Books written by male authors (5177)
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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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You Dreamed of Empires : A Novel by Álvaro Enrigue EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Enrigue’s genius lies in his ability to bring readers close to its tangled knot of priests, mercenaries, warriors and princesses while adding a pinch of biting humor." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times “Riotously entertaining... A triumph of solemnity-busting erudition and mischievous invention that will delight and titillate.” --Financial Times From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enter... continue
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You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming EN
EnglandDescription:
After the murder of his wife Tracy, Bond begins to let his life slide--drinking and gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments. M gives him a last chance to redeem himself with a nearly impossible mission in Japan. He is challenged by the Head of the Japanese Secret Service to kill Dr Guntram Shatterhand. Bond soon realises Shatterhand is none other than his previous adversary Ernst Blofeld who was responsible for killing Tracy. Be sure that Bond will outwit his enemy--but at what cost?
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You Shall Leave Your Land by Renato Cisneros EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Renato Cisneros's great-great-grandmother Nicolasa bore seven children by her priest, raising them alone in nineteenth century Peru. More than a century later, Renato struggles to wring information about his origins out of recalcitrant relatives, whose foibles match the adventures and dalliances of their ancestors. As buried secrets are brought into the light and is bound up with key moments in the development of the Republic of Peru since it won independence.
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You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann EN
GermanyDescription:
A thrilling exploration of psychological disturbance and fear from the bestselling and prize-winning author of Measuring the World. On retreat in the wintry Alps with his family, a writer is optimistic about completing the sequel to his breakthrough film. Nothing to disturb him except the wind whispering around their glassy house. The perfect place to focus. Intruding on that peace of mind, the demands of his four-year-old daughter splinter open long-simmering arguments with his wife. I love her, he writes in the notebook intended for his script. Why do we fight all the time? Guilt and expecta... continue
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You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris EN
FranceDescription:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wife’s killers, which he posted on Facebook. He refused to be cowed or to let his seventeen-month-old son’s life be defined by Hélène’s murder. He refused... continue
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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart EN
ScotlandDescription:
The brilliant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
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Your Absence Is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kalman Stefànsson Jã3n EN
IcelandDescription:
"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods "Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS "A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefánsson is a writer of great scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul "Stefánsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour" BOYD TONKIN, Spectator A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists. A man comes t... continue
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Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone : A Novel by Stefan Kiesbye EN
Description:
Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eeril... continue
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Your personal leadership guide by Ntangeki Nshala EN
TanzaniaDescription:
This book is for YOUTH. Those in Secondary school or College. While our YOUTH are schools they are taught in curriculum that prepares them to become skilled to perform certain professional tasks. ..like being a Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Accountant..etc. very few schools focus their efforts to shape the character of these YOUTH to grow up into responsible people who can use their knowledge, skills and energy for the general benefit of their families and community at large. In this book I talk to YOUTH about habits that need to be developed and which will be useful as they grow up and navigate t... continue