Titoli in Politica

In this rousing novel, the action sweeps from the Oval Office to a Navy SEAL assault on a remote Indonesian Island, from the court-martial of an admiral to the impeachment hearings of a peacenik President.

Membres del club d’aficionats del Hajduk, bèsties humanes, combatents decebuts i nans que, com en un projecte d’estat secret, eliminen les mines i transformen els racons oblidats d’Eslavònia en un paradís turístic... tots aquests reis menors de corones rovellades tenen el mèrit de fer que l’excursió cap al fràgil castell aeri de la prosa de Malkoč, esdevingui un viatge del qual no volem (ni podem) tornar.

Barcelona, primavera de 1941. Martín Marín és un jove falangista extremeny que arriba a la ciutat per incorporar-se al cos de policia. Va ple d’ideals i de projectes, i està decidit a participar activament en la construcció de la Nova Espanya. Però allò que troba Marín és una ciutat en runes, miserable i amb les ferides de la guerra encara obertes. Esgarrifat, es topa amb l’estraperlo i la prostitució, que omplen els carrers, i alhora intueix que els vencedors no posen prou energia en el redreçament de la moral.

Un candidat decideix presentar-se a les primàries del seu partit. L'aparició de la seva exdona, la traïció de més d'un amic i els intents de la premsa per desemmascarar-lo s'interposaran en el seu camí, però això no aturarà el Candidat en la cursa per aconseguir, a qualsevol preu, el seu objectiu. Xantatges, espionatge, cinisme, misteriosos robatoris i moltes, moltes mentides...Tot s'hi val en la lluita del poder.

En un país ficticio situado en América del Sur, asistimos a la desaparición de un embajador norteamericano. Pronto sabremos que ha sido raptado por una fuerza armada que pretende derrocar al gobierno actual en el país. Tendremos una visión caleidoscópica del conflicto desde los puntos de vista de un periodista nortamericano será el encargado de realizar las negociaciones con la fuerza armada, la hija de unos latifundistas locales, un artista o uno de los guerrilleros.

Solo un perro viejo en viajes y experiencias por todo el mundo como Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa puede presentarnos una novela como "Adiós, Mr. Trump". Con una maestría apabullante a la hora de mezclar ficción y realidad, el autor nos presenta el entramado de intereses financieros y comerciales entre Estados Unidos y México a través de la figura de su presidente, en una trama que mezcla narcos, inmigrantes, arquitectos, políticos y una enorme obra de ingeniería que supondrá crear un canal interoceánico que atraviese México para unir el Atlántico y el Pacífico.

Tierra Virgen aborda una de las obsesiones más presentes en la carrera literaria de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa: el ecologismo. En ella seguiremos a un veterano de la guerra de Vietnam que decide dejar su vida de privilegios y unirse a los yubani en sus territorios de la tierra amazónica. Sin embargo, pronto la situación se torcerá con la aparición de ingenieros blancos que pretenden partir en dos las tierras yubani con la construcción de una carretera. La extinción amenaza al pueblo yubani, y quizá lo único que pueda salvarlos sea nuestro protagonista.

Kalashnikov comienza con un llamamiento del Parlamento Europeo para que se capture al mayor criminal de guerra que existe, Joseph Kony, de quien se sabe que, además de asesinar, violar y esclavizar a miles de niños, los emplea como soldados de su ejército. A la vista de la impotencia de las instituciones, un pequeño grupo de eurodiputados decide contravenir las leyes que han jurado defender.

La revolución feminista será violenta o no será. Una novela divertida, sorprendente y provocadora. Al conocer a una importante activista del movimiento feminista, el protagonista de esta novela, un hombre contemporáneo que se considera igualitario, se da cuenta de que el mundo aún no está...

La insurrecta narra la emocionante vida de quien fuera la esposa de Mariano Abasolo y una de las mujeres más valientes y apasionadas de su tiempo. Una vez más, Guillermo Barba nos ofrece una estupenda novela de intrigas donde se funden la historia y el suspenso para narrar un pasaje, tan...

In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that doesn’t change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.

When the liberal government falls and neither party is able to form a cabinet, Plantagenet Palliser is called upon to lead a coalition government. He is reluctant at first, and displays none of the charisma of his predecessors, but eventually he grows into the role. However, his confidence is short-lived as he becomes embroiled in a scandal involving the villainous Ferdinand Lopez - unintentionally brought about by Lady Glencora Palliser. Pronounced "a beautiful book" by Leo Tolstoy, The Prime Minister is a superb portrait of marriage and politics.

When stress causes an old trauma to surface, Lucy, a longtime community organizer, teacher, and anti-poverty activist, loses control of her life. On probation and living on the streets of Halifax’s North End, all she has left is friends. Faithful friends like Judith, her lawyer, who is helping her take back her life. Lucy begins to regularly sneak into Judith’s basement to take refuge from the cold, but Lucy’s presence in the house betrays their friendship, and she uncovers mysteries from Judith’s past.

Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur’s West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict.

With a nod to Samuel Beckett and Bohumil Hrabal, a young dramatist from a West African nation describes a student protest against a brutal oligarchy and its crushing aftermath. While distributing leaflets with provocative quotations from Beckett, Ito Baraka is taken to a camp where torture, starvation, beatings, and rape are normal. Forced to inform on his friends, whose fates he now fears, and released a broken man, he is enabled to escape to Quebec. His one goal is to tell the story of the protest and pay homage to Koli Lem, a teacher, cellmate, and lover of books....

A young Lithuanian immigrant, full of hope, arrives in Chicago in 1904 to work in the stockyards. He and his family soon find themselves processed like the very cattle they slaughter, by the system they dreamed would save them.

What happens when you realize that you’re at the mercy of powers greater than yourself? What happens when these powers flex their muscles and, overnight, turn the entire world on its head? What happens when, in a twist of fate, these same powers offer you a lifeline; an invitation into their exclusive club? Do you accept? Join Alex Watson as he enters the darkness of an unseen world, where the "dominant few" do as they please to the "inferior many" that live beneath them. For the insiders, there is unimaginable freedom, wealth, and power.

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....

In Aleppo, irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s and 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of This City unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society.

En una Varsovia ocupada por el ejército alemán, el pequeño Pawel -imaginativo, curioso e impresionable- crece protegido en el ambiente familiar de su hogar, rodeado de mujeres: su abuela materna, su tía Joanna y, sobre todo, su madre Zofia, una mujer dividida entre el amor a su hijo y el pesar por la pérdida de independencia que la maternidad le impone, alejándola de su chelo, de sus añoradas lecturas y, en definitiva, de su yo más íntimo. Para Pawel, ese hogar es su mundo, y está a punto de perderlo.