Memoir genre books (766)
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A Month and a Day : A Detention Diary by Ken Saro-Wiwa EN
NigeriaDescription:
The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights fo the Ogoni people of Nigeria.
22.
A River in Darkness : One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa EN
JapanDescription:
Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.
23.
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid EN
Country: North America / 
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda
Description:
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, this memoir is a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of "Annie John."
24.
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams : A Life Story by Peter Handke EN
AustriaDescription:
The avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright examines his mother's life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, ending in suicide; while recording his rage over the problems that his mother left for him to solve after her death.
25.
A Stranger at Home : A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
The powerful memoir of an Inuvialuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school.
26.
A Stranger in My Own Country : The 1944 Prison Diary by Hans Fallada EN
GermanyDescription:
“I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.” Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of “inward emigration”. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from the nightmare of the Nazi years. He records his thoughts about spying and denunciation, about the threat to his livelihood and his literary work and about the fate of many friends and contemporaries. The confessional mode did not come naturally to... continue
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A Thousand Miles to Freedom : My Escape from North Korea by Ŭn-ju Kim, Eunsun Kim, Sébastien Falletti EN
Country: Asia / 
North Korea
North Korea
Description:
A woman who escaped North Korea as a girl with her mother relates the harrowing story of her nine-year journey to freedom.
28.
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir EN
ScotlandDescription:
The American naturalist recounts his 1867 trip from Indiana to Florida and describes the effects of the Civil War on the fields, forests, and people he encountered along the way.
29.
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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A Very Easy Death by Simone De Beauvoir EN
FranceDescription:
Day-by-day account of the death of the author's mother.