ausbrach, ist die Journalistin dem Versprechen von Sicherheit gefolgt und nach Europa geflüchtet. Betäubt von den Kriegstraumata verstummt sie. Aber sie beginnt, zu schreiben - über ihr Zuhause, die Flucht und die Einsamkeit im britischen Exil.

In a nameless country under military occupation, two friends prepare to attend a wedding. The young man is from the occupied region ("This Place"), the woman is from the occupying nation-state ("That Place"). The complicated relationship between these two protagonists with unusual professions--he is a Protest Designer and she is a De-programmer--is tested when, on the eve of the wedding, the occupying power, That Place, formally annexes This Place and declares a curfew.

Matschuchy, Ukraine, 1933: Die junge Jawdocha versucht verzweifelt, sich und ihre Familie am Leben zu halten – doch der Hunger setzt nicht nur ihren Körpern zu, sondern immer mehr Menschen in ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung greifen zu verzweifelten, unmenschlichen Maßnahmen im Kampf um das nackte Überleben.

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need. Nineteen-year-old Nia, haunted by her troubled past in Wales, is running from her family. Shan, having fled the Sri Lankan civil war, is desperate to find his.

6 dias, 13 horas e 37 minutos... No final de "A Filha Pródiga", Florentyna Kane é eleita presidente - a primeira mulher Presidente dos Estados Unidos. Após décadas de luta, sacrifício e tragédia pessoal, ela finalmente alcançou seu objetivo. No entanto, enquanto ela faz seu discurso inaugural, aqueles que se opõem a ela estão tramando para silenciá-la para sempre. Às 19h30 de certa noite, o FBI descobre uma conspiração para matá-la - a 1.572ª ameaça do ano. Às 20h30, cinco pessoas sabem todos os detalhes. Às 21h30, quatro delas já estão mortas.

When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, finds out the devastating news that she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics.

A father and three of his seven children work brutal hours in a mine, facing hazards such as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their lodger, Étienne, shares ideas about a workers' revolt, the family gradually embraces his plans. Soon the settlement is aflame with resolve to strike for better wages and working conditions. Savage and horrifying events ensue as miners clash with management and with each other.

Based on actual events, The Story of My Assassins tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he’s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his aspiring murderers - a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs - and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why?

From the war-shattered jungles of Vietnam to America’s burning cities, near-death in Tibet, peace marches, the battle of Hué and the battle of the Pentagon, wild drugs, rock concerts, free love, CIA coups in Indonesia and Greece, the Six Days’ War, and Bobby Kennedy’s last campaign, Freedom puts you in the Sixties as if it were now. Mick leaves for the Himalayas while Troy heads to Vietnam with the Marines. Daisy starts her PhD in brain research, and Tara battles heroin as her rock band reaches stardom.

The first of two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in scope and exuberant in style in the best tradition of Latin American literature, this book roots its readers in the ebullience of Mexico's daily life and language, even as they are made to confront the horrors of history, to examine the difficulties of friendship and family.

What Alex, illegitimate daughter of an alcoholic novelist and an artist, has always wanted is family. At 15, she falls in love with a 27-year-old photographer, whom she will leave when she comes under the spell of Ted Neal, a charismatic activist on his way to Mississippi for 1964’s Freedom Summer. That fall, Ted organizes a collective that turns to the growing antiwar movement.

When a car-jacking in Johannesburg leads to the death of her colleague and lover, Zoe du Plessis, a palaeontologist of Afrikaner origin, is confronted with her family’s secret. As she heads for the Kalahari Desert in search of early human fossils, Zoe embarks on an inner journey into the sense of guilt haunting her people. Meaningful encounters with a San Bushman shaman, a legendary but troubled writer, a Zulu Border War veteran, and her ancestors’ diaries will reshape Zoe's sense of identity.

For decades, the Reverend Sammy Milton was a force in American politics. An outspoken leader of the Religious Right, Milton divided his time between evangelizing the lost and galvanizing conservative voters. His rhetoric was polarizing, his positions were divisive, and he garnered many enemies over the years. When news outlets carried word of his death, many openly expressed joy at his passing.

When Satya, a professor and author, attends a prestigious artists' retreat to write, he finds the pressures of the outside world won’t let up: the president rages online; a dangerous virus envelops the globe; and the twenty-four-hour news cycle throws fuel on every fire. For most of the retreat fellows, such stories are unbearable distractions, but for Satya, who sees them play out in both America and his native India, these Orwellian interruptions begin to crystallize into an idea for his new novel, Enemies of the People, about the lies we tell ourselves and one another.

Abel återvänder till Chicago, fortfarande ursinnig efter det ödesdigra mötet med Kane, bara för att mötas av ytterligare motgångar vid sin ankomst. Trots att han gjort sitt bästa för att förbereda sig för det oväntade är hans ansträngningar otillräckliga och han finner sig snart i en mycket prekär situation. Kane å sin sida kämpar på med sina egna problem. Företaget har gått med stora förluster och han överväger att säga upp sig. Han lär känna Kate och ber henne följa med honom till England, trots att de nyligen träffas.

Tjugoettåriga Valter Nordin vet precis vad det är han vill med sitt liv. Han ska bli polis, skydda sina medmänniskor och göra en insats för sitt land. Militärtjänsten gav honom helt enkelt mersmak. Kanske skulle han till och med kunna jobba för SÄPO? Men efter tre avslag blir Valter villrådig. Polisen vill tydligen inte ha honom, fastän han är en tvättäkta patriot. Ska han verkligen behöva lägga golv resten av livet? På jakt efter nya vägar framåt hamnar Valter i situationer som inte alls blir som han tänkt sig.

Charles Seymor, näst äldste son och därmed utesluten från att ärva sin fars earl-titel, ärvde i alla fall sin mors styrka. Och en vilja att skapa sitt eget öde ... Simon Kerslakes far offrade allt för sin sons drömmar. Nu är det upp till Simon att nå dem. Ray Gould kommer från de stökigare kvarteren, men fostrades med stolthet - som går väl i hand med hans skarpa intellekt och drivkraft att nå det omöjliga ... Tre män som går från att vara främlingar till rivaler om posten till premiärminister i Storbritannien.

Douglas Braithwaite is an American aviator and managing director of an airline flying humanitarian aid from Kenya to war-ravaged Sudan. Quinette Hardin is an evangelical Christian from Iowa whose human rights group works to redeem slaves from Arab raiders. Fitzhugh Martin is a multiracial Kenyan seeking a calling that will rejuvenate his directionless life. These and other characters populate Philip Caputo's riveting novel that describes the classic confrontation between Westerners and the Third World.