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On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations....

Only four years after publishing his fable Animal Farm, a biting satire of Joseph Stalin’s horrific regime of terror, George Orwell turned his attention to the future. But his next book was to be no satire, no fable. What emerged from Orwell’s pen in 1949 was the most grimly dystopian novel ever written: 1984.

It’s 1994, and the former Yugoslavia is being torn apart. In England a gang of good-hearted young people are about to set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. A play which will light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war.

In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious philanderer - a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may be all bark and no bite.

In Machiavelli Nation, Steven Hannum presents a chilling vision of a society engineered for control—where governments, corporations, and media function as interlocking mechanisms designed to extract obedience, labor, and wealth from the many for the benefit of the few.

Truth, fairness, and humanity are among the very few principles of journalism. The code of ethics is a must for every journalist to follow. Shikha is one such journalist with the biggest dreams and aspirations. At the early age of thirty, she is offered a live interview with the home minister of...

Ein Doppelagent will in Kasachstan ein letztes großes Ding drehen, ein Dichter hofft auf das Abenteuer seines Lebens und eine Italienischlehrerin versucht, das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Der junge Dichter wird in Rom für sein Werk gefeiert, der Kalte Krieg ist endlich Geschichte und die russische Botschaft lädt zum Gartenfest mit Krimsekt und Piroggen. Germeshausen braucht einen Plan, so viel steht fest. Und er braucht Jakob Dreiser. Denn für seinen großen Coup gibt es keine bessere Tarnung als einen international gefeierten Dichter.

L'avvocato del diavolo immagina un futuro distopico in cui la Russia è governata da un nuovo regime dopo l'improvvisa caduta del Leader Nazionale, chiara trasfigurazione dell'attuale presidente Putin. Quando Boris Turgencikov, uno scrittore dissidente perseguitato dal vecchio esecutivo, torna in Russia per assistere ai cambiamenti messi in atto al suono dello slogan "Onore e Onestà", resta invischiato in una surreale vicenda giudiziaria.

Nur and Abid relearn to love after they escape from war. Marie, who keeps the women of the village from giving birth to children borne of war, finds herself in a situation she hasn't faced before. In a London park, an ageing MI-6 official discovers that the woman he meets every day may not be what she seems. Lyndsey's bouquets of twenty-seven tulips hold the secret of her dark past and a soldier adorns herself in jewels as she prepares for a final mission.

Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now reissued in audio. He schemed his way to power in ‘House of Cards’ and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King’...

Brought to you by Penguin. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation...

Neste clássico moderno traduzido pela primeira vez para o português, Montserrat Roig examina como os acontecimentos políticos são capazes de moldar toda uma geração. É primavera de 1974, e Natàlia Miralpeix acaba de voltar a Barcelona depois de mais de uma década vivendo entre a França e a Inglaterra. O regime franquista está próximo do fim, e uma atmosfera de mudança cultural e política impregna a cidade.

After one and a half centuries since the last national US catastrophe, a civil war, the oldest continuous democracy has eroded from within the government itself. There are a multitude of reasons that led to the disunion amounting to a fragmentation of the country. Once again, “we the people” encroach a paramount decision.

ESTA NO ES LA HISTORIA DE UN ESCÁNDALO, SINO DE UN CLIMA RUIDOSO, DE DERRIBO Y DE CALVARIO. La derrota íntima del poder político en una ciudad que vivía años dorados, o de purpurina, hasta que una detonación periodística y judicial destapó la fragilidad de los triunfadores. Un relato...

Komm mit auf meine Reise durch ein Leben unter vielen in der neuen Welt. Erlebe mit mir, wie alte Probleme gelöst werden und die Menschheit gemeinsam glücklicher wird. Sei gespannt darauf zu erfahren, welche Innovationen unsere Zukunft retten können. Mein Leben in der neuen Welt zeigt Dir, wie die Sachbuchreihe Machtübergabe in der Realität der nahen Zukunft umgesetzt werden könnte.

累計15万部突破！　“替え玉総理”が政治を大胆に動かしていく人気小説第2弾！ 売れない舞台役者・加納慎策が、病に倒れた内閣総理大臣・真垣統一郎と瓜二つの容姿と精緻なものまね芸を併せ持つという理由で、真垣の“替え玉総理”を秘密裏に務めることになって２年。

Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved most in the world. Today, her eight-year-old son Luca is all she has left. For him, she will carry a machete strapped to her leg. For him, she will leap onto the roof of a high speed train. For him, she will find the strength to keep running.

An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master’s Son—that exposes the oppressive and...

A man and his son dreamed of America’s freedom, but the dream became a nightmare when they ended up at Guantánamo Bay. Hasan Makari and his son, Najib, both Lebanese nationals, have dreamed of the day they would experience the shining freedom of America. But when they arrive in the US, they...

இக்கதை சுதந்திர போராட்ட காலத்தில் நடக்கிறது. சுதந்திரத்துடன் வந்த பிரிவினையின்போது மக்களின் மனநிலை எவ்வாறு...