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Αυτό το αστέρι είναι για όλους μας by Tasos Livaditis, Τάσος Λειβαδίτης
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΤώρα θα πέφτει απότομα το βράδι.Θα βιάζονται οι άνθρωποι στους δρόμους. Οι γυναίκεςθα κλείνουν τρομαγμένες την πόρτα τους και θ’ αγκαλιάζουν τα παιδιά τους.Μα τα πεινασμένα πρόσωπα των παιδιών ρίχνουν στον τοίχο έναν ίσκιο μαύροσαν τον ίσκιο ενός ψωμιού... -
![Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova]()
Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBrings together all D.M. Thomas' acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. This volume includes "Requiem", her poem of the Stalinist Terror and "Poem Without a Hero"... -
![Three Clicks Left by Katerina Gogou, Κατερίνα Γώγου]()
Three Clicks Left by Katerina Gogou, Κατερίνα Γώγου
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the poems of Three Clicks Left, it is the plight of woman in a world of betrayed politics which forms the drama...a consistent pitch of colloquial street-lingo woo, savvy and quotidian wail... -
![شرق المتوسط by عبد الرحمن منيف]()
شرق المتوسط by عبد الرحمن منيف
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsهل يمكن أن ترمم إرادة انسان لم تعد تربطه بالحياة رابطة؟ أنا ذاك الإنسان. لا لست انساناً، السجن في أيامه الولى حاول أن يقتل جسدي. لم أكن أتصور أني أحتمل كل ما فعلوه، لكن احتملت. كانت إرادتي هي وحدها التي تتلقى الضربات، وتردها نظرات غاضبة وصمتاً. وظللت كذلك. لم أرهب، لم أتراجع: الماء البارد، ليكن. التعليق لمدة سبعة أيام، ليكن. التهديد بالقتل والرصاص حولي تناثر، ليكن. كانت ارادتي هي التي تقاوم... -
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![Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco]()
Almonds and Raisins by Maisie Mosco
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first in a trilogy about a Jewish family who flee Eastern Europe in the early 20th century and settle in Manchester, England. In the cold world of Manchester in 1905 the family Sandberg found the good things of life scarce and the hardships bitter as the chill northern winds. Sarah, the mother. A born survivor stranded in a land of strangers by the vicious tides of persecution... -
![Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.]()
Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by H.D.
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOf special significance are the "Uncollected and Unpublished Poems (1912-1944)," the third section of the book, written mainly in the 1930s, during H. D.'s supposed "fallow" period. As these pages reveal, she was in fact writing a great deal of important poetry at the time, although publishing only a small part of it... -
![Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy]()
Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, Jenny Lynn Penberthy
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home... -
![News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso]()
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico...Categorized as:
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![Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker]()
Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table... -
![Babel by Patti Smith]()
Babel by Patti Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings... -
![Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης]()
Το μεγάλο μας τσίρκο by Iakovos Kambanellis, Ιάκωβος Καμπανέλλης
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsΡΩΜΙΟΣ: Αρκετά!... Και τώρα μια τελευταία διευκρίνιση. Είπα ότι το έργο μας είναι κωμωδία. Αλλά δεν είναι απλώς διότι έτσι γράφτηκε ή διότι το λέμε εμείς. Είναι κωμωδία για έναν άλλο σοβαρότερο και πολύ πιο έγκυρο λόγο: Το δηλώσαμε ως κωμωδία, το υποβάλαμε στη λογοκρισία ως κωμωδία και ενεκρίθη ως κωμωδία δια της υπ’ αριθμόν 199 αποφάσεως... -
![Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe]()
Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOffering all the qualities of his general bestselling fiction, this is Tom Sharpe's blazing satire of South African apartheid, companion to Indecent Exposure... -
![Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets. Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here, doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see another day...Categorized as:
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![Power Politics: Poems by Margaret Atwood]()
Power Politics: Poems by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMargaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic...Categorized as:
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![The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan]()
The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHonored, during the course of her literary career, with almost every major poetry award, Louise Bogan (1898-1970) was the poetry critic for The New Yorker for nearly forty years. The Blue Estuaries contains her five previous books of verse along with a section of uncollected work, fully representing a unique and distinguished contribution to modern poetry over five decades... -
![Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini]()
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
![A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee]()
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
![Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet]()
Project for a Revolution in New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself or a foreigner's nightmare of New York as its true protagonist... -
![Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat, أليفة رفعت]()
Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories by Alifa Rifaat, أليفة رفعت
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the vil on what it means to be a women living within a traditional Muslim society." So states the translator's foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author's best short stories. Rifaat (1930-1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad... -
![Circle Game by Margaret Atwood]()
Circle Game by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as Power Politics, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace... -
![The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky]()
The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten in 1902 and produced by the Moscow Arts Theatre on December 18, 1902 under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski. It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian social realism. The play depicts a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.When it first appeared, The Lower Depths was criticized for its pessimism and ambiguous ethical message... -
![The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals by Elizabeth Smart]()
The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals by Elizabeth Smart
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElizabeth Smart was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1913. She was educated at private schools in Canada and for a year at King's College, University of London. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, she chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker - and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word... -
![Una biblioteca de verano by Mary Ann Clark Bremer]()
Una biblioteca de verano by Mary Ann Clark Bremer
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCorre el año 1946. La guerra ha terminado y la joven norteamericana narradora de esta novela ha perdido en ella a sus padres. También, de muerte natural, ha perdido a su tío Marcel, un extraordinario personaje que la educó en el amor a los libros... -
![زن زیادی by Jalal Al-e Ahmad]()
زن زیادی by Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsکتاب زن زیادی که شاید مهمترین اثر در میان همهی داستانهای کوتاه آل احمد محسوب شود، سرگذشتی است دقیق از مصائب و مشکلات زنی محروم و مطلقه که با توصیفاتی واقعی و موبهمو همراه است. شخصیت اصلی داستان، زنی است که در خانوادهای فقیر بزرگ شده و از حیث مالی، ظاهری، سواد، تجربه و… فقیر و مستضعف است... -
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![10 años con Mafalda by Quino, Esteban Busquets]()
10 años con Mafalda by Quino, Esteban Busquets
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCreated in 1964 by Quino, Mafalda appeared in various Spanish-language newspapers and weeklies until the Argentine illustrator discontinued the series in 1974. The quirky young girl became an icon throughout Latin America, similar to Charlie Brown in the United States... -
![The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde]()
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour... -
![India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar]()
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha, Edakochi Salimkumar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together... -
![We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion]()
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova, Judith Hemschemeyer]()
The Complete Poems Of Anna Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova, Judith Hemschemeyer
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians to the collective suffering of a nation Anna Akhmatova spoke to and for the soul of her people... -
![Billy and the Boingers Bootleg by Berkeley Breathed]()
Billy and the Boingers Bootleg by Berkeley Breathed
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsWith the release of this Bloom County book and the Billy and the Boingers Theme Song, chosen from the most bone-shaking, kidney-curdling entries from rock bands nationwide, Springsteen and Van Halen will become as distant a memory as Michael Jackson. 300 black-and-white and 44 color comic strips...
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