Popular European Memoir Books
Find memoir books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (85)
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Kon-Tiki : Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl EN
NorwayDescription:
The story of the Pacific journey by six men on a raft in search of the path taken by Kon-Tiki, a white voyager, 1500 years before. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Les armoires vides by Annie Ernaux FR
FranceDescription:
Etudiante en lettres, l'auteure se remémore la période où affligée par sa famille de tous les vices, elle en vient à la détester et se trouve confrontée à l'expérience difficile de l'avortement.
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Madres e hijos by Theodor Kallifatides ES
GreeceDescription:
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
AustriaDescription:
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
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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Maus : A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman EN
SwedenDescription:
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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Mi gato Autícko by Bohumil Hrabal ES
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
En su casa de Kersko, cerca de Praga, Hrabal se recluye para escribir y cuidar de sus gatos, entre los cuales su favorito es Autícko. Los gatos marcan el ritmo cotidiano con sus juegos, su deseo de retozar, el horario de sus comidas. Y Hrabal se entrega a ellos con una ternura excepcional. Pero cuando los gatos empiezan a reproducirse en exceso, el autor ya no tiene tiempo para trabajar ni para dormir. Se ve obligado entonces a tomar medidas para preservar un equilibrio en la colonia, y es cuando sufre y se odia a sí mismo, pues sabe que a pesar de su amor por estos gatitos debe ... continue
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Motherfield : Poems and Belarusian Protest Diary by Julia Cimafiejeva EN
BelarusDescription:
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns about the detention of family and frien... continue
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My Family and Other Enemies by Mary Novakovich EN
CroatiaDescription:
Travel journalist Mary Novakovich explores her family's history in Lika in her native Croatia, recalling childhood visits and frequent trips over the years. Part travelogue, part memoir, it is also an exploration of identity for people with more than one ethnicity.
