The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
8 best books like The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 (Béla Zombory-Moldován): Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land, Paradise, Mama Day, The World of Yesterday, Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History, Un anno sull'altipiano, The Land Breakers
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Land
| Author | Lauret Savoy |
| ISBN | 1619025736 |
Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics...
| Author | Toni Morrison |
| ISBN | 0452280397 |
"They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time." So begins this visionary work from a storyteller. Toni Morrison's first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Paradise opens with a horrifying scene of mass violence and chronicles its genesis in an all-black...
| Author | Gloria Naylor |
| ISBN | 0679721819 |
Bow down, bitches. My favorite novel of the year has emerged. Initially, I didn't even think I would enjoy Mama Day that much; crazy to think that within a span of three days this wonderful novel has completely taken over my life and brought me so much joy and heartache. I'm definitely going to check out...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 0803252242 |
Stefan Zweig's memoir, The World of Yesterday, recalls the golden age of prewar Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall with the onset of two world wars. Zweig's passionate, evocative prose paints a stunning portrait of an era that danced brilliantly on the brink of extinction....
| Author | Faïza Guène |
| ISBN | 0156030489 |
He thought I'd forged my mom's name on the slip. How stupid is that? On this thing Mom just made a kind of squiggly shape on the page. That jerk didn't even think about what he was saying, didn't even ask himself why her signature might be weird. He's one of those people who think illiteracy is like AIDS. It...
| Author | Rachel Polonsky |
| ISBN | 0571237800 |
When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations...
| Author | Emilio Lussu |
| ISBN | 8806173146 |
Scritto nel 1936, apparso per la prima volta in Francia nel '38 e poi da Einaudi nel 1945, questo libro è ancora oggi una delle maggiori opere che la nostra letteratura possegga sulla Grande Guerra.
L'Altipiano è quello di Asiago, l'anno dal giugno 1916 al luglio 1917. Un anno di continui assalti...
| Author | John Ehle |
| ISBN | 0977228371 |
My father was raised in Boone, NC, in the far northwestern corner of the Appalachians of that state, about 30 miles from the Tennessee line. His parents had a hillside farm there, and I can just barely remember seeing my grandfather behind a plow being pulled by a mule. Plowing furrows on the side of a mountain...
