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Author: Péter Nádas
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-07-22
Total Pages: 722
ISBN-13: 0312427964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780395895436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing family photographs and quotes from her books, the author provides glimpses into her life.
Author: Petina Gappah
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2016-02-02
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0374714886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Maria Stepanova
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0811228843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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: Ana María Shua
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780826319487
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe humorous and moving story of three generations of a Jewish family in Argentina.
Author: Lois Lowry
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo-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: Applewood Books
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2008-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780939510849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 20 year diary has fine calligraphy and drawings by Lynn Anderson. Each year features a pen and ink drawing of a different 19th century tradition, accompanied by an explanation of the holiday custom featured. Record visitors, special Christmas cards, family photographs and other memories.
Author: John S. Rickard
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999-01-06
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780822321705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVDiscusses Ulysses arguing that through the operation of memory, it mimics the working of the human mind and achieves its status as one of the most intellectual achievements of the 20th century./div
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1994-10
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780694006298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilder 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.
Author: Mary Carruthers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-05-01
Total Pages: 875
ISBN-13: 1107652251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).
