検索キーワード： 政治

L'any 1984 Londres és una ciutat fosca en què la Policia del Pensament controla exhaustivament la vida dels ciutadans. Winston Smith és un peó d'aquest engranatge pervers i té com a objectiu reescriure la història per adaptar-la al que el Partit considera la versió oficial dels fets. Fins que un dia en Winston decideix qüestionar-se el sistema que els governa i els sotmet.

Set in a small village of India, the people face water problems and decide to take the issue to the government. To bring it to the notice of the government Babaya decides to forgo his life for it, but will it bring the desired results?

She was angry. She was fed up. It was time to take justice to the justices and other politicians who weren’t doing their jobs, especially the ones who had lied to obtain their positions in our political system. They’d forgotten that they were public officials that answer to the American people.

A Forgotten Poet follows the fortunes of diffident and reluctant man of letters, Harold Humber, from his early life in the English Midlands through his post-war career as economist, jazz aficionado, expert in industrial architecture, and, in the final reckoning, author of four slim volumes of popular verse.

Bag de hændelser, du kender til, står de drabsmænd, du ikke kender. Når diplomatiet fejler, er det os, der rykker ud. Officielt findes vi ikke, men alle regeringer i verden bruger os. Vi har reddet verden og din røv, i et århundrede. Seksten mennesker har udført jobbet før mig. Jeg er Sytten. Den mest frygtede snigmorder i verden. Men for at være den bedste må man slå de bedste. Mit næste mål er Seksten, ligesom Atten en dag vil nedlægge mig. Det er et rotteræs, og det er ensomt på toppen. Ingen får lov at blive der ret længe. Men mens vi er her, er det eneste, der betyder noget, at vi vinder.

From a former U.S. House spokesman and Senate speechwriter, a group of junior staffers working on Capitol Hill find themselves in the middle of a political standoff in this satirical novel. Iowa Farm boy Cameron Leann is new to Washington, D.C., joining a group of employees working for a...

Es sollte ein Neuanfang werden. Doch es wird eine Reise in die Vergangenheit. Sonja und Daniel wollen ihre Ehe retten und erfüllen sich einen Traum: Das schwedische Paar kauft ein Weingut in Tschechien und wandert dorthin aus: Das Anwesen liegt seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg brach, verströmt jedoch eine betörende Magie. Bei ihren Aufräumarbeiten entdecken sie ein Kellergewölbe mit Flaschen aus den Kriegsjahren. Und die mumifizierte Leiche eines kleinen Jungen mit weißer Armbinde.

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town, and the shocking headlines that become their local mythologies. A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media...

‘Trippy, incisive, riotously funny’ ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN ‘[An] insightfully nightmarish parable ' HALLE BUTLER 'A stunner’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH ‘Luminous … as if George Saunders infiltrated the Severance writers’ room’ WASHINGTON POST A work place novel. A love story. A dream...

Lucas is an adventurer of the alternative. A seeker of the offbeat and unconventional discourses from the peripheries of society. He has been called “odd”, “fringe”, “eccentric” and “enigmatic”. Where will these attributes take the aspiring traverser of Terra Incognita? What motivates him? Why is there an ostensible war? Who is Earl Pierce?

THE LAST ELECTION is a unique political thriller about an outlandish yet frighteningly possible—even probable—scenario in America's near future, during the crucial 2024 presidential election. Though it is fiction, it is a wake-up call to a country tearing itself apart, from former presidential candidate Andrew Yang and author Stephen Marche.

KØBENHAVN 2016. Efter et forrygende valg er Karoline Blicher kommet i Folketinget for Demokratisk Alliance. Partiet sidder i regering og har flere ministerposter, men nogen har sat et rygte i gang, som får en giftig magtkamp til at bryde ud. Det truer med at splitte partiet, og Karoline må gøre op med sig selv, om hun vil magten, og hvem hun vil ofre for at få den. Samtidig er den unge IT-ekspert Annie Faurschou fra Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste kommet på sporet af Karolines hemmelige russiske forbindelse.

W. E. B. Du Bois considered his first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece, to be an “economic study” of the post-Reconstruction relationship between the North and the South, but this first foray into fiction proves itself to be much more than that. Filled with literary realism, social commentary, and romance, Silver Fleece chronicles the love story between Zora, a free-spirited Black girl from a Southern swamp, and Bles, a Black man educated in the North.

В книгу включена не только легендарная повесть-притча Оруэлла Скотный Двор, но и эссе разных лет – Литература и тоталитаризм, Писатели и Левиафан, Заметки о национализме и другие. Что привлекает читателя в художественной и публицистической прозе этого запретного в тоталитарных странах автора? В первую очередь – острейшие проблемы политической и культурной жизни 40-х годов XX века, которые и сегодня продолжают оставаться актуальными. А также объективность в оценке событий и яркая авторская индивидуальность, помноженные на истинное литературное мастерство.

Zibby Mag, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, and She Reads Most Anticipated Book of the Year “Grossman balances the social and political, the emotional and physical, with insight and precision. Her disparate characters all hail from different worlds, and it’s a horrific thrill to witness...

Publicada en 1969, bajo la dictadura de Juan Carlos Onganía, Diario de la guerra del cerdo narra en clave semifantástica un enfrentamiento entre jóvenes y viejos en el barrio porteño de Palermo, suscitado por un inexplicable odio intergeneracional. De la noche a la mañana, unas pandillas de jóvenes violentos empiezan a atacar a ancianos y gente de edad, lo que trastoca la existencia del protagonista. Sus reacciones y la ambientación son realistas, pero el autor examina la cotidianidad a la luz de la fantasía y lo siniestro.

¿Se puede disolver un cuerpo? ¿Es posible reducir un ser humano a la nada? Utilizado en cantidades adecuadas, el ácido sulfúrico logra ese efecto. Cuando el proceso llega a su fin, sólo queda un líquido negruzco, turbio, con una capa superficial que tiene aspecto de costra de carbón. Una sociedad también se define a sí misma por sus crímenes, por sus formas de matar. Esta es la historia de uno de los homicidios más brutales cometidos en la Argentina.

One of Jessica Hagedorn's most daring novels—“a deft and complex tale of corruption, fealty, and integrity” (The Baltimore Sun) In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American Pastoral. Ira Ringold is an American roughneck who transforms himself from a ditch-digger in 1930s New Jersey, to a radio hotshot in the 1940s...

The Potato Eaters of Shanghai describes the upheaval and aftermath of President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of Chinese political power. Through a lens of his own identity confusion, M. Joakim Eriksson examines the events and culture of the era—including office life, day-to-day experiences of political corruption, and the invention of New Pork.