Resultados para "Exiled" en Biografías y memorias

In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother?

Echoes of Exile reveals the seismic disruptions of twentieth-century European history through the intimate lens of one family's struggle to survive. Setting out to record the life of her mother, Ruth, Daniela Spenser unearthed personal facts and stories that additionally illuminate the shared traumas and experiences of millions of Czech, Polish, and German Jews who died in the Holocaust, as well as the stories of those who survived and lived under Communism and the Cold War.

Arno Geiger erzählt von seinem Vater, dem die Erinnerungen langsam abhanden kommen...

A memoir of danger, oppression, and international politics by a survivor of the Eritrean dictatorship. A view into a secretive country and the uneasy alliances of Africa, and a story of family resilience.

Tales from the road, told by full-time traveler Colin Wright.

1997年の刊行以来、若者のバイブルとして今も読み継がれる「エグザイルス~すべての旅は自分へとつながっている」(講談社)の著者ロバート・ハリス。 作家兼ラジオパーソナリティーとして活躍する著者が、既刊「エグザイルス」・「エグザイルス・ギャング」(東京書籍)・「人生の100のリスト」(講談社)を自ら監修し再構成。新たな書下ろし部分を加え、少年時代からJ-WaveでDJとしてデビューするまでの若き日々を、著者自身の声で語る自叙伝の登場です。 「自分の道を行く者」はみな「EXILE(放浪者)」である――。ヒッピー文化全盛期の1960年代後半、自分の可能性を求めて日本を脱出した若者がいた。ヨーロッパ・インド・中東・バリを巡る放浪の旅、セラピーを通じた自己との対話、オーストラリアでの書店経営と破産、ハリウッドスターとの映画製作、そして、激しく甘い恋愛の数々。仲間と出会い、いくつもの困難を乗り越えて、孤独な若者は大人になり、そして「自分」という居場所を発見する。「束縛されず、自分らしく生きていきたい」と願う全ての人々に捧げる、魂の巡礼の物語です。-プロローグ~旅人の可能性/第1章 横浜少年時代/第2章 放浪人生の幕は上がった/第3章 心の旅とヒッピー文化/第4章 内なる砂漠/第5章 魂は彷徨する/第6章 友はエグザイルの中にいた/第7章 新たな出発/第8章 野生の嵐/第9章...

Eine spannende Zeitreise ins Schicksalsjahr berühmter Frauen. Unda Hörner folgt den Spuren berühmter Frauen in zwölf lebendig erzählten Kapiteln durch das Jahr 1939: Hannah Arendt gelingt die Flucht nach New York, Helene Weigel zieht mit dem Brecht-Tross nach Schweden. Marlene Dietrich nimmt die amerikanische Staatsbürgerschaft an, Erika Mann veröffentlicht mit Bruder Klaus ein Who's who der deutschen Kultur im Exil.

The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile. It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation.

San Tran Croucher’s earliest memories are of fleeing ethnic attacks in her Vietnamese village, only to be later tortured in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge. Katya Cengel met San when San was 75-years-old and living in California, having miraculously survived the Cambodian genocide with her three daughters, Sithy, Sithea, and Jennifer. But San’s family’s troubles didn’t end after their resettlement in California

One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia is the story of one woman’s journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. Tania Romanov Amochaev and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. Their shared fate does not lead to mutual understanding.

As a college professor, Dr. Arik Greenberg had studied religion all his life, earning advanced academic degrees in his field. But none of this would sufficiently prepare him for his true spiritual journey. In The Exile, the first book of a trilogy, his challenge would be to rescue the family home from his mother’s deadly compulsive hoarding, and to protect his parents from their mental illnesses, borne out of a family legacy of abuse.

Three buried files. One label. A lifetime of punishment. Gregory Paul never expected forgotten LimeWire downloads to cost him everything. But when investigators found three buried files during an unrelated criminal investigation, the state did not see an accident, nuance, context, or the fact that no direct victim was ever tied to his case. It saw a monster.

Exile of the Heart is a deeply moving and lyrical memoir by journalist Rasheed Abou-Elsamh, chronicling a lifelong search for belonging across borders, languages, and faiths. Born into a diplomatic family, Rasheed grew up in Geneva and Brasília, suspended between cultures, cosmopolitan yet rootless, privileged yet unsure of where home truly was. His story unfolds through vivid, intimate vignettes that reveal the beauty and ache of living between worlds.

A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.

When the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gem once worn by Habsburg emperors and Medici princes vanished in the chaos of WWI only to improbably reappear a century later in Canada, the art world reeled. How did one of Europe’s most storied treasures cross the Atlantic? And why was it hidden away in a battered suitcase belonging to Empress Zita, the last Empress of Austria, Queen Consort of Hungary?

She Who Tastes, Knows is an expansive history of Durkhanai's homeland and a vivid, moving story about what it truly means to understand another's culture. Through stories of food, family, belonging and migration, the book traverses cultural boundaries, weaving a tapestry of dignity, empathy and understanding.

Monkey Morales blends James Bond, Rambo, and Scarface—a concoction of danger, politics, and family drama told in its entirety for the first time by authors Sean Oliver and Morales's son, Ricardo Morales, Jr.

When Jessa Crispin was 30, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding, a way of being in the world that demands neither constant struggle nor complete surrender.

في هذا المجلّد الرابع تُغطّي الشهادةُ وقائع الفترة من 1963 الى 1968 والكثير من أسرارها. هذه التغطية تشمل عقابيل الصراع البعثيّ الناصريّ الدامي ووقائع تفرّد حزب البعث...

يستمرّ في هذا المجلّد الثاني سردُ الشهادة الذي بدأ في المجلّد الأوّل . يصف هذا المجلّد جهود الأسر اللاجئة التي سَرّدتها النكبة وهبظت بأحوالها إلى ما دون الصفر ، في...