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The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter

7 best books like The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter (Élisabeth Gille): Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year, An Evening with Claire, A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw, Canone inverso, Harvesters, Jij zegt het, El Príncipe de la niebla

Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
AuthorCarlo Levi
ISBN0374530092
It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi—a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters—was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh...
An Evening with Claire
AuthorGaito Gazdanov
ISBN0882339346
Ένα περίεργο βιβλίο, με πολλά αυτοβιογραφικά στοιχεία, που μας συστήνει τον Γκαζντανοφ στο ελληνικό κοινό και είναι σίγουρα υποσχόμενο. Αλλά κατάφερα...
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN0374416966
An ALA Notable Book.

“Singer's memories of his youth in Poland make a powerful, brilliant children's book. The author lays out a panorama of Jewish life in the city-- the rabbis in black velvet and gabardine, the shopkeepers, the street urchins and schoolboys, the poverty, the confusion,...
Canone inverso
AuthorPaolo Maurensig
In an isolated Austrian music school in the 1930s, two boys, each struggling with the burden of talent, the curse of obsession, and the forces of history ranged against them, become locked in a complex friendship. One is a Hungarian bastard peasant boy touched by brilliance, the other the sole heir to...
Harvesters
AuthorCesare Pavese
ISBN0720642825
Prima prova narrativa di Pavese, Paesi tuoi venne pubblicato nel 1941 e suscitò immediatamente scandali in chi osteggiava ed entusiasmi in chi sosteneva quel neorealismo di cui Pavese era considerato un campione. E se oggi Paesi tuoi viene ritenuto soprattutto il primo libro che sviluppa temi squisitamente...
Jij zegt het
AuthorConnie Palmen
Voor de meeste mensen bestaan wij alleen in een boek, mijn bruid en ik. De afgelopen vijfendertig jaar heb ik met een machteloos afgrijzen moeten aanzien hoe onze echte levens bedolven raakten onder een modderstroom van apocriefe verhalen, valse getuigenissen, roddels, verzinsels, mythen, hoe...
El Príncipe de la niebla
AuthorCarlos Ruiz Zafón
A big change of pace from my nonfiction reading about World War II, The Prince of Mist is a middle grade novel by acclaimed Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I'd read Zafon's The Name of the Wind, a brilliant adult novel blending Gothic horror and magic realism, but I wasn't aware that Zafon actually began...
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