When the Cherry Trees Bloosomed
The book presents several testimonies that share the common link of being related to the evangelizing work of Opus Dei in Japan. The testimonies are very diverse, allowing the book to offer a captivating...
Memoires and personal reflections
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell came to fight in Spain convinced that fascism was the great enemy at that historical moment (and convinced that what he was fighting in Spain was fascism). He recounts his experiences in a...
Departure(s)
Julian Barnes stops writing; he has turned eighty and has decided it is time to say goodbye. In this farewell book, he offers reflections that resemble involuntary autobiographical memories, akin to Proust’...
Home in the World
The author, an economist and philosopher and Nobel laureate, offers in this book more than just a memoir: a calm and reasoned defense of cultural pluralism, open identity, and the coexistence of traditions...
Signs of Survival
This work is a true memoir told from the perspective of a young girl who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust. Renee was ten years old when Nazi troops arrived in Czechoslovakia; her younger sister...
The Seven Storey Mountain
Since its publication in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain became a landmark of 20th-century spiritual literature, selling millions of copies worldwide and being translated into more than twenty languages....
The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
It is a short book in length but enormous in intellectual and moral density. It is not a conventional autobiography nor an exercise in nostalgia: it is the testimony of how a conscience is formed —and...
I Don’t Want to Be Inside Me Anymore
This book is a profound and original testimony: Birger Sellin, born in Berlin in 1973, has lived with severe autism from a very young age, does not speak, and has lived “inside” himself. Through the...
Youth
It is the third installment of Leo Tolstoy's trilogy. The protagonist is Nikolai or Nicolénke, during his youthful years, especially around his university studies and the intellectual, emotional, and social...
I Do (On Being Married) / I Don't (On Being Single)
The authors tell us many humorous and thought-provoking stories, raising important questions about marriage, family, and staying single. The book's physical design catches attention quickly: it is two books...