Author : Péter Nádas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312427964
A novel exploring human relations. Its hero is a Hungarian writer who lives through the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and has a homosexual affair with a German poet in East Berlin.
Author : Ana María Shua
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826319487
The humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.
Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374714886
The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.
Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780395895436
Using family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.
Author : Maria Stepanova
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811228843
An exploration of life at the margins of history from one of Russia’s most exciting contemporary writers Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize Winner of the MLA Lois Roth Translation Award With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. In dialogue with writers like Roland Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Susan Sontag, and Osip Mandelstam, In Memory of Memory is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice. Dipping into various forms—essay, fiction, memoir, travelogue, and historical documents—Stepanova assembles a vast panorama of ideas and personalities and offers an entirely new and bold exploration of cultural and personal memory.
Author : Lara Avery
Publisher : Poppy
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316283770
Perfect for fans of Everything, Everything and Five Feet Apart, a bittersweet story of love and loss, told one journal entry at a time. Sammie McCoy is a girl with a plan: graduate at the top of her class and get out of her small town as soon as possible. Nothing will stand in her way-not even the rare genetic disorder the doctors say will slowly steal her memories and then her health. So the memory book is born: a journal written to Sammie's future self. It's where she'll record every perfect detail of her first date with longtime-crush Stuart, and where she'll admit how much she's missed her childhood friend Cooper. The memory book will ensure Sammie never forgets the most important parts of her life-the people who have broken her heart, and those who have mended it. If Sammie's going to die, she's going to die living.
Author : Lois Lowry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2016
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Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry offers an intimate look at pivotal moments that affected her life, inspired her writing, and often evolved into her rich novels.
Author : Péter Nádas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 2007-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374299644
"Fire and Knowledge also acquaints us more fully with Nadas's evolution as a writer of fiction, for it includes stories dating from the 1960s and 1970s when he had to write in extremely stringent, sometimes dangerous circumstances and was often kept from publishing - as well as stories from more recent years, since the publication of his major novels and the reintegration of Western and Eastern Europe."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Monica McInerney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698137264
Months after a tragic accident, Ella O’Hanlon flees to London in an attempt to escape her grief, leaving behind the two people she blames for her loss: Aidan, the love of her life, and Jess, her spoiled half-sister. Taken in by her beloved uncle Lucas, Ella discovers that his extraordinary house holds many wonderful memories for her…and his group of transitory boarders provides a refreshing and welcome emotional tonic. But as Ella settles into a comfortable new role as unofficial cook and housemother, Jess secretly comes to London to pursue her own dreams, precipitating an unexpected family reunion and an exploration of the heart—one famished for love, for healing, and for forgiveness. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED
Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 1994-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780694006298
Wilder based the Little House books on memories of her childhood, growing up on the American frontier. The Little House Book of Memories is just right for young children to record their thoughts, remembrances, and hopes. Includes plenty of space to record special moments and everyday happenings. Features original illustrations and quotes from the Little House books.
