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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Amintiri by Zoe Cămărăşescu RO
RomaniaDescription:
Fata de actuala domnie a vulgaritatii, prostiei, faradelegii si marlaniei (post)comuniste, lumea Bucurestilor lui Carol I si Ferdinand, ai lui Claymoor, Frederic Dame si Ulysse de Marsillac, I.C. Bratianu si Marghiloman, P.P. Carp si Eugeniu Carada, Titu Maiorescu si Mitica Sturdza, orasul Expozitiei de pe dealul Filaret din 1906, in Romania Pelesului, Cotrocenilor si «trenurilor de placere » catre Sinaia «anilor nebuni », adica de pe la 1900 pana la Marele Razboi ne covarseste cu un peisaj (geografic, uman, istoric, economic, politic si cultural) de-a dreptul zdrobitor... continue
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Amintirile unei nonagenare: călătoriile mele, scriitorii mei by Antoaneta Ralian RO
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„Într-o carte pe care am tradus-o, un personaj bătrân se simte atât de anonim şi de inconsistent încât, ca să se convingă că există, calcă adânc în straturile de zăpadă, apoi întoarce capul ca să-şi vadă urmele, dovezi că da, există. Eu sunt ferm convinsă că încă exist. Dar, asemenea bătrânului, prin cărţulia de faţă, întorc şi eu capul, să-mi văd urmele.“ (Antoaneta RALIAN)
„Juvenilă în spirit, în entuziasme și capacitate de a admira, de o feminitate adorabilă (doar ea e în stare să fugă d... continue
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An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson EN
ScotlandDescription:
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. An Inland Voyage, first published in 1878, is Stevenson's earliest book. It describes a voyage undertaken with this Scottish friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, mostly along the Oise River from Belgium through France, in the autumn of 1876. Stevenson and Simpson each had a wooden canoe rigged with a sail, propelled with double-bladed paddles, a style that had recently become popular. An Inland Voyage paints a delightful picture of Europe in a more innocent time, with quirky innkeepers, travelling enter... continue
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Elliott, Jason EN
EnglandDescription:
"Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of the capital, Kabul.
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Anger Is My Middle Name : A Memoir by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen EN
DenmarkDescription:
An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live whe... continue
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Asa s-au intamplat, asa le-am insemnat by Luli August Sturdza RO
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„Mulţumesc fiecărui om al cărui drum s-a întâlnit vreodată cu al meu: de la fiecare am învăţat. Am învăţat de la grădinile pe care le-am îngrijit, de la animalele care au trăit în preajma mea. Am învăţat de la copacii sub care m-am odihnit. Câţiva, fiindcă de puţine ori mi-a fost dat să mă odihnesc. [...] Dacă veţi vrea să faceţi o pomană pentru mine, stropiţi o plantă însetată, hrăniţi un câine flămând şi învăţaţi copiii să se uite la stele. Bogdaproste. Bucuraţi-vă de fiecare clipă.“ (Luli August STURDZA)
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Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig EN
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Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BBC in the heart of the capital. It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but it's the way things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way. From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, 'the first black woman programme maker at the BBC', to di... continue
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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.