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      • Sri Senbaga Pathippakam

        Sri Senbaga Pathippakam is one of the best publishers in Tamil language. We have published more than 1000 titles including ancient Sangam Tamil literature, research books in Tamil literature and language, mythological books, historical fiction and non-fiction, short stories, cooking books, etc. We also specialize in books for children, bilingual and trilingual dictionaries for the reference of students and general public. We publish Sahitya Academy & Tamilnadu government award winning books. One of our renowned books, 'Thirukkural', a scripture common to every walk of human life irrespective of gender, race or community is a must read for everyone on this planet. It is published in various sizes and design. 'Oviyakkural (Thirukkural with paintings)' portrays Tamil tradition and culture through paintings. Our religious publication about Vainavam and Saivam is popular among scholars. 'Kambar Kavi Inbam' portrays the beauty of poetry as described in Kambar's Ramayanam in Tamil language.

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      • Literary Fiction

        Sukab's World

        by Seno Gumira Ajidarma

        There’s a woman who chooses violence.There’s a discovery of a field of massacres.There’s a story about the future of rape.There’s a person being tortured, who turns out to be wrongly targeted.There are many people, can’t decide on a leader to elect.There’s a corrupt person, his nose grows.There’s a dead body missing, because of the flood.There’s a sack found, contains the dead body of a thug.There’s a fruit of hereditary sin, hugely sold out.There’s a conversation between shoes, musing about faithfulness.There’s an unemployed husband, whose hobby is taking afternoon naps.There’s a flower shop courier, flirting with a maid.They live in Sukab’s World, which is our world too.But who is Sukab? *** Originally published in 2004, the short stories in this book are Seno’s observation and criticism about things that occur in Indonesian society, told using the medium of the character of Sukab. Sukab takes various forms throughout the stories. He can be a man who steals someone else’s wife, an unfaithful husband, someone reporting a case, or even a fruit seller. He can be the main character in one story and a cameo in others.

      • Fiction

        A PIECE OF TWIGLIGHT FOR MY LOVER

        by Seno Gumira Ajidarma

        Sukab sends a piece of twilight in an envelope to Alina, his lover. He sends the piece of twilight to his girlfriend because he does not want to add to the countless words in the history of human culture. Sukab thinks that words are useless and always in vain. After all, who is still willing to listen? In this world everyone is busy talking, nobody wants to  listen to other people's words. Words are overflowing and no longer needed. Every word can be replaced with meaning. Every meaning can be changed.Unfortunately, his girlfriend receives the piece of twilight only ten years later.

      • Fiction

        A Long Evening in Central Park

        by Bondan Winarno

        “How dangerous autumn is. When the flowers bloom, the human heart blossoms too and it becomes a lush land where love grows.” This book is the complete manuscript of Bondan Winarno’s career as a short story author. There are 25 short stories compiled here, written from 1980 to 2004. All of which have been published in various mass media and most of them have won writing contests. Love, sadness, pain and loneliness are presented in these stories, written in simple yet beautiful language. All of them are the portraits of the romance of human life from around the world in diverse settings. History may change, but the splatters of beauty will eternally cross through generations. These short stories are an interlude of musings for readers to break free from the worldly noise for a while.

      • August 2020

        SIRI'

        by Asmayani Kusrini

        Siri’ is defined as sociocultural values used as a tool to maintain integrity and dignity as an individual as well as a member of the Bugis community. It is also a state of humiliation or embarrassment within the Bugis and Makassar community.   Siri' starts from the sudden death of Bahjan Komarudin, a leading businessman and politician. His death reveals a love story as well as a complex polygamous life between Bahjan and Lie Mei Yuan, a girl of Chinese descent and Sulistiawati, a young girl who is trapped in tradition.   What started as a love story, then becomes the starting point of surprising encounters of people who are connected by their collective memories. A Journalist and a stylist who were caught up in the conflict in Papua, an activists who disappeared, an artist who wandered to the end of Greece, the doctor who tried to commit suicide in Denmark, and everyone around them, completed each other like pieces of mosaic and formed a story in Siri'.   Mei Yuan - Bahjan - Sulis changed and grew older along with a turbulent swift in Indonesian political landscape. In the midst of this change, the three generations in this novel struggled to deal with the new norms which challenged their identity. But the question remains: to what extent people want to cross the barrier of a long standing tradition to fulfil one's dream?

      • April 2020

        Reificación mediática

        by German Duarte

        En los años 60 del siglo pasado, las posiciones existencialistas y fenomenológicas plantearon un problema importante y controvertido, que produjo divisiones en el seno del mismísimo campo del pensamiento marxista. ¿Está el efecto de reificación sujeto inextricablemente al modo de producción capitalista? ¿Está por ello destinado a desaparecer con la liberación de la esfera social del dominio del capital, o bien tenemos que pensar que el carácter de reificación es más profundo que el mismo capitalismo y que está arraigado en la dimensión antropológica fundacional, anterior a la relación capitalista social ?.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2019

        Nosotros, Colombia… Comunicación, paz y (pos)conflicto

        by Sergio Roncallo-Dow, Juan David Cárdenas Ruiz, Juan Carlos Gómez Giraldo

        Peace seems to have been elusive in Colombian history. The ups and downs in the negotiation processes, the unfulfilled promises, and the political polarization have made Colombia a nation in a state of continuous crisis and that, in spite of itself - to take up the old Bushnell phrase - has managed to stay afloat and, above all, do not lose hope for a stable and lasting peace.   There have been numerous attempts to build it and they seem to have been unsuccessful, especially because a good part of the collective representation that we have of them has been built from the media apparatus that, in the case of our country, has been at the service of power and that it has resulted in skepticism that, especially since the 1990s, has tended to transform into a strong polarization. With this book, we want not only to think about peace and (post) conflict from communication but to remind (us), once again, that we can still be we.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        Gaoh

        En tierras de Urantia

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        Are you ready to read the story of the second coming of Christ in full s. XXI? Do you want to know first-hand who he was, what he did and with whom? Do you know that this time she was a woman and that her mothers were lesbians?Get ready to explode your neurons with this groundbreaking, entertaining, and surprising novel, set in real settings in Spain (Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona) and Europe.Action, adventure, travel, sex, technology, chases, magical scenarios, extraterrestrial beings ...You have before you a new modern and daring thriller that will make you reflect on reality.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2018

        Aporías de la democracia

        by Ricardo Espinoza Lolas y Jordi Riba (coords.)

        In this book, we ask ourselves about something that occurs in a generalized way today in the bosom of Western democracies, perhaps already obsolete models of the old representative and liberal democracy. Democracies where, on one hand, people vote, seems, in an "i-reflexive" way; to people, political parties or social movements that express an apparently undemocratic way of life; that is, a way of life that refuses to be mixed with the Other; a way of life that detests the migrant in all its forms; that refuses an open, supportive and cooperative economy; that ultimately pursues a more “firm hand” against anything that threatens identity values. And on the other hand, it is claimed that the representative character has to take steps forward, also thanks to technologies, to move towards a democracy where the co-design of this by citizens is fundamental and absolutely necessary to save what is still there. It remains democratic in this current simulation that is the democracy of neoliberal Capitalism.  * * * En el libro Aporías de la democracia se pregunta sobre algo de aquello que de forma generalizada ocurre hoy en el seno de las democracias occidentales, modelos acaso ya obsoletos de la vieja democracia representativa y liberal. Democracias donde por una lado se vota, parece, de forma “i-reflexiva”; a personas, partidos políticos o movimientos sociales que expresan un modo de vida aparentemente poco democrática; esto es, un modo de vida que rechaza estar mezclado con el Otro; un modo de vida que detesta al migrante en todas sus formas; que rehúsa una economía abierta, solidaria y cooperativa, que persigue, en definitiva, más “mano dura” contra todo lo que atente contra los valores identitarios. Y por otro lado, se reivindica que el carácter representativo tiene que dar pasos adelante, también gracias a las tecnologías, avanzar hacia una democracia en donde el co-diseño de ésta por parte de los ciudadanos sea fundamental y absolutamente necesario para salvar lo que aún queda de democrático en este simulacro actual que es la democracia del Capitalismo neoliberal.

      • Fiction
        July 2020

        El sonido de un tren en la noche

        by Laura Riñón Sirera

        Clementina had the story of her life written before she was even born and it seemed happy, fortunate and privileged. Born into a family of the Madrid nobility she was always a happy child. But her grandmother, the spiteful, had already warned those around her, when she heard them talk about how the little girl didn’t cry, that “if she wasn’t crying now, she would do so in the future”. She had just turned sixteen when everything her family had planned for her was frustrated by the quirks of fate and her only way out was to escape. The first chapter of her new life starts here, already changed into a new person. A story of acceptance of her new self, of reconciliation with a solitude that will accompany her around the maps where she chooses to get lost, Madrid, Valencia and the United States. This is then story of a never-ending journey of a woman that could’ve had it all and was forced to forget her past to become a different person, one she had to embrace. Life teaches her a valuable lesson: in the escape the coward shows his courage. Clementina tenía los renglones de su historia escritos antes de nacer, y su vida se auguraba feliz, afortunada y privilegiada. Nacida en el seno de una familia de la nobleza madrileña, fue una niña alegre desde su nacimiento. Pero su abuela, la Rencorosa, ya lo advirtió a su entorno cuando oía comentarios sobre lo poco que lloraba la pequeña, «lo que no llore ahora, lo llorará cuando sea mayor», gruñía entre dientes.Apenas había cumplido los dieciséis años, cuando la vida que su entorno había planeado para ella se vio truncada por los caprichos del destino, y su única salvación fue la huida. Comienza entonces a escribir el primer capítulo de su segunda vida, ya convertida en otra persona. Una historia de búsqueda y de aceptación de su nueva identidad y de reconciliación con la soledad junto a la que se desplazará por los mapas en los que elige perderse, Madrid, Valencia y Estados Unidos.Esta es la historia del viaje interminable de una mujer que pudo tenerlo todo y que se vio obligada a olvidar su pasado para convertirse en otra persona, con la que tuvo que aprender a convivir. Una mujer a la que la vida enseñó que en la huida el cobarde demuestra su valentía.

      • Historia de las feminazis en América

        by Sidharta Ochoa

        A catalog of misdeeds, absurd situations or violent, using sites and contexts perfectly locatable in reality, with characters from fiction in regards to feminism. In this book the resource of facing what is called objective with fiction, to show that its boundaries are much blurrier than we like to suppose.Edgar Krauss

      • Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's/YA)
        November 2019

        Sebastián y los metamorfos

        by Alvaro Vanegas

        Sebastian was an ordinary young man until an accident left him orphaned and near death. From that moment on, a new family, supernatural powers, and immortality

      • Gender studies: women
        November 2015

        TIEMPO DE MUJERES. LITERATURA, EDAD Y ESCRITURA FEMENINA.

        by ALMELA BOIX, Margarita; GUZMÁN GARCÍA, Helena; SANFILIPPO, Marina; ZAMORANO RUEDA, Ana Isabel

        Dado el momento demográfico que vivimos, la colección de volúmenes sobre literatura y mujer, de la UNED, no podía dejar pasar la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre ese gran componente identitario que es la edad. Ésta, aunque fenómeno biológico, se interpreta socialmente y se articula en las estructuras de poder que gobiernan y definen las vidas tanto de hombres como de mujeres (y no solo en ese último tramo de la vida que tanto interés despierta últimamente). Como locus político donde se asienta lo que una mujer "debe" ser, es decir su "valor" social y cultural asociado a sus papeles de género, la edad presenta un fructífero campo de investigación para los estudios de la mujer.Los distintos capítulos del presente volumen constituyen un novedoso y original estudio y una reflexión sobre la representación literaria de las mujeres y sus edades.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2018

        2001 Punto Cero

        by Carlos A. Colla

        Welcome to a luminous journey, at times hilarious, that crosses the misery and dissects the hypocrisy of an abandoned society that struggles to emerge from the abyss. In a Buenos Aires besieged by violence and poverty in the worst economic and ethical crisis in contemporary Argentina, the lives of a select few are shipwrecked in a country that is crumbling. Prostitutes, unemployed workers and cartoneros merge in a ravaged city, pierced by anarchic holes of poverty, evictions and unemployment. Thanks to an unknown fate, the protagonist, disenchanted and responsible for his family, advances between the absurdity of the crisis, in a forward flight, without rest or contemplation, to try to recover a destiny torn from the roots. What could be the destination of such a particular transit?

      • Libelo de Sangre

        by Sandra Aza

        Madrid, winter of 1620. The happiness of the marriage formed by Sebastián Castro, a renowned clerk of the Villa, and Margarita Carvajal staggers when both become the main suspects of a blood libel: lawsuits that blame the Jews for sacrificing Christian children to collect their blood and whose jurisdiction belongs to the Holy Inquisition. With the bonfire hanging over them, their son Alonso, a thirteen-year-old boy, begins a desperate search for a way to save them, a purpose that tears her out of her warm existence and shows her the ice of life. In spite of everything, three headlights turn on light in the shadows of her misfortune: friendship, hope and a dream. Friendship is provided by Juan and Antonio, two rogue vagabonds. Hope beats in a bag full of money that seems to be pulling the strings of destiny. And the dream awaits him in college, where he plans to study law, become a lawyer, and exercise a law capable of preventing innocent people like his parents from suffering the rigors of injustice. Blood Libel is a fascinating story of love and friendship set in Madrid during the Golden Age, a vibrant but bleak time in which, while faith in God lit hearts, crimes against it lit bonfires.

      • Trusted Partner
        Biography & True Stories

        THE PATH

        by NEJC ZAPLOTNIK

        “Anyone looking for a goal will remain empty when it will be reached, but whoever finds a way, will always carry the goal inside.” Nejc Zaplotnik   THE PATH is a novel by Slovenian author and climber Nejc Zaplotnik (1952-1983). It was first published in Ljubljana 1981. The book narrates, in a novelized way, Zaplotnik’s life and experiences as an alpinist in postwar Slovenia, culminating in the ascension of both Makalu and Everest. It is 41 years since Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik made history as the first Slovenians who reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world. By 1979, the summit of Mount Everest had been reached by every major ridge, yet a large expedition from Yugoslavia arrived to top their last achievement of making the first ascent of Makalu South Face. The West Ridge of Everest was a long unconventional line to the top. It was first climbed by the Americans in 1963, and is still well celebrated in the United States today. Except the Americans climbed only the upper half. The Yugoslavians came to traverse it all starting at the base, low in the Lho La pass. Like many national expeditions in those days, it was huge. It included 25 Yugoslavian mountaineers, 19 Sherpas, three cooks, three kitchen boys, two mail runners, 700 porters and 18 tons of gear. The ascent had to overcome a steep and severe gap, which required a winch to overcome so it was possible to haul the gear over the broken portion of the ridge. All efforts and ingenuity combined, the Yugoslavians positioned three Slovenian climbers at Camp V who were close to each other, Nejc Zaplotnik, Andrej Stremfelj, and Andrej’s brother, Marko Stremfelj. The aim of the expedition was to climb the West Ridge, first time in history. An expedition that worked in the spirit of a time when collective consciousness ruled to achieve a goal would not work as it did if it were not logistically and organizationally well managed. From Khumbu Glacier at 5350 m, where the base camp was located, rises 700m high rock wall of the Lho La saddle, followed by a 1200-meter-high slope of the Western Shoulder, continuing into a 2500-meter long, laid but sharp and windy ridge, at the end of which is the beginning of the steep and vibrant peak of the Everest Pyramid. Because the wall of the Lho-La saddle was overhanging in the upper part, cargo could not be carried on the back, so Stefan Marenče constructed a manual ropeway at home, with the help of which more than 5 tonnes of equipment was used for the altitude supply of the camps.  The goal of the expedition was reached on 13 May 1979 at 13.51, when Andrej Štremfelj and Nejc Zaplotnik stood as the first Slovenes on the roof of the world. “We sit by the Chinese pyramid and we don’t know what to do!” (Nejc Zaplotnik) On May 15, 1979 at 2.30pm, Stane Belak-Schrauf, Croat Stipe Bozic and Sherpa Ang Phu also reached the summit. Ang Phu accidentally slipped 2000 meters deep onto the Chinese side when descending. Format: 18,8 x 12,5 cm 282 pages Paperback

      • True stories
        March 2016

        El Reino del Terror

        UN CASO INSOLITO vivido durante el reinado de Alfredo Stroessner, dictador de Paraguay 1954 - 1989

        by Kim Ekemar

        En 1982 dos viajeros ingenuos llegaron a Paraguay para, como turistas, conocer al país. Por una pregunta trivial, la pareja fue detenida por la policía política bajo la sospecha oficial de ser terroristas. Fueron obligados de quedarse frente a una cámara de tortura, incomunicados, hasta lograr escaparse por un descuido de los oficiales. Siete años más tarde, el dictador Alfredo Stroessner fue derrocado mediante un golpe de estado. Sin embargo, la historia no terminaría sino hasta un cuarto de siglo después del fin de la dictadura. Fue cuando el autor logró establecer contacto con el Dr Martín Almada – el desenterrador de los Archivos del Terror.  Este libro – minuciosamente investigado, y con las experiencias personales del autor integradas – documenta la turbia vida de Alfredo Stroessner, el dictador más longevo de Sudamérica durante el siglo XX. También revela la habilidad política del astuto dictador; la corrupción que fomentaba; la protección que otorgaba a nazis fugitivos y terroristas; las torturas que presenciaba; el narcotráfico bajo su supervisión; sus aberraciones sexuales; los abusos de sus secuaces; y, su participación en el pacto del Cono Sur – la Operación Cóndor.

      • Poetry
        March 2010

        Gramma

        by Daniel Rojas Pachas

        Gramma parte de un enfoque muy diferente. Cuerpo sí, pero cuerpo inaugural y como tal se revela y se rebela. No la realidad como algo pensado por la mente, como decía Wallace Stevens. Mi experiencia del poeta norteamericano, mi lectura y reflexión sobre su poesía me abren caminos más vastos más allá del simple academicismo. Poesía por encima de todo determinismo enajenante. Decir que en la poesía está la verdad absoluta de la creación, no sólo es negar la incertidumbre que nos hace humanos, sino envolver las palabras que lo expresan con su propia iluminación cegadora que al final produce los mismos estereotipos que prostituía. De esta manera Gramma (o el poeta por y para ella) va tejiendo su realidad con todos los riesgos asumidos, pero desde un coloquialismo que va más allá de la simple letra y entra en el grafema como medio antediscursivo, acercándose a la poesía visual y a veces a la liberación del fonema de su atadura a la palabra. No una poética del silencio, sino del grito. La poesía no puede ignorar la incertidumbre pues esa incertidumbre es precisamente su motor.   Antonio Arroyo Silva

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