5 must-read nonfiction books like Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo by Beatriz Sarlo

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Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo

By: Beatriz Sarlo

3.82

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Para enriquecer la discusión Beatriz Sarlo interviene en el debate sobre la historia reciente y señ…

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1. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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2. Duck, Death and the Tulip

By: Wolf Erlbruch

4.47

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author and illustrator, Wolf Erlbruch, comes one of the world’s best children’s … read more

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"Ibland kunde döden läsa tankar. – När du är död är också dammen borta – åtminstone för dig. – Är du alldeles säker på det, frågade Anden förvånat. – Så säker som på någonting annat, sa Döden. – Det ä…"

-Wolf Erlbruch, Duck, Death and the Tulip

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3. Conjunto vacío

By: Verónica Gerber Bicecci

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

Conjunto vacio cuenta la historia de Veronica, hija de exiliados argentinos, que vive en la Ciudad … read more

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4. Letters to a Young Poet

By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell

4.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more

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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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5. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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6. Trilogia della città di K.

By: Ágota Kristóf , Armando Marchi , Giovanni Bogliolo , Virginia Ripa di Meana

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

<>. Rosetta Loy Il grande quaderno La prova La terza menzogna read more

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7. Uçucu Kül

By: Monika Maron , Zehra Aksu Yılmazer

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

"Monika Maron: Daktilo basindaki intikam tanricasi." Marcel Reich-Ranicki Kendi dusuncelerinin arka… read more

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8. On Collective Memory

By: Lewis A. Coser , None

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-194… read more

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9. Antígona González

By: Sara Uribe

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

"Esta es la busqueda de un cuerpo, de uno de tantos cuerpos perdidos en esta larga guerra en Mexico… read more

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10. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions

By: Valeria Luiselli

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American chil… read more

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11. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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12. Greek Lessons

By: Han Kang

3.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more

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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"

-Han Kang, Greek Lessons

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13. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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14. A Woman's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

4.23

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age… read more

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"Until I was twenty, I thought I was responsible for her growing old."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"With so much misery around, fighting for social advancement had lost all meaning."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

"Het beeld van haar wordt langzaam weer dat wat ik mij voorstel te hebben gehad van haar in mijn babytijd, een grote, blanke schaduw boven mij."

-Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

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15. Qui a tué mon père

By: Édouard Louis

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

« Est-ce qu’il est normal d’avoir honte d’aimer ? » Édouard Louis a publié deux livres, En finir… read more

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"September 2017 Emmanuel Macron condemns the “laziness"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"You were as much a victim of the violence you inflicted as of the violence you endured."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"What we call history is nothing but the story of the same emotions, the same joys, reproduced across bodies and time"

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

"Where is history? The history they taught at school was not your own. We were learning world history, and you were left out."

-Édouard Louis, Qui a tué mon père

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16. Una ballena es un país

By: Isabel Zapata

4.26

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Un lobo marsupial extinto es un fantasma. Una tortuga es un espíritu antiguo que se pasea por una i… read more

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Cover of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

17. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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18. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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19. Sofoco

By: Laura Ortiz Gómez

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

En Sofoco, los personajes respiran aires de anhelo y amenaza. Estos nueve cuentos recorren paisajes… read more

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20. Tiempo pasado: Cultura de la memoria y giro subjetivo

By: Beatriz Sarlo

3.82

Format: 167 pages, Paperback

Para enriquecer la discusión Beatriz Sarlo interviene en el debate sobre la historia reciente y señ… read more

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21. Los Trabajos de la Memoria

By: Elizabeth Jelin

4.28

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

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3.72

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4.22

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4.43

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