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Shivaji: The Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShrimanyogi is a biographical work on the life and the achievements of the great Maratha king, Chatrapathi Shivaji. Shivaji has been a legendary figure in the Indian history.Shivaji was one of the major influences on the revival of nationalism and Hindu culture during a period when centuries of rule by Muslim invaders had induced a condition of apathy and indifference in the people... -
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ಆವರಣ [Aavarana] by S.L. Bhyrappa, ಎಸ್.ಎಲ್. ಭೈರಪ್ಪ
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAavarana (Kannada: ಆವರಣ) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. Aavarana means enveloping or covering something. This novel deals with the historical period in Indian history when the Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb ruled most part of India. Aavarana was sold out even before its release in February 2007... -
A Man by Oriana Fallaci
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives." (quote from the book)The book is a pseudo-biography about Alexandros Panagoulis written in the form of a novel. Fallaci had an intense romantic relationship with Panagoulis... -
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The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state...Categorized as:
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يسمعون حسيسها by أيمن العتوم
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsخلف الوادي انتشرت أشجار هرمة . إلا انها ظلت خضراء على طول عمرها الذي تجاوز مئات السنين . -
Um Mundo Sem Fim, Volume II by Ken Follett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNão é apenas em Espanha que Ken Follett é um autor bestseller, vendendo cerca de 575.000 exemplares em apenas três dias. Noutros países, como Itália e Alemanha o feito repete-se e por cá, em Portugal, os leitores começam a ganhar avanço e a percorrer as páginas volumosas de um autor de culto...Categorized as:
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Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKinfolk is the story of a Chinese family. Dr. Liang moves to America in search of a better life, but his children long to return to China. Each responds to their new life in China differently, providing rich insight into the struggles between Eastern and Western culture, and the differences between generations...Categorized as:
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Жестокий Век by Исай Калашников
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsВойско Чингисхана подобно вулканической лаве сметало на своем пути все живое: истребляло народы, превращало в пепел цветущие цивилизации. Вершитель этого жесточайшего абсурда — Чингисхан — и чудовище и гениальный полководец. "Жестокий век" — это молниеносные степные переходы, дымы кочевий, необузданная, вольная жизнь, где неразлучны опасность и удача... -
The Fourth Peshwa by Ranjit Desai, रणजित देसाई
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Maratha empire that Chhatrapati Shivaji established in 1680 passed into the hands of the Peshwas in the 18th century. The empire, which spanned across large parts of Western, Central and Northern India, suffered a severe setback when the Marathas lost the third battle of Panipat to Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1761... -
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A Mind at Peace by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLibrarian note: Alternate cover edition of: 9780976395096Set on the eve of World War II, A Mind at Peace captures the anxieties of a Turkish family facing the difficult reality entrenched in the early republic, founded on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire in 1923... -
Arus Balik by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSemasa jaya Majapahit, Nusantara merupakan kesatuan maritim dan kerajaan laut terbesar di antara bangsa-bangsa beradab di muka bumi. Arus bergerak dari selatan ke utara, segalanya: kapal-kapalnya, manusianya, amal perbuatannya dan cita-citanya, semuanya bergerak dari Nusantara di selatan ke atas angin di utara. Tetapi jaman berubah... -
DUISHEN by Chingiz Aitmatov
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe book tells the story of Altyani, a teacher, who, inspired by the great Russian leader Lenin, decides to open a primary school in his native village and holds his forte despite resistance from all... -
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The Tree with a Thousand Apples by Sanchit Gupta
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspired by true events, this riveting narrative traces the lives of Safeena Malik, Deewan Bhat and Bilal Ahanagar, three childhood friends who grow up in an atmosphere of peace and amity in Srinagar, Kashmir, until the night of 20 January 1990 changes it all... -
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić, Joseph Hitrec
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSet in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleanic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtley, Tolstoyan. In its portray of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant...Categorized as:
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Εντολή by Διδώ Σωτηρίου, Dido Sotiriou
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΗ «Εντολή» της Διδώς Σωτηρίου είναι ένα βιβλίο πολιτικής λογοτεχνίας με καυτά βιώματα. Ζωντανεύει μυθιστορηματικά τις περιπέτειες της μεταπελευθερωτικής Ελλάδας ( 1944-1952 ), που δεν έπαψε να ‘χει τη μοίρα του Σίσυφου... -
Success by Lion Feuchtwanger
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn enthralling roman à clé depicting the rise of Nazi ideology in Germany. Martin Krüger, a museum director in Munich, has become quite unpopular and some people would like to be rid of him. Consequently, the lawsuit against him does not turn out to his favor. However, his friends keep fighting to prove his innocence. "The novel Success is more than a 'documentation of Bavaria... -
Presidential Mission by Upton Sinclair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith America at war, Lanny Budd risks life and limb from North Africa to Moscow on behalf of the Allied cause Members of the German high command believe that American art expert Lanny Budd is sympathetic to their cause, but since 1938 he has been an undercover agent working for President Franklin Roosevelt...Categorized as:
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The Case of Cem by Вера Мутафчиева, Vera Mutafchieva
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsVera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem , presented as a series of depositions by historical figures before a court, tells a straightforward tale: Upon the death of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror in 1481, his eldest son Bayezid takes the throne...Categorized as:
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The Death Ship by B. Traven
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Death Ship tells the story of an American sailor, stateless and penniless because he has lost his passport, who is harassed by police and hounded across Europe until he finds an 'illegal' job shoveling coal in the hold of a steamer bound for destruction.The Death Ship is the first of B... -
Peter the First by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold in its native country over two million copies. Alexey Tolstoy (who was not related to the author of War and Peace) began to study the character of his hero, Peter the First, in 1917... -
Tamas by Bhisham Sahni
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsClassic novel on partition, based on riots in 1947.The book is about the exodus of a Sikh and Hindu family to India, in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan, at the time of Partition of India in 1947. It shows a gruesome side of politics, and the compassionate side of humanity that survives any carnage...Categorized as:
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حديث الجنود by أيمن العتوم
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsمفتاح الثورة كلمة، وتصنع الثورة كلمة: (العدو من أماكم والبحر من ورائكم)، وأول الرسالة كلمة:(اقرأ)، وأول الرحمة كلمة: (كوني برداً وسلاما)، واعظم العذاب كلمة: (اخسؤوا فيها ولا تكلمون)، وأشد الحسرة كلمة: (سلام عليكِ .. -
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മയ്യഴിപ്പുഴയുടെ തീരങ്ങളിൽ | Mayyazhipuzhayude Theerangalil by M. Mukundan
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMayyazhippuzhayude Theerangalil (On the Banks of the River Mayyazhi) is a Malayalam language novel by M. Mukundan. Widely regarded as the author's magnum opus, the novel vividly describes the political and social background of Mahe (Mayyazhi), the former French colony, in the past, in a mystical way.[1] The novel was translated into English and French, both the versions winning accolades... -
Mary Ann's Angels by Catherine Cookson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMary Ann has twins, one of whom is talkative and the other not. Her husband decides a separation is needed but Mary Ann will not hear of it. This seemingly small quarrel leads to an explosive situation when Rose Mary disappears... -
A World to Win by Upton Sinclair
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPresidential secret agent Lanny Budd is targeted by allies and enemies alike as the deadly tide of war rolls across Europe Europe, 1940. As war rages across the continent, America watches anxiously from the sidelines. And President Franklin Roosevelt has been keeping an even closer eye on developments in the Third Reich...Categorized as:
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Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Where the Air Is Clear," Carlos Fuentes's first novel, is an unsparing portrayal of Mexico City's upper class. Departing from a traditional linear narrative, Fuentes overlays Mexican myths onto contemporary settings, showing that even the rich and powerful must succumb to the indomitable spirit of Mexico, which undermines all institutions and shapes all destinies... -
موت سرير رقم 12 by غسان كنفاني, Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"موت سرير رقم 12" هي المجموعة القصصية الأولى التي أصدرها غسان كنفاني. وقد صدرت في بيروت عام 1961 بمقدمة قصيرة كتبها المؤلف يقول فيها: "أنا أؤمن أن الكتاب يجب أن يقدم نفسه، وإذا عجز عن إحراز جزء من طموح كاتبه، فعلى الكاتب أن يقبل ذلك ببساطة، كما قبل -مرات ومرات- أن يمزق قصصاً ليعيد كتابتها... -
Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events...Categorized as:
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வேங்கையின் மைந்தன் [Vengaiyin Maindhan] by Akilan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsவேங்கையின் மைந்தன் புதினம் கற்பனையோடு கலந்து எழுதப்பட்ட வரலாற்றுப் புதினம் என்றாலும் அது நிகழும் காலக்கட்டத்தில் வாழ்ந்த வரலாற்றுக் கதாப்பாத்திரங்களைச் சுற்றிச் சுழல்வதாக அமைகிறது.விஜயாலய சோழன்(கி.பி 847 - 871) பல்லவர்களும் பாண்டியர்களும் பலமாக இருந்த காலத்தில் அவர்களை வென்று சோழர்களின் பொற்கால ஆட்சியை தோற்றுவித்த பெருமைக்குரியவர்... -
Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . ."Clara Perez is a reporter on a small South seas island. An orphan raised by nuns, she is a young woman with origins shrouded in mystery...Categorized as:
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For Those Who Dare by John Anthony Miller
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEast Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed, and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin that needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go.Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin...Categorized as:
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Breast Stories by Mahasweta Devi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Translated and introduced by Gayatry Chakravorty Spivak*As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak points out in her introduction, the breast is far more than a symbol in these stories - it is the means of harshly indicting an explotative social system...Categorized as:
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The Long Journey of Poppie Nongena by Elsa Joubert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVoted one of the hundred most important books published in Africa during the last century. Winner of the WA Hofmeyr Prize, the CNA Literary Award and the Louis Luyt Prize...Categorized as:
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أم سعد by غسان كنفاني, Ghassan Kanafani
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsأم سعد هي "صوت تلك الطبقة الفلسطينية التي دفعت غالياً ثمن الهزيمة. والتي تقف الآن تحت سقف البؤس الواطئ في الصف العالي من المعركة، وتدفع، وتظل تدفع أكثر من الجميع... -
Camelot's Cousin by David R. Stokes
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN B009F1GPFY moved to the most recent edition50 Years After the Kennedy Assassination, We Know When and Where--Now a Spy Novel May Explain WHY...When a Dad tries to dig a hole in his Northern Virginia yard to bury the remains of the family pet, he chances upon a mysterious briefcase. Its contents include a journal with cryptic writing...Categorized as:
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Empire by Gore Vidal
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries... -
Osmancık by Tarık Buğra
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Osmanlı'nın sırrı nedir?" sorusunun cevabını arayan yazarın Osmanlı kuruluş döneminin dinamiklerini ve felsefesini bugünkü dille inşa ettiği romandır. Duvarları süsleyen "Ey Osmancık; beğsin... -
My Splendid Concubine by Lloyd Lofthouse
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo Westerner has ever achieved Robert Hart's status and level of power in China. During the nineteenth century, driven by a passion for his adopted country, Hart became the "godfather of China's modernism," inspector general of China's Customs Service, and the builder of China's railroads, postal and telegraph systems, and schools, but his first real love is Ayaou, a young concubine...Categorized as:
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Down Fall by Per Olov Enquist
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPasqual Pinon var född med två huvuden. Det andra huvudet var ett kvinnohuvud. Han - eller de - visades upp på cirkusar under 1920-talet. De var ett par som bokstavligen förenades av kött och blod.P.O. Enquists särartade roman från 1985 - som har tematiska likheter med hans Boken om Blanche och Marie - handlar om kärleken när den har blivit ett beroende man inte längre kan ta ställning till... -
The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Ruth Hull Chatlien
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGold Medal Winner, Historical Fiction Personage, 2014 Readers’ Favorite AwardsFirst Place Winner, Turn of the 19th Century, 2014 Chaucer Awards for Historical FictionTell the emperor that Madame Bonaparte is ambitious and demands her rights as a member of the imperial family... -
Jews Without Money by Michael Gold
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the author's only novel--is a passionate record of the times...Categorized as:
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Unmasked by Virginia Henley
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThirteen years ago, Alex Greysteel Montgomery, an Earl and double agent-now working to restore King Charles II to the throne-was betrothed to the impetuous Velvet Cavendish. Their parents saw the engagement as a business opportunity-and although Greysteel has always had an affinity for Velvet, she has not returned his affections... -
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like—to get to the roots of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last three years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey...Categorized as:
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تحت شمس الضحى by Ibrahim Nasrallah, إبراهيم نصر الله
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsالناشر:يشتغل إبراهيم نصر الله على أنموذجة بإخلاص وإيمان بأصالة وقيمة وضرورة ما ينتج. عمله مصيري في بعث فلسطين -التاريخ والجغرافيا والروح والأمل- في إبداعه لغة ومكاناً وزماناً وتشكيلاً، وهوي ستغرق عميقاً في عالم الكتابة ويسعى دوماً إلى تجديد أدواته باتجاه أسلوبية تعبيرية أرقى في الشعر والسدر الورائي، ويستعيد ثقافته السينمائية ليحظى بهذا التلاقي الخلاق بين فن الكتابة وفن السينما... -
The Pyramid by Ismail Kadare
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the Albanian writer who has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize comes a hypnotic narrative of ancient Egypt, a work that is at once a historical novel and an exploration of the horror of untrammeled state power. It is 2600 BC. The Pharaoh Cheops is inclined to forgo the construction of a pyramid in his honor, but his court sages hasten to persuade him otherwise... -
Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA contemporary romantic Australian masterpiece, Grand Days tells of the moral and sexual awakening of an idealistic young Australian woman working in the diplomatic corps in Europe in the aftermath of World War I.On a train from Paris to Geneva, Edith Campbell Berry meets Major Ambrose Westwood in the dining car, and allows him to kiss her passionately...Categorized as:
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1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMoravia's political fable about an Italian anti-Fascist and the frightened, suicide-seeking German girl he encounters on a boat to Capri--the setting of Moravia's Il disprezzo from 1954--was welcomed as one of his finest novels...Categorized as:
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Claude Gueux by Victor Hugo
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Claude Gueux" was a short story written by Victor Hugo in 1834. It is considered an early example of "true crime" fiction, and contains Hugo's early thoughts on societal injustice which thirty years later he would flesh out in his novel Les Miserables...Categorized as:
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