Memoir books from Colombia
Recommended memoir books (7)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Colombia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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A trăi pentru a-ţi povesti viaţa by Gabriel García Márquez RO
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Acest volum de memorii vine să consfinţească faptul că aproape tot ce se ştie despre Gabriel García Márquez provine din interviurile şi din opera sa şi să aducă mărturii emoţionante despre "viaţa secretă" a autorului căci, aşa cum acesta se destăinuie, "omul are trei vieţi: viaţa publică, viaţa particulară şi viaţa secretă, cea pe care o povestim cel mai adesea noi, scriitorii; toată viaţa mea este încifrată în romanele mele". Iar cartea de faţă oferă cu generozitate cifrul prin care cititorului îi este îngăduit să pătrundă în uni... continue
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Magical Realism for Non-Believers : A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
"Magical Realism for Non-Believers is set against the backdrops of Colombia and the United States (particularly Minneapolis) of the mid-1990s, and flashes back to the unsettled freedoms of the 1970s. It's the story of a half-Colombian, half-Minnesotan exploring her past and discovering her future, taking readers on a journey from the US to Fajardo's birthplace in Colombia and the discovery of a half-brother she never knew existed, to the creation of her own family in Minneapolis"--
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Oblivion : A Memoir by Héctor Abad EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
Now the basis for the acclaimed film Memories of My Father, directed by Fernando Trueba. "An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." —El País Héctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written memorial to the author's father, Héctor Abad Gómez, whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987. Twenty years in the writing, it paints an unforgettable picture of a man who followed his conscience and paid for it with his life during one of the darkest periods in Latin America's recent history.
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The Book of Emma Reyes by Emma Reyes EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account . . .of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood. This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, and translated and introduced by acclaimed Peruvian-American writer Daniel Alarcón . . .
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds : A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER • From the bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy. “Rojas Contreras reacquaints herself with her family’s past, weaving their stories with personal narrative, unraveling legacies of violence, machismo and colonialism… In the process, she has written a spellbinding and genre-defying ancestral history.”—New York Times Book Review For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia... continue
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The Roots of the Guava Tree : Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia by Sonia Daccarett EN
Country: South America / Colombia
Colombia
Description:
A debut contemporary memoir about a young woman struggling to understand her identity as the daughter of a Jewish mother and Christian Palestinian father, coming of age in Colombia as increasing violence and the instability of the 1980s engulf her country. Sonia Daccarett grew up with a Jewish mother and a Christian Palestinian father in Colombia during the drug-war 1980s. When she asks her parents questions about their family’s ethnicity and religion they answer evasively, defining their family religion and ethnicity as “nothing.” Grandparents and family members who speak Yiddish, Hebrew, and... continue