Popular Asian Memoir Books

Find memoir books written by authors from Asia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (87)

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I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali EN

Rating: 4.5 (4 votes)
Country: Asia / Yemen flag Yemen
Description:
“I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” Nujood Ali's childhood came to an abrupt end in 2008 when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujood tells of abuse at her husband's hands and of her daring escape. With the help of local advocates and the press, Nujood obtained her freedom—an extraordinary achievement in Yemen, where almost half of all girls are married under the legal age. Nujood's courageo... continue

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I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached EN

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Country: Asia / Lebanon flag Lebanon
Description:
Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and n outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.

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I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Palestine flag Palestine
Description:
Palestinian poet Barghouti relates his homecoming to Ramallah after 30 years in exile, offering a moving account of what it means to be a Palestinian today. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.

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Ik zal de wereld nooit meer zien : aantekeningen uit de gevangenis by Ahmet Altan NL

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Country: Asia / Turkey flag Turkey
Description:
Persoonlijk relaas door de Turkse schrijver en journalist (1950) over zijn verblijf in de gevangenis als politieke gevangene na de mislukte coup van 2016.

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In Order To Live : A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park EN

Rating: 4 (9 votes)
Country: Asia / North Korea flag North Korea
Description:
'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from Ch... continue

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In the Name of Honour - A Memoir by Mukhtar Mai EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Pakistan flag Pakistan
Description:
This rousing account is the exclusive, authorized memoir of international rights icon Mukhtar Mai, whose courageous struggle for justice earned her acclaim as "the Rosa Parks of Pakistan."

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Joseph Anton : A Memoir by Salman Rushdie EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
The extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. The story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.

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Laughing Without an Accent : Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
The author continues the story of her Iranian-American family and their experiences at home and abroad, from dealing with her French husband's Christmas traditions to taking fifty-one Iranian family members on a cruise to Alaska.

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Leer Lolita en Teherán by Azar Nafisi ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
Cada jueves a la mañana a lo largo de dos años, Azar Nafisi, una valiente y brillante profesora iraní, reúne clandestinamente en el salón de su casa a siete de sus alumnas más aventajadas con el fin de leer libros prohibidos: obras de Jane Austen, Henry James, Scott Fitzgerald, y por supuesto, de Vladimir Nabokov, el autor de Lolita. Mientras las jóvenes poco a poco se expresan a través de los libros, se dan cuenta cómo sus propias vidas se van transformando y mezclando con la trama de las obras a las que se entregan.

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Leer Lolita en Teheran

Leer Lolita en Teheran by Azar Nafisi ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Iran flag Iran
Description:
Leer Lolita en Teherán es, en el acto y en el título, una abierta manifestación de la libertad de la imaginación frente a las prohibiciones, políticas o de cualquier índole. También podría haberse llamado Leer Gatsby, o James, o incluso Austen, que son las partes en que se divide el libro (podría agregarse a Saúl Bellow). Nafisi, es profesora de Literatura, y luego de su abandono de la Universidad, dictó durante dos años un taller para un grupo de jóvenes. El taller, y el libro dialogan con las obras li... continue