Omaelämäkerrat: kirjallisuus

Koskettava tositarina poikkeuksellisesta lapsuudestaMillaisia elinikäisiä jälkiä lapsuuden traumat ja pitkäaikaissairaus jättävät - ja miten rohjeta uskoa olevansa rakkauden …

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.

In Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet …

"Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras." —Andrew Martin, The New …

Jorge Luis Borgesin (1899-1986) Omaelämäkerta on kirjailijaelämäkertojen suomennosten merkkiteoksia. Borgesin tyyli on mutkaton, älyllinen ja täynnä hänelle ominaista hienovaraista …

**WINNER OF THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**A beautifully …

Gunnar Ekelöf 100 årDen femtonde september 1907 föddes Gunnar Ekelöf en av nittonhundratalets stora poeter i Sverige, om inte rentav den störste.   Vi uppmärksammar jubiléet med …

" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than …

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an …

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the …