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author: Allende, Isabel
'My invented country' is a memoir in which truth is most definitely stranger than fiction. Exploring the events of her life and those of the country in which she lived until the assassination of her cousin, the president Salvador Allende, in Pinochet's military coup, Allende takes us on a highly personal tour through her homeland, bringing it to life. This is where her grandfather saw the devil on a bus, recognising him because of his 'green cloven hooves like a billygoat' and her great aunt sprouted wings, a place of love charms, ghosts and continual family feuds. In this book, portraits of her family and friends jostle with vivid descriptions of local customs and beliefs but through it all strides the indomitable figure of the young Isabel.
Aleksandar Hemon's lives begin in Sarajevo, a small, blissful city where a young boy's life is consumed with street soccer with the neighborhood kids, resentment of his younger sister, and trips abroad with his engineer-cum-beekeeper father. Here, a young man's life is about poking at the pretensions of the city's elders with American mus...
Birding and traveling as a child and later an adult who is blind, Imbar Golt tells of her experiences in countries all around the world. Sounds, smells and tastes fill these stories of love from people and nature itself. Adventures of growing up blind in a sighted society and later travels and experiences birding with many people in many ...
Sierra Leone. At the age of 12, Mariatu Kamara was raped by a family friend, then captured by rebels who cut off her hands. Despite her wounds, Kamara walked out of the bush and sought help, ending up in an amputee camp, where she gave birth to a son who died of malnutrition. When foreign journalists interviewed Kamara in the camp, her st...
Memories of a visually impaired woman adopted into a family plagued with Domestic violence, Mental illness and Addiction. Age eleven she's told of her adoption. She sets out to find her birth parents. In doing so, discovers her identity. Her soul battles against the influences of her environment. A war is waged in order to replace her tru...
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