Memoir genre books (768)
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Border : A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova EN
BulgariaDescription:
Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies
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Boy : Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl EN
WalesDescription:
'Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards, a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten.' Many remarkable things did happen to Roald Dahl when he was a boy, no doubt providing some of the marvellous ideas for his later books. And, like his stories, Dahl's childhood tales are unmissable.
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Country: Africa / 
South Africa
South Africa
Description:
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer red... continue
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Briefly Perfectly Human : Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End by Alua Arthur EN
GhanaDescription:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's most visible death doula. "A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd trust more to guide me through an understanding of death, and how it informs life." -- Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of Mad Honey and The Book of Two Ways "Briefly Perfectly Human is a beautiful, raw, light-bringing experience. Alua's v... continue
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Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for... continue
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Bucureştiul meu by Gabriela Tabacu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Încă o strălucitoare, bine provocatoare şi miezoasă „carte-maslu“, aşa cum nimerit li s-a spus volumelor colective de la Humanitas care povestesc feeric lumi de altădată, cu (stră)bunici fabuloşi, muzici adolescentine, reverii gastronomice, cărţi formatoare, jubilaţii senzoriale, caznele milităriei, mizeriile ceauşismului şi „casele vieţilor noastre“.
De această dată, Bucureştii salvaţi în 19 suflete. Oraş livrat cu dulce indolenţă tuturor contrastelor şi capriciilor edilitare, oraş al grădinilor, birturilor şi bisericilor, al huzurului, cutremurelor, incen... continue
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Burying the Typewriter : A Memoir by Carmen Bugan EN
Description:
Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food and laughter were plentiful. But eventually her father's behavior was too disturbing to ignore. He wept when listening to Radio Free Europe, hid pamphlets in sacks of dried beans, and mysteriously buried and reburied a typewriter. When she discovered he was a political dissident she became anxious for him to conform. However, with her mother in the hospital a... continue
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Butterfly : From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph by Yusra Mardini EN
SyriaDescription:
"Being a refugee is not a choice. Our choice is to die at home or risk death trying to escape." - Yusra MardiniYusra Mardini fled her native Syria to the Turkish coast in 2015 and boarded a small dinghy full of refugees bound for Greece. When the small and overcrowded boat's engine cut out, it began to sink. Yusra, her sister and two others took to the water, pushing the boat for three and a half hours in open water until they eventually landed on Lesbos, saving the lives of the passengers aboard. This is the story of that remarkable woman, whose journey started in a war-torn suburb of Damascu... continue
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Cactus Pear For My Beloved : A Family Story from Gaza by Samah Sabawi EN
PalestineDescription:
Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia. One of the gifts of Sama... continue
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Călător prin Europa : epistolar 1925-1930 by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa RO
ItalyDescription:
„Între 1925 şi 1930, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa a călătorit mult. A stat în marile capitale europene, descoperind «blânda frumuseţe» a Parisului, «bonomia» odihnitoare a Londrei mult iubite, dar şi «fascinaţia perversă» şi enigmatică a «nemiloasei» şi lividei metropole care era Berlinul. Itinerariile sale l-au purtat prin Austria, Elveţia, Tirol, ba chiar şi în Ţările Baltice.
Avea treizeci de ani. Călătorea cufundat în literatura europeană, cu o bibliotecă la purtător cuprinzând citate îndelung ... continue