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Recommended memoir books (3)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Argentina for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Dislocations by Sylvia Molloy EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
How do you keep a friendship intact, when Alzheimer's has stolen the common ground of language, memory, and experience, that unites you? In brief, sharply drawn moments, Sylvia Molloy’s Dislocations records the gradual loss of a beloved friend, M.L., a disappearance in ways expected (forgotten names, forgotten moments) and painfully surprising (the reversion to a formal, proper Spanish from their previous shared vernacular). There are occasions of wonder, too—M.L. can no longer find the words to say she is dizzy, but can translate that message from Spanish to English, when it's passed along by... continue

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The ghetto within by Santiago H. Amigorena EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that “has stifled [him] since [he] was born”, weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring novel of loss and unshakeable love. A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorena’s grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance,The Ghetto Within re-imagines the life of this Jewish grandfather, a Polish exile in Argentina, whose guilt provok... continue

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The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara EN

Rating: 4 (7 votes)
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