Títulos en Política

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, written and read by Arundhati Roy. FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL...

1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order after the Shah’s expulsion. He tells of sparking hope, of clandestine political actions, and of how he finds the love of his life in the courageous, intelligent Nahid. 1989. Nahid lives her new life in West Germany with Behsad. With their young children, they spend hour after hour in front of the radio, hoping for news from others who went into hiding after the mullahs came to power.

When a brilliant young pilot uncovers a deadly conspiracy, she becomes the next target in a game she never agreed to play. In a busy outdoor market, an ordinary woman is assassinated in broad daylight. Twelve years later, the killer is back with a new target—and a mysteriously sinister employer…

Vaasa hat Reids Leben gerettet – doch zu einem hohen Preis: Als Gefangene des dunklen Magiers Ozik wurde sie von ihrem Hexenzirkel, ihrer Magie und ihrer großen Liebe Reid getrennt und soll nun als Oziks Marionette auf dem Thron von Asteria sitzen. Während Ozik seine Intrigen spinnt, muss Vaasa mit allen Mitteln kämpfen, um ihre Magie, ihr Herz und ihre Freiheit zurückzugewinnen. Reid setzt derweil Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung, um Vaasa zu retten, und führt Krieg gegen Asteria. Doch als ihm die Verbündeten wegbrechen, muss er sich allein hinter die feindlichen Linien schleichen.

One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name. This rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colourful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust.

Al desolado Madrid de la posguerra llega un joven sacerdote polaco, Stefan Berman, acogido por la Iglesia católica en calidad de refugiado huido del comunismo de su país. Con la intransigencia de la jerarquía religiosa como telón de fondo, se ve envuelto en un mundo de maquinaciones políticas, delación y chantaje que le arrastran en una vertiginosa sucesión de acontecimientos que no será capaz de controlar.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

Brought to you by Penguin. When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an...

El banquero anarquista (1922) es un relato de argumentación en el que la trama narrativa casi no existe en favor del juego dialéctico, la contradicción, la paradoja y la sutileza literaria. Todo se centra en dos personajes, de los que muy poco sabremos, sentados frente a frente, en un pequeño drama estático en el que uno de ellos trata de justificar mediante una cabriola lógica, llena de cargas de profundidad, su doble y sincera adscripción al auténtico anarquismo y al capitalismo más feroz.

March 1917 tells the story of the Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of events. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire begins to crumble. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition, horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a Soviet alternative to undermine it.

In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work...

Simpatía is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Two other events end up disrupting his life even further: the return of Nadine, an unrequited love from the past, and the death of his father-in-law, General Martín Ayala.

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision and try to create such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.

La década del 70 en la Argentina ha sido uno de sus períodos más terribles y violentos. Dos bandos en pugna desataron una serie de actos de violencia que amenazaron y dañaron la estructura básica de la sociedad argentina. Derechos y Humanos es una ficción dramática que recrea los acontecimientos desarrollados en la ESMA durante los años de la dictadura.

In 1931, young English-born missionary Jakob Kellner brings all the crusading passion of his untried Christian faith to a China racked by famine and bloody civil war. He burns to save the world's largest nation from Communism. But when he is swept along on the cold, unforgiving Long March, Jakob becomes entangled with Mei-ling, a beautiful and fervent revolutionary. Soon, powerful new emotions challenge and reshape his faith—and entrap him forever in the vast country's tortured destiny.

Der Untergeher – eine menschliche Komödie in vier Jahreszeiten London, Donnerstag, 20. Mai 2021, die Temperatur beträgt 16 Grad, es ist heiter, später gibt es Schauer. Als Campell Flynn, 52 Jahre alt und auf der Höhe seines Ruhms als öffentlicher Intellektueller, an diesem Tag aus dem...

A cadre of philanthropic billionaires contract a man to establish a new paradigm of prosperity in impoverished countries. He is a renaissance man with the iron will of a K2 mountaineer and the killer instincts of a Navy SEAL. One man armed with an idea who is collision bound with a murderous ruling class while the world sits on the powder keg of systemic corruption.

From Trisha Sakhlecha, Can You See Me Now? is a gripping psychological suspense thriller about a young Indian woman, now a government minister, whose past secrets are about to reverberate into the present and shatter her life. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and Erin Kelly. 'Deceptively clever'...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, combining "elements of a murder mystery, a searing political satire and an Alice in Wonderland-like modern allegory of power and deceit" (Los Angeles Times). In an...

What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? Can we even meet each other's eye, after we have seen who we really are? Fearless and original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, and a vivid journey into the depths and contradictions of the human soul.