Adult genre books (563)
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Your Republic Is Calling You by Kim Young-ha EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is “perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English” (Kirkus). Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he’s an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, after more than a decade of silence from the home office, he receives a mysterious email stating that he has one day to return to headquarters. But is the mess... continue
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Zeina by Nawāl Saʻdāwī, Nawal El Saadawi EN
EgyptDescription:
"More than any other woman, Nawal El Saadawi has come has come to embody the trials of Arab feminism."--San Francisco Chronicle "The leading spokeswoman on the status of women in the Arab World."--Guardian "Saadawi writes with directness and passion."--The New York Times Bodour, a distinguished literary critic and university professor, carries with her a dark secret. As a young university student, she fell in love with a political activist and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Zeina, whom she abandoned on the streets of Cairo. Zeina grows up to become one of Egypt's most beloved entertai... continue
Morocco