Category: Political Fiction

Prenant l. a. suite des Hooligans (publié à L’Herne en 1987), Retour du paradis ouvre une série de romans que Mircea Eliade a consacré sa génération. Les personnalités multiples et souvent contradictoires de l’auteur trouvent ici leur reflet dans presque tous les personnages. Ses jeunes héros sont souvent tiraillés entre l’action et le leurre, mettant toujours en query leur propre vie, avec une ironie grave, alternant une solitude complète avec des réunions bachiques. Leur vie est faite d’amours passionnés et d’idéaux turbulents dans un monde instable. Peu de choses se produisent pour Dav, Paul ou Eléazar, mais ils sirotent leurs expériences avec délectation, regardant l. a. vie avec les yeux grands ouverts, dans une recherche fiévreuse d’eux-mêmes et des autres...

within the mid-17th century Hans, a tender journeyman printer has simply arrived from Amsterdam to open a store of his personal in Trier, Rhineland Germany, the town of his beginning, an old roman urban ruled by means of the pope and Louis XIV of France. He meets a Jewish companion who has been eager for freedom and has been interested in a would-be Jewish messiah. Hans buys gear in different towns of Europe, and the companions prosper, yet Trier is beset by way of Louis' wars many times. spiritual freedm and self-government are one of the resounding problems with the time. you could examine the switch it ends up in. Following the homicide of 1 of the Jewish sons through a French soldier, they to migrate to manhattan urban in 1700 and start back in a brand new urban that comprises either freedom and slavery.

We Defy! Is the tale of a band of Texans who develop into annoyed with the lack of liberty of their lives and ensure that the location isn't any longer tolerable. utilizing the previous as a consultant, they determine their very own neighborhood and continue to construct a society in line with the foundations which initially ruled the USA and Texas. They choose to forget about unconstitutional edicts of the nationwide executive and dwell because the founders of the us meant at no cost humans to reside. The Texans are both prepared to exploit the cleaning soap field, poll field, and cartridge field because the scenario dictates.

As the neighborhood grows, the citizens are faced with problems with neighborhood executive and finally they arrive to the eye of federal gurus. these experts are made up our minds to implement the united states Code of Federal rules and the Texans bid defiance.

We Defy! is the story of that go back to a lifestyle of person liberty and the ensuing clash with governmental experts. the result of these activities influence the citizens, Texas and the United States.

After failing to alter U.S. worldwide safety coverage by means of clandestinely supplying mystery nuclear expertise to Japan, former Secretary of protection Sewall Travers has slightly shunned a Congressional inquiry. He has resettled in ny and verified himself as a hedge fund supervisor. The stain of the so-called Stealth affair has all started to vanish in so much thoughts, yet Travers keeps to believe the disgrace and shame of the development. So whilst he's without warning known as by means of the director of a small non-profit association and invited to behave as a personal negotiator to lessen the tensions among China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands within the East China Sea, he reacts certainly within the desire and expectation luck might repair his acceptance and stable name.
Travers flies to Tokyo lower than the canopy of an investor looking possibilities in potential undersea petroleum deposits close to the islands. In Tokyo, his curiosity in jap ceramics leads him to go to the Matahachi gallery, the place he meets the landlord, Mieko Matahachi. They make a right away romantic connection, and their dating develops speedily. in the meantime, he contacts the reputable in Japan’s Ministry of overseas Affairs who's chargeable for the Senkaku/Diaoyu factor, Chiaki Matsumura. They meet to debate his purpose to open a discussion and start negotiations with the chinese language specialists. He additionally meets Kazuko Sumida, an investigative reporter who's attracted to assisting to discover a solution of the dispute. Kazuko does a little analysis on Ms. Matsumura’s heritage, and unearths that she was once born to a lady within the kin Travers stayed with in the course of a summer season internship in Japan in the course of his highschool years. Given the identify of the mummy and dates of his remain, Travers starts to appreciate there's a probability that Chiaki Matsumura should be his daughter.
The tale strikes directly to Beijing, the place Travers and Matsumura meet with the chinese language, after which to Taiwan the place they set up with the commander of an army air unit to be helicoptered to the positioning of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The plot thickens!

Sarah Lamb is a hypersensitive stay-at-home mother who lives an international except Noah Greenblatt, an embittered Washington lobbyist with an estranged daughter and a self-destructive streak. yet after Sarah’s son resolves to go away domestic and struggle for his kingdom, an opportunity assembly shines a gentle on them either.

Together, they are going to embark on an unforgettable trip during the barren region of yankee politics, person who will problem them to be anything they were not sooner than. no matter what occurs alongside the best way, they be aware of the realm will swap, simply because they be aware of they are going to.

Alone In Us is their story as they inform it, packed with wish, immediacy, and humor, and the result's a narrative for a brand new iteration of socially wakeful americans when it comes to the previous – a wild and wide-eyed yarn for the electronic age George Bailey in all of us.

Tullio Grimaldi, nato a Napoli nel 1933, vive a Roma. Laureato in Giurisprudenza è stato docente universitario, quindi magistrato a Napoli prima e a Roma, presso los angeles Corte di Cassazione, poi. E’ stato anche deputato al parlamento dal 1994 al 20901. E’ autore di vari saggi e pubblicazioni di carattere giuridico. Protagonista di “Compagno giudice” è un magistrato che entra in contatto con los angeles realtà dei movimenti studenteschi e della classe operaia misurandosi con le nuove istanze sociali accompagnate anche da lotte operaie e dai primi bagliori del terrorismo. Tutto questo a long wayà sorgere in lui molti dubbi sulla vita sino advert ora condotta e sull’inadeguatezza della tradizionale formazione giuridica a rispondere alle istanze di cambiamento che arrivano dalla società. Il rapporto con una giovane donna gli sarà di ispirazione fino all’emblematico finale.
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dying through 1000 Cuts is a political page-turner mired within the poisonous cesspool of latest Jersey nation politics.
Ben Campbell, a tender political operative, attracts a plum gig as crusade supervisor to incumbent senator Dino Bruni, consummate flesh presser and a shoo-in for reelection. Campbell figures he’ll mobile this one in, marry blue-blood debutant Kat Van Horn, and write his personal price ticket. input Campbell’s early life ally Sydney Langston, clean off a breakup with Cody Briggs of NFL Superbowl status. She has a few dust at the senator she’s trying to be certain. The state of the art constitution college Senator Bruni equipped as a monument to himself is beginning to draw suspicion, yet Campbell doesn’t are looking to listen any of it. There’s just too a lot at stake. but if a Bruni underling commits a surprising act of violence, Ben can’t forget about the proof any further. Bruni indications he'll cease at not anything to take care of his cover-up while he calls in a bevy of unhinged white supremacists to snuff out somebody who stands in his manner. while the bloody climax arrives, Campbell and Langston will face down demise of their quest to discover the reality and take down Bruni.

the 1st installment of a destiny trilogy, the second one paintings referred to as "Delusions", this provocative tale tells of a seven-year-old lady with withered legs and magical powers. She seems to be all over the world amidst events of strife and war, diffusing the violence and delivering possible choices to maneuver humankind clear of damaging trends. She encounters and interacts with numerous modern characters together with George W. Bush, invoice Gates and the Dalai Lama. It fast-moving and enjoyable and conjures up contemplation at the country of the human race.

Susan George, the major foreign correspondent for a tremendous US channel tv community makes a decision to make a covert stopover at to Northern Iraq to enquire a file which may become an important robbery of oil assets within the nonetheless unsettled border among Kurdistan and Arab ruled Iraq. She reveals herself in a midst of a beleaguered Assyrian Christian neighborhood to which she is said via ancestry yet whose dating she has rejected all through her public existence. The group chief and his head of safety attempt to dissuade her from carrying on with her research during this lawless, murderous a part of Iraq. After her first interview with a attorney representing the firms illegally wildcatting on houses whose possession she had cause to suspect they bought via homicide via a infamous former colonel in Saddam’s Republican defend. She is ambushed and abducted through the terrorist gang led by way of the ruthless officer who violently rapes and abuses her in order to humiliate and demean her. Her kidnapping results in an try to rescue her.

Illuminating the intimate, human faces of conflict, this exact sequence of brief tales by means of award-winning writer Katey Schultz questions the stereotypes of contemporary warfare through bearing witness to the shared struggles of all who're touched via it. a variety of characters-returning U.S. soldier and pragmatic jihadist, Afghan mom and listless American sister, brave amputee and a ghost that can't permit go-appear in Flashes of conflict, which captures own moments of worry, introspection, confusion, and valor in a single assortment spanning international locations and views. Written in transparent, available language with startling metaphors, this unforgettable trip leaves apart judgment, bringing us towards a broader knowing of battle by way of concentrating on participants, their motivations, and their very unlikely judgements. Flashes of struggle weaves intimate portrayals of lives tormented by the conflict on Terror right into a particular tapestry of emotional resonance. It builds bridges, tears them down, and sends out a common plea for reconnection.