Popular European Memoir Books
Find memoir books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (237)
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The Thief’s Journal by Jean Genet EN
FranceDescription:
French playwright Genet creates a self-portrait in an account reflecting his life and radical ideas about society.
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The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti, James Amery Underwood EN
BulgariaDescription:
Marrakesh through the eyes and ears of one of Europe's major writers.
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The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier EN
Country: Europe / 
Switzerland
Switzerland
Description:
Travel writing, reflects convincingly on the meaning of the experience.
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The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography by Stefan Zweig EN
AustriaDescription:
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was hardly any other in the course of history." Zweig attracted to himself the best minds and loftiest souls of his era: Freud, Yeats, Borgese, Pirandello, Gorky, Ravel, Joyce, Toscanini, Jane Addams, Anatole... continue
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Thin Places : A Natural History of Healing and Home by Kerri ní Dochartaigh EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
An Indie Next Selection for April 2022 An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022 A Junior Library Guild Selection Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of “two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose” (The Guardian). Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her ... continue
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Things I Didn't Throw Out by Marcin Wicca EN
PolandDescription:
A wry and unsentimental account of the attempt to understand a parent as an independent person with their own history.
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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot EN
BelgiumDescription:
Documents the lives of missionaries who sought to convert the Huao Indians of Ecuador.
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Time Pieces : A Dublin Memoir by John Banville, Paul Joyce EN
IrelandDescription:
'If you're interested in Dublin, or if you're interested in the novelist John Banville, or if you're interested in radiantly superb sentences about whatever - I'm all three - then Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir is a book you'll not be able to put down' The Guardian 'A trove of arresting imagery, from the lushly poetic to the luridly absurd ... utterly delightful' Irish Times 'Delicious ... Banville's soarings, like a hawk's, are both wild and comprehensive, taking in everything and imagining more' New York Times For the young John Banville, Dublin was a place of enchantment and yearning. Each ye... continue
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To the Lake by Kapka Kassabova EN
Description:
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin, Kassabova encounters a civilizational crossroads. The Lakes are set within the mountainous borderlands of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece, and crowned by the old Roman road, the via Egnatia. Once a trading and spiritual nexus of the southern Balkans, it remains one of Eurasia's oldest surviving religious melting pots. With their remote rock churches, chang... continue
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Toamna decanei : convorbiri cu Antoaneta Ralian by Antoaneta Ralian, Radu Paraschivescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
mele, dislocările. O viaţă compusă din renunţări, pasiuni, succese, deziluzii, spaime, intuiţii, angoase şi bucurii. O viaţă schimonosită de convulsii ideologice şi înnobilată de prietenii înalte. O viaţă-slalom, o viaţă-arsură, o viaţă-caleidoscop şi, de ce nu?, o viaţă-document. Antoaneta Ralian nu este – şi nu ştiu să fi fost vreodată – grefierul acru al propriului destin. Prezenţa ei destinde în loc să crispeze. Avem de-a face cu un om care vorbeşte şi scrie şampanizat, cu sinceritate, cu umor şi cu o vioiciune pe care nu i-a avariat-o nici una dintre în... continue