Drama genre books (173)
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GreeceDescription:
Aristophanes helped shape comedy.... despite their often fantasical premises, were fairly consistently concerned with contemporary politics and social institutions. ... mildly aristocratic... patriotic ... suspicious of social innovation.... sympathetic to the struggles of the common people.... unrestrained in insult...exuberantly bawdy.
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Maps by Nuruddin Farah EN
SomaliaDescription:
A Somali youth is torn between duty to family and country. On the one hand Askar, an orphan, should look after his foster mother, on the other he wants to be a man and emulate his father who died fighting the Ethiopians. By an English-speaking Somali writer, author of Secrets.
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Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller EN
GermanyDescription:
This work details the dramatic final days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The action opens with Mary's unjust imprisonment and ends with her execution, which is ultimately ordered by Mary's morally conflicted cousin, Queen Elizabeth of England. Schiller's play is widely regarded as one of the finest literary distillations of these controversial historical events, and the text served as the basis for the opera Maria Stuarda.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina96.
Milkman by Anna Burns EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
THERE WERE 'OUR SHOPS' AND 'THEIR SHOPS'. PLACENAMES. WHAT SCHOOL YOU WENT TO. WHAT PRAYERS YOU SAID...YOU CREATED A POLITICAL STATEMENT EVERYWHERE YOU WENT, AND WITH EVERYTHING YOU DID, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO... In Northern Ireland, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be... continue
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Miss Sara Sampson by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing DE
Description:
Ein Gasthof in England. Der Vater von Miss Sara reist mit seinem Diener Waitwell an. Der Plan: Er holt Sara zurück und versöhnt sich. Dass er zuvor ihren Liebhaber nicht akzeptiert hat, kam nicht gut an. Es gilt nun zu retten, was zu retten ist - will er sonst etwa im Alter alleine sein? Sara ist derweil auf dem Weg nach Frankreich, um dort ihren Geliebten zu heiraten - der hadert mittlerweile und verzögert die Ausreise. Wird das ein gutes Ende nehmen? Es handelt sich um ein Trauerspiel, nicht etwa ein Lustspiel... Gröls-Verlag (Edition Werke der Weltliteratur)
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Mon frère by Jamaica Kincaid FR
Country: North America / 
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Jamaica Kincaid raconte la disparition de son frère, mort du sida à l'âge de trente-trois ans, à Antigua, une petite lie des Antilles. Avec délicatesse, avec précision, parfois avec une brutalité inouïe, elle décrit ce qu'elle voit, ce qu'elle ressent. Elle s'efforce de comprendre pourquoi cet événement l'oblige à repenser toute sa vie, et avec elle celle de sa famille. " Pour moi, dit-elle, l'écriture n'est pas un moyen de se projeter dans la sphère publique, mais simplement une façon d'être. C'est un processus toujours très douloureux, mais je l'accepte comme une réalité qui ne doit pas être... continue
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Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa EN
KuwaitDescription:
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppression OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 'A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure' Michael Palin 'Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior' Alice Walker _____________________________________ Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms – and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed f... continue