Memoir books from Belgium
Recommended memoir books (3)
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If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Belgium for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Een jihad van liefde by Mohamed El Bachiri, David Van Reybrouck NL
Description:
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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Through Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliot EN
Description:
Documents the lives of missionaries who sought to convert the Huao Indians of Ecuador.
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War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans EN
Description:
Shortly before his death in 1981, Stefan Hertmans' grandfather gave him a couple of filled exercise books. Stories he'd heard as a child had led Hertmans to suspect that their contents might be disturbing, and for years he didn’t dare to open them. When he finally did, he discovered unexpected secrets. His grandfather’s life was marked by years of childhood poverty in late-nineteenth-century Belgium, by horrific experiences on the frontlines during the First World War and by the loss of the young love of his life. He sublimated his grief in the silence of painting. Drawing on these diary entri... continue