Cultural genre books (420)
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Taiwan Travelogue : A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang EN
TaiwanDescription:
FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese... continue
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Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell EN
EnglandDescription:
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challengi... continue
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Talmeş balmeş de etnologie şi multe altele : Haide, bre! : incursiune subiectivă în lumea aromânilor by Irina Nicolau RO
RomaniaDescription:
Volumul "Haide, bre!: incursiune subiectivă în lumea aromânilor. Talmeş balmeş de etnologie şi multe altele", de Irina Nicolau, este o colecţie de articole şi scurte eseuri, care acoperă un spectru larg de subiecte, în cea mai mare parte pe teme etnologice. Lucrarea regretatei autoare, etnolog de prestigiu, director pentru Programe Etnologice la Muzeul Tăranului Român, a fost aşteptată cu nerăbdare de personalitâti culturale româneşti. Această lucrare, unică în peisajul lucrărilor româneşti, este de fapt alcătuită din două volume &ndash... continue
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Tastes Like War : A Memoir by Grace M. Cho EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
A powerful account of a Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history to understand her mother's schizophrenia.
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Tell Me Why You Fled: True Stories of Seeking Refuge by Karen O’Reilly EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
A candid and irreverent memoir about helping people find refuge - from war, and torture and genocide - as a young woman seeking refuge from herself.
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Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe EN
IsraelDescription:
In this groundbreaking book, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. This has been updated with a new afterword on the 2023 invasion of Gaza. 1. Palestine was an Empty Land 2. The Jews were a people with out a land 3. Zionism is Judaism 4. Zionism is not Colonialism 5. The Palestinians Voluntarily Left their Homelands in 1948 6. The June 1967 War was a war of 'No Choice' 7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East 8. The Myths about the Oslo Agreement 9. The Lies we ... continue
287.
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis EN
IrelandDescription:
C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.
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The Affairs of the Falcóns by Melissa Rivero EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family’s opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho’s cousin—who has made it obvio... continue
Croatia290.
The Appointment : A Novel by Katharina Volckmer EN
GermanyDescription:
“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han Kang, a whip-smart debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative. In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can bar... continue