Literary Fiction Political

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.

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.

In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective - to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come.

As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of death - a death that will completely overturn the political structure of Spain - two couples are entwined. One, a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into. The other, a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix a young American arrives, seeking his missing lover - bringing a shadow of danger into the machinations already at work. Soon the political tension in the country reaches the breaking point....

ليو جين يون كاتب صيني معاصر من مواليد عام 1958. يُصنف جين يون ككاتب من الدرجة الأولى، وبفضل إنجازاته في مجال الكتابة، حصل على جائزة ماودون الأدبية عام 2011 وعلى غيرها من الجوائز الأدبية الرفيعة. وتحولت العديد من روايته إلى أعمال سينمائية حققت إيرادات عالية. وحصلت روايته "البرج" حال صدورها على جائزة أفضل قصة في الصين.

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.

In Ayn Rand’s Anthem, humankind has entered a dark age at some point in the unspecified future. Individuality is no longer permitted, and people are assigned roles to fulfill in their lives. The work's protagonist, Equality 7-2521, is given an undesirable job as a punishment for thinking for himself and desiring to become a scientist instead. The novella outlines his journey as he starts to commit more “crimes” against society, such as desiring a companion of his own choosing, discovering electricity, and ultimately fleeing from his leaders.

"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.

Set against the backdrop of the both optimistic and violent 1950s and 1960s, Affections traces the Ertls's slow and inevitable breakdown through the various erratic trajectories of each family member: Hans's undertakings of colossal, foolhardy projects and his subsequent spectacular failures; his daughter Monika, heir to his adventurous spirit, who joins the Bolivian Marxist guerrillas and becomes known as "Che Guevara's avenger"; and his wife and two younger sisters left to pick up the pieces in their wake.

In 1995, at the height of the Bosnian conflict, a young refugee visits the old Mardi Castle in the north of Italy. There, instead of only experiencing the beautiful fortress and Renaissance frescoes, he becomes enthralled with the story of the tragic fate of poet Enzo Strecci, who spent his last days awaiting death in the castle’s dungeon. A Franciscan guide, Niccolò, a refugee as well, will illuminate the past in remarkable ways for the curious tourist. The fascinating and moving tale reaches back not only to Strecci’s life - four centuries earlier.

Our America: The Mayor is a story about Bob Griffith, an average citizen. Bob has had much success in his young life. He is a successful manager, educated, and possessed with great people skills. He is caring towards all people and loving towards his wife. Bob is on the path of great professional success. Through the encouragement of his wife, Bob is persuaded to seek public office as the Mayor of Hilliard, Ohio. Though he is an upstanding citizen, Bob has absolutely no political experience.

The Wall is a new, brief collection of stories by Becker that have either never been translated into English or been published here in audiobook form before. The title story, "The Wall," recounts two boys’ risky adventure when they scale the wall of a transit camp to visit the ghetto their families have recently vacated. In "The Most Popular Family Story," a favorite anecdote recounted year after year at the gatherings of an extended Jewish family subtly marks the absences left by the Holocaust.

Jim Sams hat eine Verwandlung durchgemacht. In seinem früheren Leben wurde er entweder ignoriert oder gehasst, doch jetzt ist er auf einmal der mächtigste Mann Großbritanniens - und seine Mission ist es, den Willen des Volkes in die Tat umzusetzen. Er ist wild entschlossen, sich von nichts und niemandem aufhalten zu lassen: weder von der Opposition noch von den Abweichlern in seiner eigenen Partei. Und noch nicht mal von den Regeln der parlamentarischen Demokratie. Die aberwitzige, kafkaeske Politsatire des großen britischen Erzählers.

From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace. An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting...

Historia de un amor imposible, Las batallas en el desierto es un magistral audiolibro que involucra otros aspectos como la corrupción social y política, el inicio del Mexico moderno y la desaparición del país tradicional, y el rescate de las memorias individuales y colectivas de una ciudad a la que José Emilio Pacheco ama profundamente, pero recrea sin nostalgia y denuncia de manera implacable.

Maps can be useful in war, but many of the things they are helpful for can be achieved by other means, at least to an extent. An ancient or medieval commander wouldn't have an accurate map of the land he's campaigning on, but reconnaissance could help him learn about it. He might not have a map of the battlefield he was fighting on, and if he did, then it would probably be very primitive, but again reconnaissance could help him learn about it.

Una satira de la vida estadounindense. Sinclair Lewis, ganador del Premio Nobel, quiso mostrar en sus dos grandes novelas Babbitt y Calle Mayor, aspectos de la vida de su pais, con un ojo que satirizaba esa hipocresia puritana que muchas veces se presenta no solo en Estados Unidos sino en todas partes.

This gripping tale of the future anticipates Ayn Rand's later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In the dark ages of the future, individuals have no name, no independence, and no values. In this faceless world, one man dares to love the woman of his choice and to seek and find knowledge.

La tragedia que fue la Primera Guerra Mundial (solo superada por la hecatombes de la segunda) produjo una cantidad de obras maestras de inclinacion anti-belica, de las cuales una de las mas famosas fue Sin Novedad en el Frente la historia de las batallas a traves de los ojos prosaicos de unos soldados que luchan y matan sin saber por que lo hacen.

Anatole France creo una de las grandes novelas, que sobre el fondo de los anos posteriores a la Revolucion Francesa y el desarrollo del Terror, muestra un punto de vista diferente sobre ese hecho historico. El protagonista de la obra, el pintor Evaristo Gamelin, revolucionario ferviente, se ven envuelto en los torbellinos de los hechos y acaba sacrificando en vano su vida.