Drama genre books (167)
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Anna ʹEdes by Dezső Kosztolányi EN
HungaryDescription:
Kosztolanyi, Anna Edes. Cruelty and emptiness of Bourgeois life permeate this novel.
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Anowa by Ama Ata Aidoo EN
GhanaDescription:
Based on old Ghandian leyend, Anowa is the story of a young woman who decides, against her parents wishes, to marry the man she loves. After many trials and teibulations the coupé amass a fortune-but Anowa that something, somewhere is wrong.
Greece
France15.
Any Human Heart by William Boyd EN
Description:
The author of "Armadillo, The Blue Afternoon" and "Brazzaville Beach" now pens his most entertaining, sly and compelling novel to date, a novel that evokes the tumult, events and iconic faces of our time, as it tells the story of Logan Mountstuart--writer, lover and man of the world--through his intimate journals.
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Auto da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuna PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Auto da Compadecida representa o equilíbrio perfeito entre a tradição popular e a elaboração literária ao recriar para o teatro episódios registrados na tradição popular do cordel. É uma peça teatral em forma de Auto em 3 atos, escrita em 1955 pelo autor paraibano Ariano Suassuna. Sendo um drama do Nordeste brasileiro, mescla elementos como a tradição da literatura de cordel, a comédia, traços do barroco católico brasileiro e, ainda, cultura popular e tradições religiosas. Apresenta na escrita traços de linguagem oral [demonstrando, na fala do personagem, sua classe social] e apresenta também ... continue
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Automat z wodą gazowaną z syropem lub bez. Powieść mińska by Uładzimir Niaklajeu PL
BelarusDescription:
Automat z wodą gazowaną z syropem z lub bez. Powieść mińska to drugie wydanie książki z roku 2015 o tym samym tytule. Jest to opowieść o pragnieniu wolności w Mińsku dławionym żelazną pięścią sowieckiego totalitaryzmu. W gronie stiljagów, noszących koszule w papugi i słuchających rock’n’rolla, rozgrywa się historia miłości, przyjaźni i rozczarowania. W końcu zostaje tylko bezradność po zderzeniu się z twardą rzeczywistością niczym z automatem, z którego nie da się wydusić porcji gazowanej wody. Równorzędnym bohaterem powieści jest stolica Białorusi, zamieszkana przez fascynujące postaci – ling... continue
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Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Charged with comic energy and a steely disregard for any pieties whatsoever, Barney's Version is a major Richler novel, the most personal and feeling book of a long and distinguished career. Told in the first person, it gives us the life (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy TV company, Totally Useless Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose three wives include a martyred feminist icon, a quintessential JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the perfect wife, lover, and mother--alas, now married to another man; who recalls with nostalgia and pain hi... continue
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IndiaDescription:
An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.
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PakistanDescription:
An NYRB Classics Original Basti is a beautifully written reckoning with the tragic history of Pakistan. Basti means settlement, a common place, and Intizar Husain’s extraordinary novel begins with a mythic, even mystic, vision of harmony between old and young, man and woman, Muslim and Hindu. Then Zakir, the hero, wakes to the modern world. Crowds gather. Slogans echo. Cities burn. Whether hunkered down with family or furtively meeting to exchange news with friends in cafés, Zakir is alone in a country lost to the politics of loneliness.