Cultural genre books (420)
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BulgariaDescription:
Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon their land and traditional way of life. Darkly comic and tragic, the novel centers on an ill-fated winter hunting expedition of six neighbors whose history together is long and interwoven. The ensuing story takes the reader on a voyage of shifting perspectives that places the calamitous history of twentieth-century Bulgaria into a human context of helplessness and desperation.
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Wolof (The Heritage Library of African Peoples) by Tijan M. Sallah EN
GambiaDescription:
Examines the land, life, and history of the Wolof people of West Africa.
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Woman Take Two by Telcine Turner EN
Country: North America / 
Bahamas
Bahamas
Description:
A three-act play that deals with love and greed. Set in The Bahamas, it tells the tale of a few people forging alliances for themselves - for love and/or money. Suspenseful and intriguing, it provides a glimpse into the darker side of the human character.
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Women Workers on Strike : Narratives of Southern Women Unionists by Roxanne Newton EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Yellowface : A Novel by R. F. Kuang EN
ChinaDescription:
So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her
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Yo no quería ser madre by TRIFONIA MELIBEA OBONO ES
Country: Africa / 
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea
Description:
Treinta mujeres guineanas toman la voz en este libro para denunciar la situación de las personas LGTB en Guinea Ecuatorial. Yo tenía que haber nacido hombre para ser feliz. Creo que los hombres son felices. Y yo no lo soy. Soy una mujer». «Mi familia y yo estamos unidas por el dinero de mi pareja y de la calle que sigo haciendo. Soy como el cordón umbilical que lxs une a mi vagina, de la que esperaron dinero toda la vida». Trifonia Melibea Obono tiene un decidido compromiso feminista que pone de manifiesto las desigualdades e injusticias contra las mujeres, especialmente las lesbianas, bisexua... continue
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You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series) by Andrej Blatnik EN
SloveniaDescription:
Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who’ve never learned to listen. This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of... continue
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Yummah by Sarah A. Al Shafei EN
BahrainDescription:
Khadeeja is a child who is forced into womanhood early. She is compelled to marry a man much older than she through arranged marriage and lives a world of hardships from then on. Her mother dies soon after her wedding, leaving her with a husband she hardly knows and two brothers she knows nothing of. Khadeeja learns to love her husband and win his love in return, but just as she thought her life was a beautiful love story her precious son dies from a scorpion bite. Grief and sadness become her new best friends. Her husband, whom she can't live without, abandons her without warning and she is l... continue
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Zeit der Nordwanderung by Tajjib Salich DE
SudanDescription:
Tajjib Salichs erster Roman machte ihn über Nacht berühmt und das Buch wurde zum Kultbuch der arabischen Intellektuellen.
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Žižek's Jokes : (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?) by Slavoj Žižek EN
Description:
Žižek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”—Ludwig Wittgenstein The good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of Žižekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Žižek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual themes that preoccupy him. Žižek's Jokes contains the set-ups and punch lines—as well as the offenses and insults—that Žižek is famous for, all in less than 200 pages. So what'... continue