Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir

✍ Nguyen, Kien 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 en-US ⚖ 168 KB

Saigon fell to the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. Kien Nguyen watched the last U.S. Army helicopter leave without him, without his brother, without his mother, without his grandparents. Left to a nightmarish existence in a violated & decimated country, Kien was more at risk than most because of his o

Childhood In Malabar: A Memoir

✍ Kamala Das 📂 Fiction 📅 2013;2003 🏛 Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 124 KB 👁 2 views

It Is The Second World War And Kamala And Her Brother Are Removed From Their Parents Home In Calcutta To The Safer Environs Of Their Village In Northern Kerala.At Once An Outsider And An Integral Part Of Her Ancestral Home, Kamala Struggles To Fathom The Intricacies Of Class, Caste And Language. But

The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars

✍ Smith, Emma 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

*The Great Western Beach* is Emma Smith's wonderfully atmospheric memoir of a 1920s childhood in Newquay, Cornwall. She recalls the rocks, the sea, the beaches, the picnics, the teas and pasties, the bracing walks, the tennis tournaments and bathing parties, the curious residents and fascinating hol

The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars

✍ Smith, Emma 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Bloomsbury Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 413 KB

*The Great Western Beach* is Emma Smith's wonderfully atmospheric memoir of a 1920s childhood in Newquay, Cornwall. She recalls the rocks, the sea, the beaches, the picnics, the teas and pasties, the bracing walks, the tennis tournaments and bathing parties, the curious residents and fascinating hol

Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir

✍ Jansson, Tove 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Sort Of Books 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

Tove Jansson's ?rst book for adults was a memoir, capturing afresh the enchantments and fears of her Helsinki childhood. Presented with images from her family archive, Sculptor's Daughter gives us a glimpse of the mysteries of winter ice, the bonhomie of balalaika parties, and the vastness of Christ

In the dream house: a memoir

✍ Machado, Carmen Maria 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Graywolf Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 133 KB 👁 2 views

**A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of _Her Body and Other Parties_** ** __** **__**_In the Dream House_ is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural repre