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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Het boek der fluisteringen by Varujan Vosganian NL
RomaniaDescription:
Het boek der fluisteringen bevat het relaas van de Armeense diaspora, opgetekend door de verteller die van jongs af aan onder de tafel zat, wanneer zijn beide grootvaders zachtjes en bedachtzaam spraken over hun volk, zongen of murmelden.
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High Albania by Mary Edith Durham EN
EnglandDescription:
"High Albania is a passionate and flamboyant account of life in the formidable mountainous terrain of Northern Albania. Travelling throughout the Balkans for seven years - particularly in Albania with which she became intrigued - Durham cut a strange figure in her 'waterproof Burberry skirt' and 'Scotch plaid golf cape', but she won the people's trust, respect and affection and was called 'The Queen of the Mountain People'."--BOOK JACKET.
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How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust EN
AustriaDescription:
Lust's follow-up to her first internationally lauded graphic memoir, How I Tried to Be a Good Person, picks up directly where its predecessor left off. Revealing and powerful, Lust recounts her life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in Vienna in the 1990s - and of her love for two men: the "perfect companion" Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the "perfect lover," Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As her relationships with the two men evolve, jealousy increasingly mounts and leads to emotional and violent outbreaks that threaten her life.
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I Am, I Am, I Am : Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell EN
Country: Europe / 
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Description:
Presents a memoir told entirely in seventeen near-death experiences stemming from a dangerous childhood illness, accidents, an encounter with a disturbed person, and the author's daily efforts to protect her daughter from the vulnerabilities of a high-risk condition.
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson EN
SlovakiaDescription:
What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. It wasn’t long ago that Elli led a normal life that included family, friends, school, and thoughts about boys. A life in which Elli could lie and daydream for hours that she was a beautiful and elegant celebrated poet. But these adolescent daydreams quickly darken in March 1944, when the Nazi... continue
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I Heard Her Call My Name : A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante EN
BelgiumDescription:
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate “Reading this book is a joy . . . much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a standard for those in need of guidance. ” —The Washington Post “Sante’s bold devotion to complexity and clarity makes this an exemplary memoir. It is a clarion call to live one’s most authentic life.” —The Boston Globe “Not to be missed, I Heard Her Call My Name is a powerful example of self-reflection and a vibrant exploration of the modern dynamics of gender and identity.” —Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2... continue
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I Want You to Know We're Still Here : A Post-Holocaust Memoir by Esther Safran Foer EN
PolandDescription:
"Esther Safran Foer grew up in a family where history was too terrible to speak of. The child of parents who were each the sole survivors of their respective families, for Esther the Holocaust was always felt but never discussed. So when Esther's mother casually mentions an astonishing revelation--that her father had a previous wife and daughter, both killed in the Holocaust--Esther resolves to find the truth. Armed with only a black-and-white photo and hand-drawn map, she travels to Ukraine, determined to find the shtetl where her father hid during the war. What she finds not only reshapes he... continue
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I, Francis by Carlo Carretto EN
ItalyDescription:
"The 40th anniversary edition of an Orbis classic-Francis of Assisi's spirituality and life explained in the inimitable voice of Carlo Carretto"--
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In My Hands : Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke EN
Description:
Recounts the experiences of the author who, as a young Polish girl, hid and saved Jews during the Holocaust.
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In Search of a Name : A Novel by Marjolijn van Heemstra EN
Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle’s supposed heroism during World War II. D says that a name always fits in the end, that a name is like a leather shoe that forms itself to the foot. But in my mind, it’s the other way around: a person grows into his name. Marjolijn van Heemstra has heard about her great-uncle’s heroism for as long as she can remember. As a resistance fighter, he was the mastermind of a bombing operation that killed a Dutch man who collaborated with the Nazis, and later b... continue