El Juramento/the Oath
5 best books like El Juramento/the Oath (Khassan Baiev): Sostiene Pereira, The War of the End of the World, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, La mossa del cavallo
| Author | Antonio Tabucchi |
| ISBN | 8433966324 |
Lisboa, 1938. En una Europa recorrida por el fantasma de los totalitarismos, Pereira, un periodista dedicado durante toda su vida a la sección de sucesos, recibe el encargo de dirigir la página cultural de un mediocre periódico. Pereira tiene un sentido un tanto fúnebre de la cultura y prefiere...
The War of the End of the World
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| ISBN | 0571139612 |
Practical Eschatology
At precisely the time that Fyodor Dostoevsky was writing of the Grand Inquisitor and his confrontation with a Jesus returned to the world (1879-80), the events he was fictionalising were playing themselves out in the scrublands of the Brazilian State of Bahia. In fact,...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
| Author | Kate Andersen Brower |
| ISBN | 0062305190 |
A remarkable history with elements of both In the President’s Secret Service and The Butler, The Residence offers an intimate account of the service staff of the White House, from the Kennedys to the Obamas.
America’s First Families are unknowable in many ways. No one has insight into...
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0743422007 |
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference...
| Author | Andrea Camilleri |
| ISBN | 8817251895 |
In fondo al volume c'è una Nota che spiega come le vicende narrate in questo romanzo siano state suggerite da un fatto di cronaca realmente accaduto all'epoca in cui esso si svolge. Chiaramente, ne viene citata la fonte. Sempre corretto e preciso, il nostro grande Maestro!
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