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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Diario by Anne Frank ES
GermanyDescription:
Tras la invasión de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judíos alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Ana tenía sus oficinas. Eran ocho personas y permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidos y enviados a campos de concentración. En ese lugar y en las más precarias condiciones, Ana, a la sazón una niña de trece años, escribió su estremecedor Diario; un testimonio único en su género sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la pro... continue
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Diario argentino by Witold Gombrowicz, Sergio Pitol ES
PolandDescription:
La característica de Argentina es una belleza joven y baja, próxima al suelo y no se la encuentra en cantidades apreciables en las capas medias o superiores. Aquí únicamente el vulgo es distinguido. Sólo el pueblo es aristócrata. Únicamente la juventud es infalible. Es un país al revés, donde el pillo vendedor de una revista literaria tiene más estilo que todos los colaboradores de esa revista, donde los salones ?plutocráticos o intelectuales? espantan por su insipidez, donde al límite de la treintena ocurre la catástrofe, la total transformación de la juventud en una madurez por lo general po... continue
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Dicționar de lagăr by Oliver Lustig RO
RomaniaDescription:
A personal testimony of life and death in the Nazi concentration and extermination camps (Birkenau, Kaufering, Landsberg, etc.) in the form of a dictionary of terms specific to the camps and the mass murder of the Jews. also recalls Jewish attempts to resist, such as the Sonderkommando revolt in Birkenau in 1944.
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died: A Memoir by Seamus O'Reilly EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
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A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles. Séamas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? is a book about a family of loud, argumenta... continue
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Die Nacht : Erinnerung und Zeugnis by Elie Wiesel DE
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Atemlos, bewusst karg im Stil erzählt der Friedensnobelpreisträger seine Erfahrung als Kind in Auschwitz. Jede Zeile spricht uns unmittelbar an.
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LatviaDescription:
Doom 94 is Jonevs' debut novel, published first as Jelgava 94 in Latvia in 2013 and was quickly proved to be a big hit and bestseller. Translated into 11 languages already, it is here for the first time in English. The story is set in the 1990s in the Latvian city of Jelgava and looks at the burgeoning craze during this decade for the alternative culture of heavy metal music. Jonevs takes the reader deep inside the world of music, combining the intimate diary of a youngster trying to find himself by joining a subculture, as well as a skilful, detailed, and almost documentary-like depiction of ... continue
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Down the Drain by Julia Fox EN
ItalyDescription:
"Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: h... continue
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Een jihad van liefde by Mohamed El Bachiri, David Van Reybrouck NL
BelgiumDescription:
A heartbreaking plea for tolerance and compassion from Mohamed El-Bachiri, who lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels attack of March 2016.
Mohamed El-Bachiri is a Muslim. He lost his wife Loubna in the Brussels bombing of March 2016 – a young woman murdered by a fanatical jihadist. Mohamed was left to bring up their three sons on his own.
Instead of hating or collapsing into grief, he put together a short book of reflections on love, loss and the ways in which we can live together despite differences of religion and ideology.
It is a plea for tolerance and compassion, a rejection... continue
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El hombre en busca de sentido by Viktor E. Frankl ES
AustriaDescription:
El doctor Frankl, psiquiatra y escritor, suele preguntar a sus pacientes aquejados de múltiples padecimientos: «¿Por qué no se suicida usted?» Y muchas veces, de las respuestas extrae una orientación para la psicoterapia a aplicar: a éste, lo que le ata a la vida son los hijos; al otro, un talento, una habilidad sin explotar; a un tercero, quizás, sólo unos cuantos recuerdos que merece la pena rescatar del olvido. Tejer estas tenues hebras de vidas rotas en una urdimbre firme, coherente, significativa y responsable es el objeto con que se enfrenta la logoterapia. En esta obra, Viktor E. Frankl... continue