Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere

6 best books like Trieste and The Meaning of Nowhere (Jan Morris): A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy, Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World, Utz

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

Author	Peter Handke
ISBN	1590170199

Peter Handke's mother was an invisible woman. Throughout her life, which spanned the Nazi era, the war, and the postwar consumer economy, she struggled to maintain appearances, only to arrive at a terrible recognition: "I'm not human any more." Not long after, she killed herself with an overdose of...

Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy

Author	Norman Lewis
ISBN	0786714387

From the author Graham Greene called "one of our best writers, not of any particular decade but of our century," comes a masterpiece about a war-ravaged city under occupation
As a young intelligence officer stationed in Naples following its liberation from Nazi forces, Norman Lewis recorded...

Where She Came From: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History

Author	Helen Epstein
ISBN	0841914443

"Where She Came From" is a memoir in the form of a quest for personal and historical understanding -- a multi-generational saga with the sweep and emotional impact of a novel. After the death of her mother, Frances, in 1989, Helen Epstein set out to research and reconstruct the life of her mother and that...

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

Author	Jean Nathan
ISBN	0312424922

In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book...

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

Author	Lucette Lagnado
ISBN	0060822120

In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the...

Utz

Author	Bruce Chatwin
ISBN	0140115765

Utz collects Meissen porcelain with a passion. His collection, which he has protected and enlarged through both World War II and Czechoslovakia's years of Stalinism, numbers more than 1,000 pieces, all crammed into his two-room Prague flat. Utz is allowed to leave the country each year, and although...