"Frederico Garcia Lorca, one of the outstanding poets and dramatists of this century, was murdered at the age of thirty-eight by Nationalist rebels in his native Granada on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Since then the Franco regime has sought consistently to prevent the world from knowing how Lorca died, and a tissue of lies and misrepresentations has been woven around both the great poet's death and those of the thousands of ohter Republican supporters executed in Granada. In this book Ian Gibson, who has spent many years researching the subject, marvellously evokes the background to the repression and, in a carefully-documented study, describes the reign of terror that caused the deaths of so mant Spaniards--a story that has never fully been told before. His account of Lorca's arrest and death is the result of meticulous investigation, involving the tracking down of dozens of people concerned in the events surrounding the poet's last days, many of whom were directly implicated in the many Granada killings. This important book, established conclusively how Lorca died. It is no wonder that the book is banned in Spain"
"The Gentle Barbarian is Bohumil Hrabal's moving homage to Vladim r Boudn k, a brilliant but troubled Czech graphic artist who died tragically at the age of forty-four a few months after the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The Gentle Barbarian takes us to the heart of Boudn k's creative drive: his gift for infusing the objects and events of everyday life with transcendent magic, and his passion for sharing his ideas and his art with anyone willing to listen. Hrabal's anecdotal portrait includes another controversial figure in that early postwar Czech avant-garde: the poet Egon Bondy, the pen name and alter ego of a self-styled "left-wing Marxist" philosopher called Zbynek Fiser.
Hrabal's amazing memoir celebrates the creative spirits who strove to reject, ignore, or burrow beneath an artificial "revolutionary" fervor. Fueled by vast quantities of beer, emboldened by friendship, driven by a sense of their own destiny, they filled the intellectual and spiritual vacuum around them with manic humor, inspiration, and purpose, and in doing so, pointed the way to a kind of salvation."
Starr Carter är 16 år och lever två liv. Ett utspelar sig i den fattiga förorten och det andra i den fina privatskolan. Hemma måste hon tona ner sina skolresultat och i skolan måste hon tona ner sin attityd. Det finns ingenstans hon kan vara sig själv. En dag inträffar något fruktansvärt och Starr måste göra ett val som påverkar hela hennes liv.
Journalistisk granskning av den ismaliske ledare Fethullah Gülen och Gülenrörelsens inflytande i det Turkiske samhället.
När boken konfiskerades 2011, publicerade en lång rad skribenter och redaktörer en version av boken under namnet 000Kitap (000Bok på svenska) i protest mot censuren.