Memoir genre books (303)


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Los días del Cáucaso

Los días del Cáucaso by Banine, ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Azerbaijan flag Azerbaijan
Description:
UNO DE LOS MÁS ORIGINALES, DIVERTIDOS Y TREPIDANTES LIBROS AUTOBIOGRÁFICOS DEL SIGLO XX. El elegante, irónico y conmovedor retrato de una mujer y una época extraordinarias. «Con una prosa exquisita y una gloriosa capacidad para captar lo absurdo y lo cómico ;incluso en medio de los más trágicos sucesos;, Banine nos ofrece el relato de su embriagadora y turbulenta juventud, desde las orillas del mar Caspio hasta París». The Spectator «Tan vívida e ingeniosamente nos revela la autora un mundo por completo desconocido que, apenas comienzas Los días del Cáucaso, ya te encuentras del todo absorto e... continue

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Love and Justice: A Journey of Empowerment, Activism, and Embracing Black Beauty by Laetitia Ky EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Ivory Coast flag Ivory Coast
Description:
"The personal story in words and photos of artist and activist Laetitia Ky, known for sculpting her own hair to create powerful and joyful artwork that embraces the beauty of Black hair and style, the fight for social justice, and the journey toward self-love"--

143.

Madres e hijos by Theodor Kallifatides ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
A los sesenta y ocho años, Theodor Kallifatides, exiliado en Suecia desde hace más de cuatro décadas, visita a su madre de noventa y dos, que sigue residiendo en Atenas. Ambos saben que puede ser uno de sus últimos encuentros. Durante la semana que pasan juntos, recuerdan lo que ha sido lo más importante en sus vidas con una presencia decisiva del padre, de quien Theodor está leyendo el recuento escrito que este le ha dejado de lo que ha sido su difícil existencia, desde sus orígenes como exiliado griego en Turquía, pasando por sus... continue

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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and mov... continue

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Man's Search For Meaning : The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl EN

Rating: 5 (10 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / China flag China
Description:
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America-and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of ... continue

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Maus : A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Characterising the Nazis as cats and the Jews as mice, this book recounts, through a complex and sustained allegory the experiences of the author's father in Auschwitz during WWII.

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Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal el Saadawi EN

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Country: Africa / Egypt flag Egypt
Description:
A young Egyptian woman clashes with her traditional family when she chooses a career in medicine. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage and motherhood, she cuts her hair short and works fiercely to realise her dreams. At medical school, she begins to understand the mysteries of the human body. After years of denying her own desires, the doctor begins a series of love affairs that allow her to explore her sexuality – on her own terms.

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Mighty Be Our Powers : How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Liberia flag Liberia
Description:
Recounts the experiences of a Liberian activist as she discusses how she united Christian and Muslim women to campaign for an end to war in her nation.

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Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka : The Autobiography of a South Sea Trader's Daughter by Florence Frisbie EN

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Description:
Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka (2nd edition) by Florence (Johnny) Frisbie is the first book written by a Polynesian woman. It tells the amazing story of a young girl growing up on a remote island in the Cook Islands group. Written when Johnny was between the ages of 12 and 14, and published in 1948 when she was 15, Johnny likens her travels through South Pacific islands to those of Ulysses in the Odyssey. Through Johnny's fresh and unspoiled eyes, we read of a Garden-of-Eden existence on a remote atoll, where the land and the sea provide all that is necessary for life. The sea brings danger as we... continue