Political genre books (413)
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The Latehomecomer : A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang EN
ThailandDescription:
One Hmong family's harrowing escape from war in Laos to the uncertainty of a new home as refugees in Minnesota.
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SlovakiaDescription:
Jaded Ondro never would have guessed he could fall in love during a brief layover-until now. In Basel, Switzerland, he meets Jamie, an American living in Scotland who is as brilliant as he is beautiful. Put in a position to offer Jamie comfort without hope of recompense, Ondro catches a glimpse of the home he longs for.
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The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey by Kaya Genç EN
TurkeyDescription:
Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and novelist Kaya Genc travelled around his country on a quest to find the places and people in whom the contrasts of Turkey's rich past meet. As suicide bombers attack Istanbul, and journalists and teachers are imprisoned, he walks the streets of the famous Ottoman neighbourhoods, telling the stories of the ordinary Turks who live among the contradiction... continue
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The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz EN
PolandDescription:
'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves' Slavomir Rawicz Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag. After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Realising that to remain mea... continue
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Or, How Violence Develops and where it Can Lead by Heinrich Böll EN
GermanyDescription:
A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
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Iraq
Malaysia328.
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton EN
EnglandDescription:
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are the ideas. Chesterton's nutty agenda is really quite simple: to expose moral relativism and parlor nihilism for the devils he believes them to be. This wouldn't be interesting at all, though, if he didn... continue
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The March of Folly : From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W. Tuchman EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turn... continue
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IcelandDescription:
Station Eleven and Leave the World Behind by way of The Memory Police, a debut novel of urgent big ideas imbued with pacy plotting and atmospheric power, by an exciting Icelandic literary talent.