Titoli in Politica

Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her son, Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of...

Widely regarded as Vidal's ultimate comment on how the American political system degrades those who participate in it, Washington, D.C. is a stunning tale of corruption and diseased ambitions. It traces the fortunes of James Burden Day, a powerful conservative senator who is eyeing the presidency; Clay Overbury, a pragmatic young congressional aide with political aspirations of his own; and Blaise Sanford, a ruthless newspaper tycoon who understands the importance of money and image in modern politics.

America is in trouble - at the mercy of a puzzling pathogen. That ordinarily wouldn’t lead to catastrophe, thanks to modern medicine, but there’s just one problem: the government supply of Dormigen, the silver bullet of pharmaceuticals, has been depleted just as demand begins to spike. Set in the near future, The Rationing centers around a White House struggling to quell the crisis - and control the narrative.

Soois Swart se sukkelende koerantjie op Erdvark in die Knersvlakte berig sonder moderne tegnologie oor die naderende munisipale eleksie. Die regerende BA Minus is voorstanders van kleinhuisies en die opposisie vra vir spoeltoilette. Toe ’n horingadder ’n inwoner in ’n kleinhuisie pik, is die gort gaar.

Kairo, 25. Januar 2011, fünfundzwanzigtausend Menschen demonstrieren gegen Mubarak. Sie träumen von der großen Veränderung, doch während in der euphorischen Menge Liebesbeziehungen aufblühen, wird der Bürgerrechtler Khaled vor den Augen aller ermordet. Seine Freundin Dania will ihren Widerstand nicht aufgeben - und sei es gegen den eigenen Vater, den bigotten Geheimdienstchef, der islamische Werte predigt und heimlich Pornos schaut.

Il 7 ottobre 1967 Ernesto Che Guevara resta imbottigliato con un piccolo gruppo di guerriglieri in una "quebrada" della foresta. Consegnatosi ai soldati, il Che viene trasportato nel vicino paesino di La Higuera dove è rinchiuso nel locale della scuola. Il 9 ottobre a un soldato scelto a sorte tocca il compito di uccidere il ferito, il cui cadavere viene poi trasportato all'ospedale di Vallegrande per essere mostrato a fotografi e giornalisti.

Buried deep within the consciousness of Sergeant Raymond Shaw is the mechanism of an assassin, a time bomb ticking toward explosion, controlled by the delicate skill of its Communist masters. Shaw returns from the Korean War to an idolizing and unsuspecting country. What follows is at once a spy story, a love story, and a sobering, yet outrageously funny satire on demagoguery in American politics.

Una novela total: thriller con flecos esotéricos, obra de crítica política, descarnado retrato familiar y narración existencial sobre el dolor y el amor. Año 2027. Francia se prepara para unas elecciones presidenciales que es muy posible que gane una estrella de la televisión. El hombre fuerte detrás de esa candidatura es el actual ministro de Economía y Finanzas, Bruno Juge, para quien trabaja como asesor Paul Raison, el protagonista de la novela, un hombre taciturno y descreído.

A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ” A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR “Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies “Searing, exhilarating …...

"وفي بعض الصباحات الشتوية عندما تلتحف السماء بظلمة عنيدة، كنت أتسلل إلى سريرها البديل وأنا بكامل ملابسي المدرسية، ثم أتقوقع في التجويف الذي خلّفته في الملاءات...

Deportado cinco veces por cuatro presidentes peruanos, sospechoso de haber estado involucrado en tres golpes de estado en el Perú y uno en el extranjero, Eudocio Ravines, figura ácida y rutilante en la historia latinoamericana del siglo XX, aparece por doquiera que uno escarbe, conspirando, denunciando, polemizando, escaldando y sacando de quicio. Después de una relación estrecha y dramática con Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre y José Carlos Mariátegui, abandona sus roles de comisario político de alto nivel en la Internacional Comunista para combatir la ideología que antes defendía férreamente.

A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience.

“Mohammed Hanif is a brave, gifted writer.” —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil. When a major Pakistani political figure is...

A haunting, gothic love triangle set in postwar Moscow and an Arctic gulag, where forbidden passion and betrayal shape destinies and echo across decades. House of Meetings is a gothic love story, triangular in form and steeped in darkness. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threat of pogroms, two...

It seems we have not internalized the lessons of George Orwell's dystopian vision in “1984.” Now, forty years later, that terrifying notion is becoming a reality. Win, the fictional son of Winston Smith, experiences firsthand the horrors of the totalitarian system–a system that takes control of every aspect of daily life with sophisticated and cruel efficiency. A system that clutches each of us with a cold claw right now.

War on the mainland is draining Reykjavík. For some, the remote islands off Hrímland's coast are their only hope of survival. Elka, a recovering addict, has fled there with her son Sölvi. In their village they find a new life—all thanks to the Deep, a peculiar power their neighbours praise for the booming fishing industry. Everything seems perfect, but Sölvi does not trust the people who take his mother in.

Berlin im Jahr 2025. Die Gas-Lobby jubelt: Einer von ihnen soll zum Minister ernannt werden – der allseits beliebte Karsten Richter. Karstens Mutter, eine Klimaaktivistin der allerersten Generation, hat kein gutes Gefühl bei der Karriere ihres Sohnes. An ihrer Erziehung liegt es nicht, aber die Zukunft unseres Planeten liegt ihm so gar nicht am Herzen. Stattdessen persönlicher Erfolg und die Anerkennung seiner Freunde zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Der Kanzler ist alarmiert, Richter versucht, die Situation zu retten, da erhält er einen Anruf: Seine Mutter wurde entführt!

Six months ago, Mia Rhodes was a Seattle office manager, toiling away from nine to five and spending her weekends managing her online political competition, Ameritocracy. Now, that competition is spreading across the American political landscape, making Mia a celebrity and giving Ameritocracy a real shot at upending the two-party system in the 2020 election. But as the final voting draws near, Mia is betrayed by one of the people she trusts most, throwing Ameritocracy into disarray, and possibly ending her dream of changing American politics forever.

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.

Dawoud is on the run from his murky past, aiming to discover where he belongs. He tries to assimilate into different groups along his journey through North Africa and Israel, changing his clothes, his religious affiliations, and even his name to fit in, but the safety and peace he seeks remain elusive. It seems prejudice is everywhere, holding him back, when all he really wants is to create a simple life he can call his own. A chameleon, Dawoud—or David, Adal, or Dawit, depending on where and when you meet him—is not lost in this whirl of identities. In fact, he is defined by it.