10 Best nonfiction books like Chrystus z karabinem na ramieniu by Ryszard Kapuściński

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Chrystus z karabinem na ramieniu

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

4.12

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

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If you liked the nonfiction plot in Chrystus z karabinem na ramieniu by Ryszard Kapuściński , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Cover of The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith

2. The Book of Disquiet

By: Fernando Pessoa , Richard Zenith

4.41

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alt… read more

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"My past is everything I failed to be."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

"There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Cover of La verdad sobre el caso Savolta by Eduardo Mendoza

3. La verdad sobre el caso Savolta

By: Eduardo Mendoza

3.86

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

En un período de neutralidad política (Barcelona 1917-1919), una empresa fabricante de armas abocad… read more

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"Ésa es la misión de la idea: desencadenar los acontecimientos, transmutarse, y de ahí su grandeza, del campo etéreo del pensamiento incorporal al campo material; mover montañas, según frase de la Bib…"

-Eduardo Mendoza, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta

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4. Difficult Loves

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 656 pages, Paperback

Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and g… read more

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5. Patagonia Express

By: Luis Sepúlveda

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Los muchos miles de lectores de Luis Sepulveda ya conocen su gran pasion: viajar, deambular por el … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by None, Bela Shayevich

6. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

By: None , Bela Shayevich

4.29

Format: 192 pages,

From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by None, Larry Heinemann, Julia Whitby, Robin Whitby, Svetlana Alexievich

7. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

By: None , Larry Heinemann , Julia Whitby , Robin Whitby , Svetlana Alexievich

4.30

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"There’s not much humanity in a human being — that’s what war taught me."

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Jenže já tam nechal krev… Svou… I cizí… Dávali nám vyznamenání, která nenosíme…"

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Dreptul omului de a nu ucide. De a nu învața să ucidă. Neînscris în nicio constituție."

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Každá stránka Zinkových chlapců volá: lidé, nedopusťte, aby se tento krvavý zlý sen opakoval!"

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

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8. Poesía completa

By: Alejandra Pizarnik , Ana María Becciu

2.74

Format: None pages,

Publicamos la obra poetica completa de una de las escritoras argentinas mas emblematicas de la segu… read more

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9. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

By: Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Since its U.S. debut almost fifty years ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for histori… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Bolivians die with rotted lungs so that the world may consume cheap tin."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap labor."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuando el Estado se hace dueño de la principal riqueza de un país, corresponde preguntarse quién es el dueño del Estado."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

"Cuanto más codiciado por el mercado mundial, mayor es la desgracia que un producto trae consigo al pueblo latinoamericano que, con su sacrificio, lo crea."

-Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Cover of Paradyzja by Janusz A. Zajdel

10. Paradyzja

By: Janusz A. Zajdel

4.72

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

W zniewolonym swiecie mysl jest najwiekszym zagrozeniem. System wylapuje, interpretuje i odpowiedni… read more

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  • polish literature

11. La spiaggia

By: Cesare Pavese

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tra le amare baldorie paesane in Piemonte e l'oziosa vita di spiaggia in Liguria, prendono corpo, i… read more

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12. War with the Newts

By: Karel Čapek , Ewald Osers

4.17

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

Man discovers a species of giant, intelligent newts and learns to exploit them so successfully that… read more

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"V holandských koloniích žádní čerti nejsou; jsou-li nějací, tedy ve francouzských. kapitán J. van Toch"

-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts

"Without a sense of art, it is impossible ever to think of something new. We need to be poets if we are to keep the world moving."

-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts

"His life was now the life of a collector, and that gave it meaning. Evening after evening he would count and arrange his cuttings under the indulgent eyes of Mrs. Povondra who knew that every man is …"

-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts

"They all had a thousand good economic and political reasons why they couldn’t stop. I’m not a politician or a businessman; how am I supposed to persuade them about these things. What are we supposed …"

-Karel Čapek, War with the Newts

13. Limes inferior

By: Janusz A. Zajdel

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. Winter Journal

By: Paul Auster

3.82

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal… read more

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Cover of War's Unwomanly Face by None, Svetlana Alexievich

15. War's Unwomanly Face

By: None , Svetlana Alexievich

4.51

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"War kills time, precious human time."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."

-None, War's Unwomanly Face

16. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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17. Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)

By: Winston Groom

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, herculean, and surprisingly savvy hero of this remarkable comic ody… read more

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18. Premier sang

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.81

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

« Il ne faut pas sous-estimer la rage de survivre. » read more

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  • africa
Cover of La llamada: Un retrato by Leila Guerriero

19. La llamada: Un retrato

By: Leila Guerriero

4.49

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Literatura infantil

By: Alejandro Zambra

4.25

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Diario de paternidad, «carta al hijo» y ficción pura conviven en extraordinaria armonía a lo largo … read more

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"No recuerdo nuestro primer viaje solos, a mis tres o cuatro años, pero él lo ha contado tantas veces que su relato funciona casi como un recuerdo implantado."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La biología nos asegura un lugar en sus vidas, pero igual ansiamos que nos elijan como padres. Que alguna vez digan esta frase tan maravillosamente rara: 'Mi padre fue mi verdadero padre'."

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"Me enorgullece que la primera palabra pronunciada por mi hijo, hace cinco días, haya sido, contra toda tendencia estadística, la palabra papá. Ahora la dice a cada rato. Todavía le cuesta, eso sí, ar…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

"La lectura silenciosa es en cierto modo una conquista; quienes leemos en silencio y en soledad aprendemos, justamente, a estar solos, o mejor dicho reconquistamos una soledad menos agresiva, una sole…"

-Alejandro Zambra, Literatura infantil

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21. Bezmatek

By: Mira Marcinów

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

W brawurowej prozie Miry Marcinów wszystko jest dzikie i dziwne, a najdziwniejsza jest śmierć, któr… read more

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  • polish literature
  • reportage
  • poland
Cover of Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II by Svetlana Alexievich

22. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

By: Svetlana Alexievich

4.49

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"

-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II

Cover of Tres enigmas para la Organización by Eduardo Mendoza

23. Tres enigmas para la Organización

By: Eduardo Mendoza

3.37

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Barcelona, primavera de 2022. Los miembros de una organización gubernamental secreta se enfrentan a… read more

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24. I Remain in Darkness

By: Annie Ernaux

3.99

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?"

-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

"As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother."

-Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

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25. Solo quería bailar

By: Greta García

3.65

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Solo quería bailar narra en primera persona la historia de Pili, una bailarina sevillana que está e… read more

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"Yo creo que tenía que haber nacío en otra época y ser verduga. Con mi propia guillotina."

-Greta García, Solo quería bailar

"Desde que tengo memoria burocrática, solicitar cualquier cosa a un organismo público ha sío algo mu triste que implica esperar sentá en una silla mu dura y cero ergonómica hasta que la pelvis se carb…"

-Greta García, Solo quería bailar

Cover of La muerte viene estilando by Andrés  Montero

26. La muerte viene estilando

By: Andrés Montero

4.55

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Quedarse en pana en medio del campo chileno es también enredarse en su mitología. Abrir este libro … read more

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27. Służące do wszystkiego

By: Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Przejmujące losy "białych niewolnic", kobiet z najniższego szczebla hierarchii służby domowej. Tych… read more

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  • history
  • poland
  • nonfiction
  • reportage
  • polish literature
Cover of Tiempos recios by Mario Vargas Llosa

28. Tiempos recios

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

LA NUEVA NOVELA DE MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA Una historia de conspiraciones … read more

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29. Chrystus z karabinem na ramieniu

By: Ryszard Kapuściński

4.12

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

Wznowienie zbioru reportaży z Bliskiego Wschodu, Afryki i Ameryki Łacińskiej. Ich bohaterami są Pal… read more

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  • africa
  • history
  • travel
  • polish literature
  • poland
  • nonfiction
  • reportage
  • society
Cover of Material de construcción by Eider Rodríguez

30. Material de construcción

By: Eider Rodríguez

4.12

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

«Una poética implacable contra el dolor, una mirada al mundo que redefine el pasado, un modo de ent… read more

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31. Proletkult

By: Wu Ming

3.66

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Previous cover edition for ISBN 9788806236946 Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche, 19… read more

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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

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4.29

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4.30

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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano , Cedric Belfrage

4.31

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4.51

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Delphine de Vigan

3.83

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Paul Auster

3.78

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Irene Solà

3.91

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Alana S. Portero

4.55

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