Readers International - Böcker

Rocket Reader 1 was created for all those struggling students, parents and even teachers who need help with reading. Reading is a complex skill that contains many rules. My book is hear to help all grade levels of students understand those complex...

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Portrays the experiences of Nicaraguan musicians, soldiers, prostitutes, politicians, beauty queens, and other characters during the Somoza regime.

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Seven stories offer a satiric look at life in modern Czechoslovakia, including the black market, love, thievery, religion, and the need for secrecy.

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On 11 September 1973 General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup against the elected government of Salvador Allende, bombing La Moneda, the presidential seat in Chile's capital Santiago where the President died resisting the attack.The National F...

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Nobel Prize Laureate Winner Kenzaburo Oe selects and introduces nine compelling stories by japanese writers on the A-bomb and its aftermath in Japanese society from 1945 to today.

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Gathered at a wake for Don Severino Gil in 1981, the year martial law was lifted in the Philippines, his curious relatives wonder why the old philanderer's coffin is sealed.

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Irene, a middle-aged actress, and Dolores, a young poet, both victims of South American dictatorships, courageously defy the state.

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Conflict between rival factions in a small Argentinean village results in violence.

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Ndebele evokes South African township life with humor and subtlety in this novel.

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This daughter of East Germany's elite exploded into print with her first angry novel mixing a cry against industrial pollution with the longing and alienation of women in a workers' state -- now a classic feminist text finding a new readership in ...

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A modern classic of Brazilian literature recounting the tragedies of rural life in Brazil's arid back-lands.

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After years of living in the U.S., Johnny Manalo returns to the Philippines after the assassination of Acquino, and discovers the country has become immersed in corruption.

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Nicaragua's vice-president tells the stories of a bodybuilder, a pretentious country club, a young Santa Claus, political prisoners, and a chance for a perfect game.

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Relates a tale of contemporary Haiti through the eyes of the poorest people of the Americas--the residents of the shantytowns crowding around Port-au-Prince.

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Satirizes African politics through the story of the adventures of the dictator Marshal Hannibal-Ideloy Bwakamabe Na Sakkade.

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These witty and ironical short essays in the classic Czech genre known as feuilletons, or chronicles, show Ludvik Vaculik's philosophy, honesty and humor. His work, in George Theiner's stylish translation, will evoke a powerful response today...

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Gathers humorous parodies of Iranian pronouncements, sermons, interviews, and war strategies.

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Seven stories depict the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens during recent political and social upheavals in their homeland.

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Monika Maron, the great German writer still today at the forefront of her creative generation, saw her country East Germany disappear in civil unrest, departures and finally the fall of the Berlin Wall. Maron in this novel looks inside Rosalind Po...

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Follows the adventures of "Mestre" Tamoda, an archetypal bush lawyer and mock rhetorician from Angola.

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Sex and power are dominant themes in this innovative novel by a major femisnist writer, an exile from Uruguay now living in Spain.

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RENEWAL TIME marked the odyssey and return of Es'kia Mphahlele, a remarkable South African man of letters, at a remarkable moment in South African history. Exiled in the 1950s, he wrote the classic account of a black man's coming of age in South A...

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The long life and career of Hwang Sun-won (1915-2000) spanned the whole trajectory of modern Korean history - Japanese domination, WWII, ideological strife, the Korean War and harsh division of the country, industrialization, military dictatorship...

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In the face of Europe's rising nationalism and intolerance, this timely anthology by Czech writers addresses a key issue for today. The courage of Czech writers is legendary. During the Cold War they kept their nation's conscience alive ...

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His magisterial prose and poetry have won Abdellatif Laâbi successively France's Prix Goncourt and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie Française. Rue du Retour brings to the English reader the full drama and intensity of the poet's...

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The hero of Baize-Covered Table undergoes a searching bureaucratic investigation, that staple of the old Soviet and even older Russian police state. With the naked intensity of personal nightmare, the hero visits and returns to the stark scene of ...

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Calunga, an idealistic Brazilian journalist, leaves his small town home to make his fortune in the big city, only to be defeated by the forces of modern society.

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An unsuccessful boxer and a tango singer become friends and attempt to start a local festival in the little Argentinian town of Colonia Vela.

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The first novel by a popular Romanian writer to be translated into English, this tale of memory and experience features Paul and his family, living through World War II in a remote Moldavian village soon to be swallowed up by Stalin's Russia.

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The Jewish quarter of Budapest provides the setting for these stories by Hungarian twin brothers, who have been refugees from their homeland since the Hungarian uprisings of 1956. The stories describe those who lived in the Eighth District, and th...

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