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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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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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
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Call the Midwife : A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth EN
EnglandDescription:
The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side. An unfortgettable story of moth... continue
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Catching Fire: A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn EN
Description:
An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.
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Checkout : A Life on the Tills by Anna Sam EN
FranceDescription:
Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour? Can you smile and say 'thanks' 500 times a day? Do you never need to go to the toilet? Then working on a supermarket checkout could be just the job for you. Anna Sam spent eight years as a checkout girl. She poured out her frustrations about the job in a blog that soon developed a massive following. Checkout A Life on the Tills is a witty look at what it's really like to work in a hypermarket: the relentless grind and less-than-perfect working conditions, along with the people watching and encounters with every kind of customer from the bizarre to the downrig... continue
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Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen EN
DenmarkDescription:
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian The first volume in The Copenhagen Trilogy, the searing portrait of a woman's journey through love, friendship, ambition and addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers Tove knows she is a misfit, whose childhood is made for a completely different girl. In her working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen, she is enthralled by her wild, red-headed friend Ruth, who initiates her into adult secrets. But Tove cannot reveal her true self to her or to anyone else. For 'long, mysterious words begin to... continue
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Cinco Voltas Na Bahia E Um Beijo Para Caetano Velo by Alexandra Lucas Coelho PT
PortugalDescription:
O terceiro livro dedicado ao Brasil da premiada escritora e jornalista portuguesa Alexandra Lucas Coelho parte de uma provocação de Caetano Veloso. Ao elogiar, em ocasião do lançamento da edição brasileira do romance Deus-dará, em 2019, os livros anteriores da autora, o compositor baiano declarou: “falta Bahia”. Alexandra concordou e resolveu mergulhar nas suas experiências em terras baianas para escrever este novo livro, uma combinação de ensaio, reportagem e crônica. A partir das viagens realizadas em épocas distintas (primeira volta: 1997, segunda volta: 2016, terceira volta: 2017, quarta v... continue