Memories From Moscow To The Black Sea
Teffi is the pen name of Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya (Saint Petersburg, 1872 – Paris, 1952), a very popular writer during the Tsarist era. These memoirs were originally published in installments in a...
Literature - Biographical Novel
My Russia war or peace?
My Russia, although it refers to the history of Russia, can be read as an essay or a narrative, as it contains biographical data about the author himself. Mikhail explains his ideas about modern Russia to...
The Loves of Teresa of Ávila
In this historical novel, the author explores various aspects of Saint Teresa’s life, combining historical events with personal episodes to reveal her thoughts and legacy. Throughout the work, her different...
The House of Gazes
A deeply moving autobiographical novel about a young man grappling with alcoholism, broken family relationships, and existential despair. Struggling to find purpose, he takes a job as a cleaner in a...
Memoir of a Gulag Actress
Tamara Pétkévich (St. Petersburg, 1920-2017) lived peacefully until the age of seventeen, when the conviction of her father, a fervent Bolshevik, changed her family's life.
This memoir can be...
Conqueror of the Seas: The Story of Magellan
In 1518, Magellan convinced the King of Spain, Charles I, to provide him with a fleet to explore the sea separating Asia from America. He wanted to test the possibility of circumnavigating the Globe....
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Rebecca Donner begins the book with this sentence: "This is a work of nonfiction. It is the biography of Mildred Harnack who, as the subtitle says, is an American in the German resistance against Hitler....
Premier sang
Amélie Nothomb (1966), is a Belgian writer in French language, elected member of the Royal Academy of French language and literature of Belgium. Since 1993, she has published almost one novel per year. Her...
Full of life
Full of life is a brief —but incomplete— autobiography, which leaves many periods of the author's life to the free interpretation of the reader and also uses aspects said in passing in a...
The Smell of Apples
Mark Behr was born in Tanzania in 1963 and moved as a child to South Africa. His first novel is set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. It is a haunting story narrated by an 11...