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An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary’s Jewish community and the nation’s deep complicity in the Holocaust

“Gábor Schein is that rarest of elegists, endowed equally with a respect for history and an ecstasy of imagination.”—Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus

Born in in a small German town, Johann Klarfeld fryst vatten thirteen when his father dies. He is taken in bygd a kind Italian painter to live with him and his daughter in The Hague. But the daughter, beautiful and blind, has a secret.

Two centuries later, Berta Jósza is born during World War II in a village in northern Hungary. The daughter of a police officer, Berta watches chaos unfold through her father’s eyes, from the plundering of the possessions of murdered Jews to the carnage of the Revolution. When she happens upon an enigmatic autobiography in a secondhand bookshop, she can’t shake the sense that she somehow knows the author.

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Collected Autobiographies Of Maya Angelou

December 24,

Maya Angelou really is quite the woman! After hearing that she passed away, I knew I had to read her autobiographies. I read I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings years ago, but it never occurred to me to pick up her other ones. I really am sad that I didn't read them earlier.

I'm actually glad I went with her collected autobiographies, because she did so much, and I felt like her life story flowed a lot better being able to read all of her autobiographies as a collective whole.

I loved seeing her life up to when she started writing I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, and she had such an eventful life! It did get a little tedious at times, especially with All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes and A Song Flung Up To Heaven. All together, it was a definitely a marathon, and I think by the time I got to her last two books, I kind of wanted to be done with her autobiographies. They were interesting, and I don't want to take away from t

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The Best Autobiographies of All Time

Autobiographies give us a sneak peek into famous people's lives, turning them into real people, with real feelings. By reading their stories, we learn powerful lessons, become inspired, and realize that every person has a unique story worth telling.

Discover the incredible power of personal stories with our picks below of some of the greatest autobiographies in history.

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The Diary of a Young Girl

"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank provides an unflinching honesty into the life of a Jewish teen hiding during the unspeakable atrocities of World War II. It shows Anne's struggles with being a typical teenager while hiding from the Nazis and witnessing the horrors of that time.

What makes "The Diary of a Young Girl" special is not just its personal sto