en-US Mon, 10 Mar 2025 05:15:57 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 9573165 325 Yaron Friedman 9004178929 Fayez 0 currently-reading 4.28 2009
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]]> 28407
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, in debt, and unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.

•New translation
�� Includes introduction, suggestions for further reading, filmography, chronology, explanatory notes, and glossary]]> 592 Émile Zola 0140447423 Fayez 0 currently-reading 4.17 1885
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]]> 3120143 463 Ghazi A. Algosaibi Fayez 4 4.11 1994
author: Ghazi A. Algosaibi
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]]> 62347050 ��
“This is not a potted history of the European Union—still less of Britain’s tortuous relationships with it. Instead, the book casts a panoramic eye over a far-flung continent of 850 million people, and heeds the word on the street in Pristina as much as in Paris. . . . [A] fair-minded but warm-hearted book.”—Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
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“Is Europe a real entity or a mere wishful-thinking construct? This closely observed book explores both possibilities.”�� Kirkus Reviews
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Timothy Garton Ash, Europe’s “historian of the present,�� has been “breathing Europe�� for the last half century. In Homelands he embarks on a journey in time and space around the postwar continent, drawing on his own notes from many great events, giving vivid firsthand accounts of its leading actors, revisiting the places where its history was made, and recalling its triumphs and tragedies through their imprint on the present.
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Garton Ash offers an account of events as seen from the ground—history illustrated by memoir.��He describes how Europe emerged from wartime devastation to rebuild, to triumph with the fall of the Berlin Wall, to democratize and unite. And then to falter. It is a singular history of a period of unprecedented progress along with a clear-eyed account of how so much went wrong, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the war in Ukraine. From the pen of someone who, in spite of Brexit, emphatically describes himself as an English European, this is both a tour d’horizon and a tour de force .]]> 384 Timothy Garton Ash 0300257074 Fayez 0 to-read 4.22 2023
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]]> 25206 237 Shūsaku Endō 072061080X Fayez 3 3.83 1959
author: Shūsaku Endō
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]]> 98399
Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.

Key Features]]> 316 John Bradshaw 0757303234 Fayez 0 to-read 4.09 1988
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]]> 45139216 184 Diane Zimberoff 605988363X Fayez 0 currently-reading 4.10 1989
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]]> 34066798 The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.

Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.]]> 462 Amor Towles Fayez 5 4.28 2016
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]]> 196425141 ‘A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres—much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East�� Simon Sebag Montefiore

‘A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting�� Peter Frankopan

This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle the ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860 which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus.

Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. The once mighty empire was under pressure from global economic change and European imperial expansion. Reforms in the mid-nineteenth century raised tensions across the empire, nowhere more so than in Damascus. A multifarious city linked by caravan trade to Baghdad, the Mediterranean and Mecca, the chaos of languages, customs and beliefs made Damascus a warily tolerant place. Until the reforms began to advantage the minority Christian community at the expense of the Muslim majority.

But in 1860 people who had generally lived side by side for generations became bitter enemies as news of civil war in Mount Lebanon arrived in the city. Under the threat of a French expeditionary force, the Ottomans dealt with the disaster effectively and ruthlessly - but the old, generally quite tolerant Damascene world lay in ruins. It would take a quarter of a century to restore stability and prosperity to the Syrian capital.

This is both an essential book for understanding the emergence of the modern Middle East from the destruction of the old Ottoman world, and a uniquely gripping story.]]> 400 Eugene Rogan 0241646928 Fayez 0 to-read 4.28 2024
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]]> 21535310
In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict. Bolstered by German money, arms, and military advisors, the Ottomans took on the Russian, British, and French forces, and tried to provoke Jihad against the Allies in their Muslim colonies. Unlike the static killing fields of the Western Front, the war in the Middle East was fast-moving and unpredictable, with the Turks inflicting decisive defeats on the Entente in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, and Gaza before the tide of battle turned in the Allies' favor. The great cities of Baghdad, Jerusalem, and, finally, Damascus fell to invading armies before the Ottomans agreed to an armistice in 1918.

The postwar settlement led to the partition of Ottoman lands between the victorious powers, and laid the groundwork for the ongoing conflicts that continue to plague the modern Arab world. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Great War and the making of the modern Middle East.

]]> 512 Eugene Rogan 046502307X Fayez 0 to-read 4.13 2015
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]]> 4100352
Drawing from Arab sources little known to Western readers, Rogan's The Arabs will transform our understanding of the past, present, and future of one of the world's most tumultuous regions.]]> 513 Eugene Rogan 0465071007 Fayez 0 to-read 4.33 2009
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]]> 34051011
Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters—strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis—survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.]]> 496 Min Jin Lee Fayez 0 to-read 4.35 2017
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]]> 6465430 شخصيات ورموز وذاكرة تعي أحداث، تتسطر حروفها في داخل الروح... وأنّات واستغاثات تتصاعد معلنة الانفلات من الاسار لتعلن واقعاً مؤلماً، مع، قبل، وربما بعد "سقوط الإمام". والرواية قبل كل شيء هي قراءة لما خلف السطور، أرادتها نوال السعداوي من خلال بوحها بهذه السطور.]]> 158 Nawal El Saadawi 1855165953 Fayez 0 to-read 3.22 1987
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]]> 56759 Librarian note: The same ISBN is now being used here with a new cover.

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character��, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.]]> 393 Thomas Hardy Fayez 0 to-read 3.85 1886
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]]> 59594064
Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire��adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full.

As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."]]> 384 Ernesto Che Guevara 1644210959 Fayez 0 to-read 4.36 2021
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]]> 34814047 New York Times Bestseller
National Book Award Longlist
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017

“This is one attempt to uncover how we got to this surreal political moment. It is also an attempt to predict how, under cover of shocks and crises, it could get a lot worse. And it’s a plan for how, if we keep our heads, we might just be able to flip the script and arrive at a radically better future.��
–From the Introduction

Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda—including a corporate coup in government, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy—will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy, national security, and the environment.

Acclaimed journalist, activist, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks, climate change, and “brand bullies.�� From this unique perspective, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst, most dangerous trends of the past half-century—the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough, she tells us, to merely resist, to say “no.�� Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring “yes,�� a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us—one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need.

This timely, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own, helping us understand just how we got here, and how we can, collectively, come together and heal.]]> 273 Naomi Klein 0735273995 Fayez 0 to-read 4.10 2017
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]]> 218659600 112 بثينة العيسى 9921808516 Fayez 0 to-read 3.70 2024
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]]> 2419417
Cat Country, Lao She's only work of science fiction, is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry.]]> 295 Lao She 0814200133 Fayez 0 to-read 3.70 1932
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]]> 493212 168 Edward L. Bernays 0970312598 Fayez 0 currently-reading 3.75 1928
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]]> 11990
Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.]]> 320 Albert Camus 0679733841 Fayez 0 to-read 4.16 1951
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]]> 36551060 232 احمد خلف Fayez 0 to-read 3.00
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]]> 11079931 Son yirmi yılın dünyasındaki sosyal ve maddi değişimler düşünülürse, kirpilerin birbirine daha da çok ihtiyaç duyduğunu, her kirpinin bu ikilem karşısında kendi cevabını bulması gerektiğini, tam da bu yüzden İnsan Olmak'ın bugün daha da güncel olduğunu söyleyebiliriz.]]> 184 Engin Geçtan 9753423985 Fayez 0 to-read 4.41 1983
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]]> 6537138
وفي أكثر من مناسبة دورية، كانت الأساطير تتلى أو تنشد في الاحتفالات الدينية العامة، من ذلك مثلاً، أعياد رأس السنة في بابل، حيث كانت تتلى وتمثل أسطورة التكوين البابلية. وأعياد الربيع حيث كانت تتلى وتمثل عذابات الاله تموز. بالإضافة إلى ذلك فإن الأسطورة هي أيضاً نص أدبي، وضع في أبهى حلة فنية ممكنة، واقوى صيغة مؤثرة في النفوس، وهذا ما زاد في سيطرتها وتأثيرها. وكان على الأدب والشعر، أن ينتظرا فترة طويلة، قبل أن ينفصلا عن الأسطورة.

لقد وضعت معظم الأساطير السورية والسومرية والبابلية في أجمل شكل شعري ممكن. وقام هوميروس بصياغة معظم أساطير عصره المتداولة، شعراً في الأوديسة والإلياذة. وإلى جانب الشعر والأدب، خلقت الأسطورة فنوناً أخرى كالمسرح الذي ابتدأ عهده بتمثيل الأساطير الرئيسية في الأعياد الدينية. كما دفعت فنوناً أخرى كالغناء والموسيقى وغيرها. وبعد هذا كتاب في أسطورة الشرق القديم، وهو بين يد القارئ في طبعته الثالثة عشرة.

وهدف الباحث من وراء كتابه هذا التعريف بالأسطورة في سوريا القديمة وبلاد الرافدين، معتمداً في ذلك على النصوص الكاملة لأهم الأساطير المعروفة والتي تم استحضارها من خلال أكثر من نص وأكثر من ترجمة. وقد كانت براعة الباحث في تقديم كل أسطورة في مناخها العام من الأساطير واضحة حيث أخذت كل أسطورة في هذه الدراسة مكانها في صورة الأساطير ككل، مستمدة تفسيرها من البنية الإجمالية للدراسة.

وكان منهجه في تقديم الأساطير يعتمد على جمعها من مجموعات وفق موضوعاتها لا وفق تسلسل زمني أو توزع جغرافي، لأن تفسير أسطورة ما، يبدو عصياً، إذا لم ينظر إليها من خلال منظور شامل، يجمعها مع غيرها من الأساطير التي تعالج نفس الموضوع. وهو منهج جديد في دراسة أساطير المنطقة. بالإضافة إلى ذلك قام الباحث ومن خلال أسفار الكتاب، بمقارنة شاملة مع كتاب التوراة العبرانية، فيما يتعلق بالنصوص الأسطورية الواردة فيه، وذلك لإظهار، مدى اعتماد الثقافة اليهودية على الثقافة السورية والبابلية في صياغة أهم مرجع ديني وثقافي لدى الشعب اليهودي، مظهراً علاقة الأساطير السورية والبابلية بأساطير الشعوب المجاورة كالمصريين والإغريق، متتبعاً ما أمكنه ذلك الأصول الشرقية للأساطير الإغريقية. أما لماذا اقتصر بحثه على سورية وبلاد الرافدين دون بغية ثقافات الشرق القديم، فيوضح الباحث بأن ذلك راجع لأسباب ثلاثة: الأول هو الوحدة الثقافية القائمة في هذا الجزء من المنطقة، هذه الوحدة الثقافية القائمة في هذا الجزء من المنطقة، هذه الوحدة هي التي تعطي لأي بحث يدور حولهما طابع الانسجام والتكامل. والثاني راجع لاتساع الموضوع وتشعبه، مما لا يسمح بدراسة وافية لميثولوجيا الشرق القديم في كتاب واحد ومن قبل مؤلف واحد. أما السبب الثالث فهو يرجع إلى ميل الباحث إلى آداب هذه المنطقة، وولعه بتاريخها وتراثها.

وإلى ذلك كان توجه الباحث من خلال كتابه هذا لم يكن إلى زمرة معينة من القراء، بل توجهه كان إلى زمر متعددة فالقارئ العادي يجد فيه موضوعاً جديداً على الكتابات العربية الحديثة، لأنه أول كتاب يعالج موضوع الأسطورة على هذا المستوى من الإحاطة. وسيجد القارئ المطلع كثيراً من المعلومات الجديدة والتفسيرات الجديدة. كما سيجد المهتمون بالديانات المقارنة عدداً لا بأس به من النقاط القابلة للدراسة والمناقشة، وكذلك الأمر فيما يتعلق بدارسي الآداب والديانة اليهودية. أما بالنسبة للمتخصصين، فيأمل الباحث أن تفتح النظرات والأفكار الجديدة التي طرحها في ثنايا هذا الكتاب، مجالاً لحوارات مجدية.]]> 386 فراس السواح Fayez 0 to-read 4.19 1976
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]]> 28025 195 Mircea Eliade 0691017778 Fayez 0 to-read 4.28 1949
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]]> 55140756 رحلة حافلة بالأسئلة والشكوك، يبحث خلالها البطل هشام خطَّاب عن الشيء في سواہ، ويقتفي أثرَ ذاته خارجها، علّه يقبض على لمحةٍ منها في كل ما عداها، فيما تقتنص الكاتبة من كلمات وحيوات الآخرين منمنمات تشكِّل عبرها ملامح حياته.
في «بساتين البصرة»، يَشِفّ الزمان وتضيق المسافات بين أبطال عالقين في لعبة مرايا تتصادى مع مقولة الرواية: «الزمن نهرٌ سَيَّال والمكان وَهْم. مكاننا الحقيقي موطن أرواحنا».
منصورة عز الدين؛ كاتبة وروائية مصرية، صدر لها أربع روايات وثلاث مجموعات قصصية. وصلت روايتها «وراء الفردوس» إلى القائمة القصيرة لجائزة البوكر العربية 2010، كما فازت روايتها «جبل الزمرد» بجائزة أفضل رواية عربية من معرض الشارقة الدولي للكتاب 2014. نالت مجموعتها القصصية «نحو الجنون» جائزة أفضل مجموعة قصصية مصرية من معرض القاهرة الدولي للكتاب 2014، ووصلت مجموعتها القصصية «مأوى الغياب» إلى القائمة القصيرة لجائزة الملتقى للقصة العربية عام 2018، والقائمة القصيرة لجائزة الشيخ زايد؛ فرع الآداب لعام 2020. تُرجمت أعمالها إلى أكثر من عشر لغات.]]> 164 منصورة عزالدين Fayez 3 3.42
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]]> 23497554 292 ياسين الحافظ Fayez 0 to-read 3.86 1987
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]]> 5198
Founded by the descendants of freed slaves and survivors in exodus from a hostile world, the patriarchal community of Ruby is built on righteousness, rigidly enforced moral law, and fear. But seventeen miles away, another group of exiles has gathered in a promised land of their own. And it is upon these women in flight from death and despair that nine male citizens of Ruby will lay their pain, their terror, and their murderous rage.

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation of race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present.]]> 318 Toni Morrison 0452280397 Fayez 0 to-read 3.87 1997
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]]> 37398 229 Toni Morrison 0452269652 Fayez 0 to-read 3.90 1992
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]]> 6149 Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.

Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison.]]> 325 Toni Morrison Fayez 4 3.96 1987
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The seminal work on foreign policy and the art of diplomacy.

Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations.

Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.]]> 912 Henry Kissinger 0671510991 Fayez 0 to-read 4.25 1994
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]]> 6827754 هذا ما رآه الكاتب وبحثه في مؤلفه هذا الذي يعالج فيه أمور ثلاثة هي الثالوث المحرم: الدين كموضوع دراسة علمية، الجنس كمجال للتنوير والتثقيف، والصراع الطبيعي كأداة نظرية وعملية للتحول الاجتماعي، الطبقات والفئات المتسلطة تحرم البحث في هذه المجالات، مكتفية بشتمها بالإلحاد والإباحية والشيوعية، وفي الواقع ليست الكلمات هي ما يؤرق مضجعها، بل ما يمكن أن تساعد على حدوثه ضد المصطلحات.
]]> 280 بو علي ياسين Fayez 0 to-read 3.51 1973
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]]> 7119000 مضيا غير مكترثين بالأصوات المعترضة. استقرا في صنعاء حيث بدأت رحلة أخرى من المواجهة...
رواية حب قوية تنقل القارئ إلى أجواء الصراع الذي عاشه اليمن في القرن الثامن عشر]]> 149 علي المقري 1855164159 Fayez 0 to-read 3.37 2009
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]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zafón Fayez 0 to-read 4.26 2001
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]]> 406373 Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to Mephistopheles and must serve him after death. In this first part of Goethe’s great work, the embittered thinker and Mephistopheles enter into their agreement, and soon Faust is living a rejuvenated life and winning the love of the beautiful Gretchen. But in this compelling tragedy of arrogance, unfulfilled desire, and self-delusion, Faust heads inexorably toward an infernal destruction.]]> 503 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 0385031149 Fayez 5 3.90 1808
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]]> 9777
Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family—their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts).

When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen." With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it.

The brilliantly plotted story uncoils with an agonizing sense of foreboding and inevitability. Yet nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it.

The God of Small Things takes on the Big Themes—Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules. To dislocate received rhythms and create the language she requires, a language that is at once classical and unprecedented. Arundhati Roy has given us a book that is anchored to anguish, but fueled by wit and magic.]]> 321 Arundhati Roy 0679457313 Fayez 4 3.97 1997
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]]> 271713
Robert Browning (1812-89) was largely educated in his father's vast library and spent only one term at university. In 1846 he married Elizabeth Barrett Browning, eloping to Italy until her death in 1861, when he returned to England to complete his celebrated work The Ring and the Book (1868-9). He died in Venice in 1889.]]> 704 Robert Browning 0393926001 Fayez 0 to-read 4.01 1954
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]]> 2761 The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.]]> 336 Ernest Becker Fayez 0 to-read 4.07 1973
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]]> 77270
Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai, a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as they ever were.]]> 277 Rudyard Kipling 0812504690 Fayez 0 to-read 3.94 1894
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]]> 5974527 مجموعة قصصية 137 Yusuf Idris 9771100033 Fayez 0 to-read 3.83 1971
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]]> 10765515 287 علي الشوك Fayez 0 to-read 3.71 2003
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]]> 6661805 501 نور الدين حاطوم Fayez 0 to-read 3.63 1985
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]]> 7199712
ومن عناوين هذه الفصول نذكر: لماذا كان التفكير ضرورة حيوية؟ تحسين التفكير، ماذا نقرأ؟ معرفة حدود الذات، نقد الذات، المرونة الذهنية، محاور الفضاء النظري، الموضوعية ومناهج البحث العلمي، موضوعية علماء المسلمين تجاه تقويم الأشخاص، موضوعية علماء المسلمين حيال الأفكار والأحداث، التعصب وأسباب انتشاره، عقلية البعد الواحد وأسبابها، التفسير التآمري للتاريخ، الخلل في علاقة المتقابلات، فساد تأويلات بعض النصوص، الانفتاح، الحوار...

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]]> 187569 127 Franz Kafka 0805204261 Fayez 4 4.12 1919
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]]> 58895061
One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021"

From the author of��Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives

Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from?

Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science,��The Sweet Spot��shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow.

But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists—a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty—and worse than that,��boring.����]]> 302 Paul Bloom 0062910582 Fayez 0 to-read 3.89 2021
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]]> 59360699
Zizek’i okumak ve yeniden okumak isteyenler için.]]> 59 Slavoj Žižek Fayez 4 4.13
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]]> 22447885
[ الروائية المصرية سلوى بكر ]

" هي رواية ممتعة ومشوقة، يستمتع بها من يقرأها، وسيعود لها مرة أخرى، وليس غريبا إن احتلت مقدمة الروايات المرشحة لجائزة البوكر العربية. هي رواية دسمة من حيث الأحداث والشخوص والوقائع، مكتوبة بلغة شعرية رائقة، وباستخدام تكنيك متقدم.
لدينا رواية سودانية كاملة الدسم تستحق أن تنافس بجدارة، دون مجاملة أو طبطبة، على موقع متقدم في مسيرة الرواية العربية، ولنا أن نفخر باسم روائي كبير يحفر لنفسه مكانا متقدما، وبجدارة.، اسمه حمور زيادة "

[ الكاتب السوداني فيصل محمد صالح ]

ناداني الله يا فاطمة.
أما ترين ما أصاب الدين من بلاء ؟
تغير الزمان. ملئت الأرض جوراً. التُرك، الكفار، بدّلوا دين الله. أذّلوا العباد.
ألا أستجيب لداعي الله ورسوله إذا دعاني لما يحييني ؟
سنجاهد في سبيل الله. في شان الله.
نغزو الخرطوم. نفتح مكة. نحكم مصر.
ننشر نور الله في الأرض بعد إظلامها.
وعدُ اللهِ سيدنا المهدي عليه السلام. وما كان الله مخلفاً وعده مهديه يا فاطمة.
واجبة علينا الهجرة. واجب علينا نُصرة الله.
عجلت إليك ربي لترضى. عجلت إليك ربي لترضى.
عجلت إليك .. وتركت فاطمة ورائي.]]> 460 حمور زيادة 977490284X Fayez 4 3.94 2014
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]]> 94597 Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed by and fought over by two mothers. But this chalk circle is metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected in its priorities. Brecht's statements about class are cloaked in the innocence of a fable that whispers insistently to the audience.

No translations of Brecht's work are as reliable and compelling as Eric Bentley's. These versions are widely viewed as the standard renderings of Brecht's work, ensuring that future generations of readers will come in close contact with the work of a playwright who introduced a new way of thinking about the theater.]]> 136 Bertolt Brecht 0816635285 Fayez 0 to-read 3.76 1945
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]]> 150131
Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion years. But almost everything about it, from the elements that forged stars, planets, and lifeforms, to the fundamental forces of physics, can be traced back to what happened in just the first three minutes of its life.

In this book, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg describes in wonderful detail what happened in these first three minutes. It is an exhilarating journey that begins with the Planck Epoch - the earliest period of time in the history of the universe - and goes through Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the Hubble Red Shift, and the detection of the Cosmic Microwave Background. These incredible discoveries all form the foundation for what we now understand as the "standard model" of the origin of the universe. The First Three Minutes examines not only what this model looks like, but also tells the exciting story of the bold thinkers who put it together.

Clearly and accessibly written, The First Three Minutes is a modern-day classic, an unsurpassed explanation of where it is we really come from.]]> 224 Steven Weinberg 0465024378 Fayez 0 to-read 4.11 1977
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]]> 780581 416 Guy de Maupassant 0140443150 Fayez 0 to-read 3.85 1885
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]]> 6334
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Fayez 0 to-read 3.85 2005
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]]> 204406615 في هذا الكتاب سنتنقّل في مساحة جغرافيّة وتاريخية متنوّعة تشمل بلاد الشام، ومصر، والعراق، وشبه الجزيرة العربيّة، وتركيا، وإيران، ونشاهد محاولات العرب في تحقيق حلمهم في بناء دولة عربيّة واحدة مستقلّة، وتآمر المحتلّ الغربيّ عليهم لاغتيال ذلك الحلم، وزرع الكيان الصهيونيّ في فلسطين، سيتنقّل القارئ بين أحداث تاريخيّة مختلفة ابتداء من حرب البلقان، وسقوط الدولة ال]]> 198 عمّار نذير سنان 6145050012 Fayez 0 to-read 4.57
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]]> 132436 The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.


Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.


Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions.
]]> 87 Sigmund Freud 0393001423 Fayez 0 to-read 3.85 1923
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]]> 93981 630 Sigmund Freud 1566195764 Fayez 0 to-read 3.86 1899
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]]> 160969
Highsmith has once again, as Graham Greene wrote "created a world of her own, a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger". And that sense of danger grows from the first page to the sinister and chilling conclusion.]]> 270 Patricia Highsmith 0099282976 Fayez 0 to-read 3.79 1962
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]]> 9944683 ها هم هناك ضائعون بلا ذاكرة. غارقون في مستنقع التاريخ. ولدوا في عوالم مختلفة، متناقضة. عوالم فردية. جاؤوا من بلاد قصية مطرودين، ملهوفين، مسكونين بالاحلام والمجد والظمأ.وهنا عاشوا بحنين لا حدود له لماضيهم وللرحم الذي انسلوا منه يوما، بعد ان نسوا بناء مدن نفوسهم في صحارى مقفرة، يحدها الانقراض من الجنوب، والاغتصاب من الشمال، ومن الغرب البحر، ومن الشرق الرمل. وتحت جلودهم وشل التاريخ كله.احسهم تاريخا عابرا، حفر على جدران ذاكرتي لكن ذلك التاريخ عصي على اللمس، متمرد على التكوين السوي، بينما تتقدم "منى" بهية ، موردة كالشفق، وهم يمضون باعمارهم وتواريخهم الملوثة والمدماة كأنما اخذتهم غيبوبة.]]> 335 حيدر حيدر Fayez 1 3.50 1973
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]]> 313822 Paul W. Brand 0551028149 Fayez 0 to-read 4.45 1995
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]]> 297672 Part I: "Foraarets Død" (The Death of Spring), March 1900.
Part II: "Den store Sommer" (The Great Summer), November 1990.
Part III: "Vinteren" (The Winter), October 1901.

Mikkel Thøgersen is a social outcast whose fate is strangely intertwined with that of the Danish king, Christian II.]]> 0 Johannes V. Jensen 0964339420 Fayez 5 3.28 1900
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]]> 1747452 Ph. D. J.R. Vallentyne 1412056330 Fayez 0 to-read 2.80 2006
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]]> 97381 The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.]]> 336 Alexander Pushkin 0192839543 Fayez 0 to-read 4.16 1841
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]]> 8108485 375 Amin Maalouf 9953712689 Fayez 3 4.01 1988
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rating: 3
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]]> 27537
Daniel Goleman's bestselling Emotional Intelligence revolutionized the way we think about personal excellence. Now he brings his insight into the workplace, in a book sure to change the shape of business for decades to come.

In Working with Emotional Intelligence, Goleman reveals the skills that distinguish star performers in every field, from entry-level jobs to top executive positions. He shows that the single most important factor is not IQ, advanced degrees, or technical expertise, but the quality Goleman calls emotional intelligence. Self-awareness, self-confidence, and self-control; commitment and integrity; the ability to communicate and influence, to initiate and accept change--these competencies are at a premium in today's job market. The higher up the leadership ladder you go, the more vital these skills become, often influencing who is hired or fired, passed over or promoted. As Goleman shows, we all possess the potential to improve our emotional intelligence--at any stage in our career. He provides guidelines for cultivating these capabilities--and also explains why corporate training must change if it is to be effective.]]> 400 Daniel Goleman 0553378589 Fayez 0 to-read 3.84 1998
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]]> 26324 Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to connect�� and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives.

Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses, and even strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies—down to the level of our genes—for good or ill. In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a “neural ballet�� that connects us brain to brain with those around us.

Our reactions to others, and theirs to us, have a far-reaching biological impact, sending out cascades of hormones that regulate everything from our hearts to our immune systems, making good relationships act like vitamins—and bad relationships like poisons. We can “catch�� other people’s emotions the way we catch a cold, and the consequences of isolation or relentless social stress can be life-shortening. Goleman explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions, the basis of charisma and emotional power, the complexity of sexual attraction, and how we detect lies. He describes the “dark side�� of social intelligence, from narcissism to Machiavellianism and psychopathy. He also reveals our astonishing capacity for “mindsight,�� as well as the tragedy of those, like autistic children, whose mindsight is impaired.

Is there a way to raise our children to be happy? What is the basis of a nourishing marriage? How can business leaders and teachers inspire the best in those they lead and teach? How can groups divided by prejudice and hatred come to live together in peace?

The answers to these questions may not be as elusive as we once thought. And Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction: we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy, cooperation, and altruism–provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 416 Daniel Goleman 0553803522 Fayez 0 to-read 4.00 2006
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Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our “two minds”—the rational and the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.

Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experiences, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout our adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work.��
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The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Emotional Intelligence could not come at a better time—we spend so much of our time online, more and more jobs are becoming automated and digitized, and our children are picking up new technology faster than we ever imagined. With a new introduction from the author, the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition prepares readers, now more than ever, to reach their fullest potential and stand out from the pack with the help of EI.]]> 352 Daniel Goleman 055380491X Fayez 0 to-read 4.07 1995
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]]> 17205949 320 خواجه نظام الملك Fayez 0 to-read 3.49 1091
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]]> 64533 293 Amin Maalouf 0805208984 Fayez 0 to-read 4.21 1983
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]]> 11098029 رواية تتجلى فيها أصداء الملاحم الكبرى ، والتراجيديات الإغريقية و المآسي الشكسبيرية ، ومجمل الأعمال التي انصب اهتمامها عل مصير الإنسان ، لذلك فهي تنتسب إلى سلالة الآداب السردية الرفيعة الخالدة
كثير من الروايات يتلاشى حضوره مع الذاكرة بمرور الأيام ، وتصبح استعادة أجوائه صعبة ، وربما شبه مستحيلة ،وقليل منها يدمغ الذاكرة بختمه الأبدي ، ومن ذلك القليل النادر رواية الساعة الخامسة والعشرون.]]> 496 Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu 9938833349 Fayez 0 to-read 4.45 1949
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]]> 23425
Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins.

Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.]]> 306 Alain de Botton 0375725350 Fayez 0 to-read 3.89 2004
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]]> 11729225 152 ممدوح عدوان Fayez 0 to-read 3.76 2009
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]]> 6076476 ومن هذه الشخصيات : أينشتين , ونهرو , وشاه أيران قبل ثورة الخمينى ... وغيرهم
يتضمن الكتاب , ليس مجرد سرد للقاءات . لكن تحليلات وأنعكاسات على واقعنا المصرى المعاصر]]> 429 محمد حسنين هيكل 9770909807 Fayez 0 to-read 4.13 1985
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]]> 32612322 322 زكي نجيب محمود 1527327027 Fayez 0 to-read 4.11
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]]> 5985373 82 Omar Khayyám Fayez 0 to-read 3.78 1120
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]]> 3018539
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, of course, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially mass celebration. Flags are hung out on balconies; people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home—families are left to care for the permanently dying; life-insurance policies become meaningless; and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots.

Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small "d," became human and were to fall in love?]]> 238 José Saramago 0151012741 Fayez 4 3.97 2005
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]]> 78671406

قد كنا ببساطة.. نهرب من أنفسنا.
نستخدم الطعام، الإباحيات، الجنس، العلاقات، الشراء، والانغماس مع هواتفنا كمغيرات للحالة النفسية، كمسكنات لألم عميق قد لا نعي به.
نملأ بها فجوة داخلية تجذرت فينا مبكرًا، نضمد صدمة أحدثت شرخًا في اللغة لم نستطع مداواتها إلا بالتلهي عنها بسلوكٍ قهري.
كان الإدمان صرختنا البكماء، وتوجعنا المكتوم، وأنيننا الموؤود.
وهنا خارطة طريق للتوقف عن الفرار من ذواتنا!]]> 400 عماد رشاد عثمان Fayez 0 to-read 4.25 2023
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]]> 43477470 نتوهم أن بإشراقته علي ظلمة أكواننا يتبدد التيه والحيرة ويغمرنا السلام ..

نخدع ذواتنا خديعتنا الأعظم حين نهمس لأنفسنا وقت الوجيعة .. أن يوما ما .. وجوار شخص ما .. سنشعر بالإكتمال !

ولكننا ننسي أن عطبنا ذاتي .. وأن نقصنا مثبت فينا كنظام تشغيل ..
وأن ذاك الشخص ذاته الذي رأينا فيه المخلص وسبيل التحرر ..ربما هو من سيمنحنا خيبتنا الكبري .. ويجمع فجواتنا جميعا في فجوة واحدة .. أعظم !

وربما بدلا من أن نثمر جواره .. قد نذبل .. وننزوي .. ونتلاشي .. ونذوب !


ننسى أننا نحتاج أن نحسن صحبة أنفسنا ونداوي عطب نفوسنا .. قبل أن نترقب تنزل الآخر ..

لن يكون الآخر جنتنا أبدا ما دمنا فقط نسعى لتخدير أوجاعنا عبره .. وليست تلك العلاقة في حقيقتها سوي تلاهي لاواعي عن مقابلة الذات ومواجهة حقيقة أنفسنا !

العلاقات المرضية تبدأ هنا .. حين تصير العلاقة محض هروب وفرار .. ولا شيء أكثر ..

وإن أكثر الناس اقترافا لأخطاء الاختيار هم أولئك الذين ينتظرون بشغف ويترقبون بتلهف .. فتشتبه عليهم الوجوه .. ويسقطون فراغهم العاطفي علي وجه عابر ما ، فيشاهدونه بخلاف حقيقته ..

أولئك الذين يظنون أنهم يداوون الظمأ .. عبر تتبع السراب .. !
(حتي إذا جاءه .. لم يجده شيئا) !]]> 255 عماد رشاد عثمان 9778240469 Fayez 0 to-read 3.99 2018
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]]> 50641625
وكان سجنهم (الجُرم الذي لم يرتكبوه)، ولكنهم تشربوه، فصار يقيدهم ويمنعهم من تحقيق ذواتهم.

لم يكونوا يدركون أن أبواب الزنازين مفتوحة، وأن بإمكانهم الفرار، فقد أَلَفوا هذه الزنازين فلم يتصوروا يومًا أن بالإمكان الهرب، وأن لكل منهم حياة رحبة خارج زنزانته.

كيف وقد صنع الزنزانةَ أحباؤهم؟!؛ آباء وأمهات، أو أعمام وخالات، أو معلمون ومشايخ وقساوسة ورموز مجتمعية، صنعوا الزنازين باسم الحب أو المصلحة.

حتى قرر أحدهم يومًا أن يتجرأ ويدفع الباب قليلًا لينفرج، ويدخل بصيص من نور التعافي، ثم تجاسر أكثر وخرج للممر هناك حيث زنازين الألم، ثم غامرأكثر وصاح في المحبوسين أن هناك نورًا خارج الأقفاص، وأن الحياة خارج السجن ممكنة ومكفولة وليست محرَّمة عليهم كما يظنون!

وحينها فُتحت الأبواب ببطء، وخرج الحبيسون، ليلتقوا هناك في الطريق إلى الطريق، في رحلة الهروب خارج السجن.. السجن الناعم!

وفي ذلك الممر نقشوا حكاياهم مع التعافي وكتبوا قصص تشافيهم على الجدران، وأعلنوا كيفية الهرب لكل من ألقته أقداره يومًا في سجن كهذا.
ومن تلك النقوش كان هذا الكتاب.]]> 312 عماد رشاد عثمان Fayez 0 to-read 4.14 2020
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]]> 40180098 The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

A New York Times Bestseller.]]> 502 Richard Powers 039335668X Fayez 0 to-read 4.10 2018
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]]> 23346410
Almost as if we’re eavesdropping, the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window. As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism, the world outside seeps into Ludo’s life through snippets on the radio, voices from next door, glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony, or a man fleeing his pursuers.

A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted, wild patchwork of a novel, playing on a love of storytelling and fable.]]> 245 José Eduardo Agualusa 1846558476 Fayez 0 to-read 3.87 2012
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]]> 6339662
.أحداث الرواية تقع في مدينة جدة، وتغطي فترة الأربعين سنة الماضية، وتنتهي مع اليوم الأول من العام الهجري الحالي 1430

من أجواء الرواية نقرأ: «هل تحرزنا، وحذرنا مما في الأرض، بقينا مما يلقى علينا من السماء! هذه هي الحكمة العظيمة التي تعلمتها! وبسببها لم أحاذر بقية حياتي من أي دنس يعلق بي، سعيت في كل الدروب القذرة وتقلّدت سنامها، سمة القذارة هذه هي التي أدخلتني القصر، عندها لم يعد من مناص سوى البقاء مغموراً في دناستي لأتعلم حكمة أخرى: «كل كائن يتخفى بقذارته، ويخرج منها مشيراً لقذارة الآخرين!». حكمة متواضعة اصطدم بها يومياً، ولا يريد أحد ممن يتسربل بها الاقتناع بممارسته للغباء، لذلك أجد في تذكرها ممارسة لغباء إضافي

في ليالي القصر الصاخبة تتزاحم السيارات الفارهة في المواقف الداخلية، ويتحول الخدم ببزاتهم المزركشة إلى كائنات غير مرئية، وهم يتنقلون بين المدعوين بالمشروبات، والفواكه، والحلويات ذات الأصناف، والأشكال المتنوعة، يتحركون من غير أن تمسهم عيون الحضور، الليل صاخب، والنساء أحرقن أطرافه بهز قدودهن، وغنجهن الفائر، والرؤوس ثقلت، وبقيت الكلمات المعجونة تستعر على لهيب شهوة مؤجلة»]]> 416 عبده خال Fayez 2 3.55 2009
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]]> 23419 The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he addresses lack of money, the pain of love, inadequacy, anxiety and conformity. De Botton's book led one critic to call philosophy 'the new rock and roll'.]]> 265 Alain de Botton Fayez 0 to-read 4.04 2000
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]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Fayez 0 to-read 3.98 1962
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]]> 123667 392 Ivan Goncharov 0898751985 Fayez 4 4.22 1847
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]]> 14469 433 O. Henry 1593080425 Fayez 0 to-read 4.17 1922
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]]> 143534 O. Henry's classic tale of the wisest gifts of Christmas is itself a gift to share and treasure.

In a shabby New York flat, Della sobs as she counts the few coins she has saved to buy a Christmas present for her husband, Jim. One dollar and eighty-seven cents is all the money she has in the world. A gift worthy of her devotion will require a great sacrifice: selling her long, beautiful hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the value of love.

Jim, meanwhile, has made a sacrifice for Della that is no less difficult. As they exchange gifts on Christmas Eve, the discovery of what each has done fills them with despair, until they realize that the true gifts of Christmas can be found more readily in their humble apartment than in any fine store. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the value of love.

O. Henry paints a masterly portrait of unfaltering love, a haven from the harsh world outside. The poignancy of his story is captured in Zwerger's eloquent art, wherein every glance, every gesture, tells a subtle truth.]]> 26 O. Henry 141693586X Fayez 0 to-read 4.10 1905
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]]> 88077
The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.]]> 706 Thomas Mann Fayez 0 to-read 4.12 1924
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]]> 3240691 وقد طبع منها 3 طبعات خلال سنة
يعود بهاء طاهر فى روايته الجديدة والبديعة «واحة الغروب» والتى لاقت نجاحا جماهيريا واستحسانا نقديا كبيرا، إلى نهايات القرن التاسع عشر، وبداية الاحتلال البريطانى لمصر.
حيث يُرسل ضابط البوليس المصرى محمود عبدالظاهر، والذى كان يعيش حياة لاهية بين الحانات وبنات الليل، إلى واحة سيوة لشك السلطات فى تعاطفه مع الأفكار الثورية لجمال الدين الأفغانى وأحمد عرابى.
فيصطحب زوجته الأيرلندية «كاثرين» الشغوفة بالآثار، والتى تبحث عن مقبرة الإسكندر الأكبر، لينغمسا فى عالم جديد شديد الثراء والخصوصية يجبرهما وأهل الواحة على مواجهة أنفسهم فى زمن اختلطت فيه الانتهازية والخيانة والرغبة بالحب والبطولة.
تعكس أحداث الرواية أيضا مزجا إبداعيا بين الماضى والحاضر وال.... والموضوعى والتاريخ والواقع يعبر عن هموم الوطن كما يقدم تجربة العلاقة بين الشرق والغرب على المستويين الإنسانى والحضارى بما فيها من صراع وتوافق]]> 325 بهاء طاهر Fayez 4 3.83 2006
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]]> 660518 Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestation. (4) It would be better if, as a result of there being no new people, humanity became extinct. These views may sound unbelievable--but anyone who reads Benatar will be obliged to take them seriously.]]> 237 David Benatar 0199296421 Fayez 3 3.91 2006
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]]> 18936424 41 Gustave Flaubert Fayez 0 to-read 3.70 1877
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]]> 11337 The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change—in painful, devastating ways.

With its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Toni Morrison's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.]]> 216 Toni Morrison Fayez 4 4.13 1970
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Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War II, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell like Lazarus from the tomb, seeing infinity in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour. Transfigured by his ordeal, he begins to realize what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. He determines to find the exact point at which the accumulated weight of those choices has deprived him of free will.
]]> 264 William Golding Fayez 0 to-read 3.73 1959
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]]> 40102 The Tipping Point a classic, Blink changes the way you'll understand every decision you make. Never again will you think about thinking the same way.

Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? How do our brains really work - in the office, in the classroom, in the kitchen, and in the bedroom? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others?

In Blink we meet the psychologist who has learned to predict whether a marriage will last, based on a few minutes of observing a couple; the tennis coach who knows when a player will double-fault before the racket even makes contact with the ball; the antiquities experts who recognize a fake at a glance. Here, too, are great failures of "blink": the election of Warren Harding; "New Coke"; and the shooting of Amadou Diallo by police. Blink reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" - filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.]]> 296 Malcolm Gladwell 0316010669 Fayez 0 to-read 3.97 2005
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]]> 3243517
مريد البرغوثي فاز بجائزة عبوره ذلك الجسر الخشبي الصغير وكأنه بتجاوزه تمكن من المثول أمام أيامه، وجعل أيامه تمثل أمامه، يلمس تفاصيل منها بلا سبب مهملاً منها تفاصيل أخرى بلا سبب، مثرثراً لنفسه عمراً كاملاً، في يوم عودته ومن حوله يحسبون أنه في صمت عبر الجسر المحرم عليه بعد ثلاثين عاماً، وفجأة انحنى ليلملم شتاته، كما يلمّ جهتي معطفه إلى بعضها في يوم من الصقيع والتلهف. أو كما يلملم تلميذ أوراقه التي بعثرها هواء الحقل وهو عائد من بعيد.

وعلى مخدعه في تلك الليلة، ليلة العودة-لملم النهارات والليالي ذات الضحك، ذات الغضب، ذات الدموع، ذات العبث، وذات الشواهد الرخامية التي لا يكفيه عمر واحد لزيارتها جميعاً، من أجل تقديم الصمت والاحترام، وفي غمرة كل ذلك الروح شاحبة، والنفس ذابلة، وسؤال يقفز، ما الذي يسلب الروح ألوانها والنفس أنغامها؟!! وما الذي، غير قصف الغزاة أصاب الجسر؟. لملم مريد البرغوثي كل ذلك ليحكي في كتابه هذا رحلة عذاب فلسطين من خلال أسلوب قصصي شاعري رائع، جسد صدقه الإنساني المعذب والجميل.]]> 263 Mourid Barghouti Fayez 0 to-read 4.19 1997
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]]> 5996777 298 Naguib Mahfouz 9770930776 Fayez 0 to-read 4.24 1979
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]]> 22811885 341 George Eliot 1596746963 Fayez 0 to-read 3.91 1860
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]]> 5890 Librarian note: Alternate covers can be found here and here.

'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop... There, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth, stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white'

The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter becomes embroiled in the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons, and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.

Matthew Sweet's introduction explores the phenomenon of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, and discusses Wilkie Collins's biographical and societal influences. Included in this edition are appendices on theatrical adaptations of the novel and its serialisation history.]]> 672 Wilkie Collins Fayez 0 to-read 4.00 1859
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]]> 31311605 لرواية مقتل بائع الكتب ..
بقلم الاستاذ حميد المختار ..

لعب الروائي سعد محمد رحيم في روايته الجديدة ( مقتل بائع الكتب) على أكثر من مدونة حيث استحضر المذكرات والرسائل والتأملات والمواضيع الأخرى التي لها مساس مباشر بحياة بطل الرواية ( محمود المرزوق) هذه الشخصية المركبة التي تحمل في طياتها ملفات كثيرة وحياة إشكالية ملتبسة فضلاً عن علاقاته الكثيرة التي أضفت على أجواء الرواية لوناً عالمياً إضافة الى روحها المحلية الخالصة (محمود المرزوق) الذي يعود بالخطأ إلى العراق وتتوالى سلسلة الأخطاء في حياته، حتى موته لم يكن هو المقصود في عملية الاغتيال إنما شخص آخر. لكن حادث اغتياله هو الذي فجر كل هذا التاريخ السري ومن خلالها عاد بنا الروائي إلى البدايات، كما لو انه عاد ليشكل مشهد بدايات الخليقة أو بدايات نشوء الأوطان والممالك. أحسست وأنا أقرأ الرواية أنني أعرف المرزوق أو انني ربما التقيت به في حياتي الثقافية مع مثقفي العراق فهو رسام وعاشق للموسيقى والأدب واللغات والكتب والجمال والعلاقات الإنسانية الحميمة. أنا شخصيا وجدت فيه ذاتي مجسدة كل معاني الحياة المتشابكة التي يعيشها المثقف والمبدع العراقي، لذلك اختصر هذا البطل تاريخا حافلا بالوعي والنضال سواء داخل العراق أو خارجه مؤسسة حالة إنسانية رأيناها في حيواتنا الكثيرة التي غامرنا بولوج تجاربها القاسية على اختلاف اتجاهاتنا وأفكارنا، لذلك وان كان البطل يساريا لكنني كما قلت رأيت فيه نفسي ومن هنا تأتي قدرة الروائي المتمكن حين يرسم ملامح شخصيته الرئيسة بحيث انها تندغم مع الواقع وتتلاشى فيه ويتمثل في هذا الواقع بكل عقده وثورات غضبه وانتفاضاته (مقتل بائع الكتب) واحدة من الروايات التي تؤسس لما أسميه بتاريخ الكتب من خلال توظيف المكتبة والشخصيات كما في رواية (فهرس) لسنان انطون وكذلك رواية خضير فليح الزيدي (فندق كوستيان) سواء شارع المتنبي أو سرد لحياة مكتبة وتاريخ الكتبيين الذين بدؤوا يؤسسون لدور نشر ومؤسسات ثقافية ذات شأن واضح. اذن فرواية (مقتل بائع الكتب) تحمل في طياتها ملمحا تأسيسيا يدخل تحت مسمى رواية ما بعد الدكتاتورية. هذا المصطلح الذي بات متداولا في الأوساط الثقافية والسردية لما له من أهمية واضحة في إضافة خطوة جديدة وواثقة وقادرة على فعل التأسيس والتجاوز. والروائي سعد محمد رحيم واحد من الروائيين العراقيين المقتدرين الذين حققوا عبر أكثر من خطوة روائية شكلا لتجربة ناضجة ومقدرة سردية مهمة أضافت للسردية العراقية بعدا جماليا واضحا.]]> 216 سعد محمد رحيم Fayez 3 3.08 2016
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Writing with the style and flair that has made him an award-winning war correspondent, Durschmied takes us through the major battles of history, from the battlefields of ancient Greece to the Gulf War. In a series of gripping narratives, he vividly recreates the crucial events in all their mayhem and confusion while pointing out the decisive moments that changed the course of history. We see Agincourt, where rain combined with French arrogance to give Henry V the day; the Crimea, where a badly worded order led to the disastrous charge of the Light Brigade; and colonial Africa, where an attack by African killer bees, described by the London Times as Germany’s secret weapon, repulsed an Allied invasion. And in a chilling epilogue, we are given a disturbing glimpse of the secret attempt by Libya to buy atomic weapons from China for use against Israel.

Drawing from a variety of sources, including personal accounts such as soldiers�� diaries and letters home, The Hinge Factor is an instructive, fascinating look at how the unpredictable, the absurd, and the bizarre have shaped the face of history in war.]]> 416 Erik Durschmied 1611453216 Fayez 0 to-read 3.41 1999
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]]> 47667
But when the ballots are counted, more than 70 percent are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. But are the authorities acting too precipitously? Or even blindly? The word evokes terrible memories of the plague of blindness that hit the city four years before, and of the one woman who kept her sight. Could she be behind the blank ballots? A police superintendent is put on the case.

What begins as a satire on governments and the sometimes dubious efficacy of the democratic system turns into something far more sinister. A singular novel from the author of Blindness.]]> 307 José Saramago Fayez 4 3.78 2004
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]]> 26187137 126 Osamu Dazai Fayez 0 to-read 3.77 1944
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]]> 194746 No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title).

Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun, has said of the author's work: "His world �� suggests Chekhov or possibly postwar France, �� but there is a Japanese sensibility in the choice and presentation of the material. A Dazai novel is at once immediately intelligible in Western terms and quite unlike any Western book." His writing is in some ways reminiscent of Rimbaud, while he himself has often been called a forerunner of Yukio Mishima.

Cover painting by Noe Nojechowiz, from the collection of John and Barbara Duncan; design by Gertrude Huston]]> 176 Osamu Dazai Fayez 0 to-read 3.99 1948
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