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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love; and the murderous consequences of love’s absence.

In 1799, as the British Army fights its way through India toward a diabolical trap, the young and illiterate private Richard Sharpe must battle both man and beast behind enemy lines.

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A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot: Michela Wrong's vision of Congo/Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive, ironic and revelatory. Mr Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was first published, Michela Wrong revisits the Congo during the turbulent era of Mobutu Sese Seko. From the heart of Africa comes grotesque confusion: pink-lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with track-suited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through vintage wines rather than leave them to the new regime. Congo, the African country richest in natural resources, has institutionalised kleptomania. Everyone is on the take. Someone has even swiped one of the uranium rods from the country's only nuclear reactor. Having presided over unprecedented looting of the country's wealth, Mobutu, like Kurtz, retreated deep within the jungle to his palace of marble floors and gold taps. A hundred years on and nothing has changed.

Cora é escrava numa plantação de algodão no Estado sulista da Geórgia. A vida é um inferno para todos os escravos, mas particularmente difícil para Cora. Abandonada pela mãe, ela cresce no meio da mais difícil solidão, a dos que são marginalizados pelos seus iguais. Quando Caesar, um jovem escravo acaba de chegar do Estado vizinho da Virgínia, lhe fala da estrada subterrânea, os dois decidem correr um risco fatal e fogem da plantação, rumo ao Norte e à Liberdade. Nessa madrugada de mau presságio, inicia-se uma fuga sangrenta, uma odisseia de esperança e de desilusão.

This is the first unexpurgated English edition of Curzio Malaparte’s legendary work The Skin. The book begins in 1943, with Allied forces cementing their grip on the devastated city of Naples. The sometime Fascist and ever-resourceful Curzio Malaparte is working with the Americans as a liaison officer. He looks after Colonel Jack Hamilton, “a Christian gentleman . . . an American in the noblest sense of the word,” who speaks French and cites the classics and holds his nose as the two men tour the squalid streets of a city in ruins where liberation is only another word for desperation. Veterans of the disbanded Italian army beg for work. A rare specimen from the city’s famous aquarium is served up at a ceremonial dinner for high Allied officers. Prostitution is rampant. The smell of death is everywhere.Subtle, cynical, evasive, manipulative, unnerving, always astonishing, Malaparte is a supreme artist of the unreliable, both the product and the prophet of a world gone rotten to the core.

Sudan 1884: Aufgrund jahrzehntelanger ottomanischer Missregierung bricht eine brutale Rebellion aus und ein Heliger Krieg entflammt. Der charismatische neue religiöse Anführer, der 'Madhi', der 'Lang Ersehnte' hat seine Kriegsherrn um sich gesammelt und die Hauptstadt von Khatum belagert. Der britische General CG Gordon, ein Mann von eisernem Willen, will, trotzdem er in den Stadtmauern gefangen ist, den Kampf riskieren und verhindern dass die Rebellion unter Mahdis Führung auf den Rest der islamischen Welt übergreift. Vor diesem abenteurlichen und blutigen Belagerungshintergrund kämpfen drei mächtige Männer ums Überleben: Der britische Kaufmann Ryder Courtney, der erfahrene Soldat und Schwertkämpfer Captain Penrod Ballantyne des 10ten Hussarenregiments und der britische Konsul David Benbrook, der seine 3 wunderschönen Töchter beschützen muss. Wilbur Smith hat in seinem unnachahmlichen Erzählstil mit 'Triumph der Sonne' wieder ein Meisterwerk von einem Buch reich an historischem Detail hingelegt.

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursuing the swift, and often violent, events that followed liberation. Kapuscinski hitchhikes with caravans, wanders the Sahara with nomads, and lives in the poverty-stricken slums of Nigeria. He wrestles a king cobra to the death and suffers through a bout of malaria. What emerges is an extraordinary depiction of Africa--not as a group of nations or geographic locations--but as a vibrant and frequently joyous montage of peoples, cultures, and encounters. Kapuscinski's trenchant observations, wry analysis and overwhelming humanity paint a remarkable portrait of the continent and its people. His unorthodox approach and profound respect for the people he meets challenge conventional understandings of the modern problems faced by Africa at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

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