Writers at Risk

Descrição
This list is meant as a help for the theme "Writers at risk", Reading Globally, 2nd quarter 2016. I will add the link to the thread after I create it.
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28,163 membros
512 resenhas
4.1
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12,872 membros
198 resenhas
4
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6,846 membros
251 resenhas
½ 4.3
6 Members
streamsong, charl08, FlorenceArt, ahef1963, rileyhuff, steller0707
Explicações
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the revolution in Iran, then exile to Europe.
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27,433 membros
569 resenhas
½ 4.3
4 Members
dara85, streamsong, Dilara86, ahef1963
Explicações
Dilara86: Holocaust memoirs
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4,843 membros
62 resenhas
½ 4.3
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3,717 membros
70 resenhas
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4 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M, rileyhuff
Explicações
ELiz_M: An autobiographical novel of the author's experience in a Japanese prison camp as a young boy during WWII.
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9,209 membros
119 resenhas
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3 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86, rileyhuff
Explicações
Dilara86: slavery
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1,042 membros
35 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: A novel depicting the brutal, oppressive life of a Egyptian village girl. It was inspired by the author's contact with an imprisoned woman. Almost a decade later, the author herself was imprisoned and terrorized for her ongoing feminist activism.
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656 membros
18 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: "one of the greatest treatments of flight and exile in modern German writing...." written during the author's own flight from the Nazis.
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392 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
kidzdoc, charl08, spiphany
Explicações
kidzdoc: This novel was written on toilet paper during the author's year long imprisonment.
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342 membros
10 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
thorold, spiphany, ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: The author fled the violence tearing Yugoslavia apart in 1993. This novel is an attempt "to capture the slow and constant sense of loss and displacement caused by exile..."
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221 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.3
3 Members
chlorine, thorold, Dilara86
Explicações
chlorine: Haitian writer condemning Papa Doc's dicatorship. He was so angry that the family bought all the copies they could find to try and save her.
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21,791 membros
337 resenhas
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2 Members
FlorenceArt, gypsysmom
Explicações
FlorenceArt: A memoir of McCourt's childhood in Ireland and escape to America.
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15,580 membros
312 resenhas
4.2
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10,077 membros
143 resenhas
½ 4.4
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
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8,657 membros
257 resenhas
½ 4.5
2 Members
streamsong, FlorenceArt
Explicações
FlorenceArt: A second-hand account of the life of Spiegelman's father, a Polish Jew, as he was persecuted and later sent to Auschwitz.
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6,051 membros
98 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
thorold, FlorenceArt
Explicações
thorold: Italian-Jewish chemist tries to make sense of his experience of Auschwitz
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3,962 membros
113 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
kidzdoc, chlorine
Explicações
chlorine: Black man living as a free man in the North of the US illegally sold into slavery in the south.
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3,522 membros
48 resenhas
4.1
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2,170 membros
59 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
dara85, streamsong
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1,331 membros
34 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
thorold, ELiz_M
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1,159 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
FlorenceArt, Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: slavery
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1,084 membros
43 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
thorold, spiphany
Explicações
thorold: Young people trying to stand up against Ceaucescu
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391 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.6
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247 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.3
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200 membros
6 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
chlorine, spiphany
Explicações
chlorine: Hungarian woman and her family flee the communist regime and emigrate to Switzerland.
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118 membros
5 resenhas
½ 4.6
2 Members
rebeccanyc, charl08
Explicações
rebeccanyc: Escaped from the Nazis only to be imprisoned for his work in the Free Hungary movement.
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7,921 membros
76 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
FlorenceArt
Explicações
FlorenceArt: I'm including this book, which is the sequel to Angela's Ashes, because it belongs to the theme more than the first, although I understand it's not as good (I haven't read it).
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6,059 membros
232 resenhas
4
Member
dara85
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4,220 membros
38 resenhas
3.9
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3,022 membros
34 resenhas
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
Explicações
FlorenceArt: A fictionalized account of the author's time in a Siberian prison camp.
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1,974 membros
42 resenhas
4
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Italian dissident sent into internal exile by Mussolini
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1,935 membros
59 resenhas
3.9
Member
dara85
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1,843 membros
65 resenhas
4.2
Member
chlorine
Explicações
chlorine: Woman living in Berlin at the end of WWII when Russians invaded. Had to endure multiple rapes and privations.
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1,583 membros
35 resenhas
4.2
Member
ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: A collection of short stories loosely based on the author's experiences in various concentration camps.
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1,519 membros
32 resenhas
4.2
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1,477 membros
30 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
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1,469 membros
20 resenhas
4.2
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1,360 membros
34 resenhas
3.8
Member
chlorine
Explicações
chlorine: Woman in Africa submitted to genital mutilations. Managed to emigrate to London. Was a UN special ambassador in the fight againts femage genital mutilations.
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1,161 membros
1 resenha
4.1
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Italian communist imprisoned under Mussolini, leading theoretician of European Marxism
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1,102 membros
18 resenhas
4.1
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Gay Cuban novelist's autobiography (imprisonment, exile, AIDS)
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979 membros
57 resenhas
4.1
Member
kidzdoc
Explicações
kidzdoc: This novel is about the persecution of the Romanian German population in Stalinist Russia, and its deportation to forced labor camps after World War II.
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944 membros
17 resenhas
4
Member
ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: from wiki: Behan eventually joined the IRA at sixteen, which led to his serving time in a borstal youth prison in the United Kingdom and he was also imprisoned in Republic of Ireland.
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794 membros
28 resenhas
3.8
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Not read, but looks relevant
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772 membros
18 resenhas
4
Member
chlorine
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758 membros
11 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany
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722 membros
16 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany
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636 membros
21 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
chlorine
Explicações
chlorine: Young woman in Afghanistan forced to live under Taliban's rule. Escaped to France and wrote this book.
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635 membros
11 resenhas
4.2
Member
dara85
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597 membros
5 resenhas
4.2
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: US anarchist & feminist exiled to Russia and then to France
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565 membros
3 resenhas
4.2
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Russian poet who wrote about her encounters with the Stalinist terror
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527 membros
5 resenhas
4.1
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spiphany
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513 membros
30 resenhas
½ 3.4
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Dilara86
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469 membros
6 resenhas
4
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448 membros
7 resenhas
½ 4.3
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rebeccanyc
Explicações
rebeccanyc: Born in exile, died in exile, jailed twice by the French and once by the Soviets.
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432 membros
13 resenhas
3.9
Member
rebeccanyc
Explicações
rebeccanyc: Written back and forth on sheets of paper when Fallada was imprisoned in a Nazi mental hospital for the criminally insane.
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385 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.5
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ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: The first black woman to escape from slavery in the British colonies (West Indies) and publish a record of her experience.
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283 membros
15 resenhas
3.8
Member
SassyLassy
Explicações
SassyLassy: Two writers living in exile
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279 membros
7 resenhas
4
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: The Mann family in exile
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237 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Czech dissident (later president) writes to his wife from prison
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212 membros
9 resenhas
½ 4.5
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211 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.7
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charl08
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199 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: On being exiled from a country that no longer exists (GDR) - also has a lot about other German political exiles in California, like the Manns
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194 membros
6 resenhas
3.2
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ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: The main character, like the author, was a victim of China's "anti-rightest movement" in the mid-1950s. The novel depicts the banal brutality of the political system.
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190 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.6
Member
FlorenceArt
Explicações
FlorenceArt: Memoir of the author's life as a Polish Jew persecuted both by the nazis and soviets.
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de Ovid
170 membros
2 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Writings of the poet Ovid after his banishment from Rome in 8 AD.
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167 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Scottish teenager who tried to assassinate Franco and spent time behind bars in Spain and in the UK
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149 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
Member
FlorenceArt
Explicações
FlorenceArt: Memoir of a child and her family trying to survive in occupied Hungary.
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144 membros
2 resenhas
½ 4.3
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spiphany
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135 membros
1 resenha
4.1
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spiphany
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126 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.3
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dara85
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118 membros
2 resenhas
4.2
Member
spiphany
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78 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.7
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kidzdoc
Explicações
kidzdoc: Dowlatabadi composed this novel internally while he was imprisoned in Iran, and wrote it shortly after his release.
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75 membros
19 resenhas
½ 4.4
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74 membros
1 resenha
3.8
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spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Andrei Sinyavsky (pseud. Abram Tertz) was tried and imprisoned for his Soviet-critical writing (The Trial Begins; On Socialist Realism). "A Voice from the Chorus" was based on his experiences while imprisoned.
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73 membros
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: British/Irish playwright persecuted because of his sexuality (this is a book about rather than by)
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69 membros
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Russian 19th century socialist exiled to London
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67 membros
1 resenha
½ 2.5
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ELiz_M
Explicações
ELiz_M: An account of the writer's arrest and trial, his prison dreams and fantasies.
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63 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.7
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55 membros
3.8
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SassyLassy
Explicações
SassyLassy: Written by Bukharin while he was in prison before his execution under Stalin
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53 membros
½ 3.5
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Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Memoirs of a feminist anarchist who was imprisoned and sent to a penal colony
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45 membros
3.8
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Two great German-Jewish poets exchange letters
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44 membros
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Heym fled Nazi Germany to the US, where he fought with the Americans in WWII. Left the US in the 1950s because of his communist politics, emigrated to East Germany, where he was initially welcomed, but later banned from publishing due to his criticism of the government.
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38 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.3
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Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Written by a former Islamic State hostage
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34 membros
2 resenhas
½ 4.3
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: White journalist jailed for his part in an anti-apartheid group.
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Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: The author was imprisoned together with Mandela
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26 membros
4
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Poet who was imprisoned by the regime in Malawi
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21 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.6
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: German-Jewish poet who wrote about life after the Holocaust
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15 membros
1 resenha
5
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13 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.3
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Left-wing political exiles from the Continent in 19th century London
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9 membros
4
Member
thorold
Explicações
thorold: Play by-and-about two South African political prisoners on Robben Island staging Antigone
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de Tian
7 membros
4
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7 membros
Member
spiphany
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spiphany: Biermann's expatriation by the East Germany government provoked protests by many prominent German writers.
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3 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.5
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thorold
Explicações
thorold: Dutch journalist stuck in revolutionary Russia
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6,113 membros
59 resenhas
3.9
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1,245 membros
50 resenhas
½ 3.5
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1,054 membros
20 resenhas
½ 4.3
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758 membros
15 resenhas
4.1
100
357 membros
13 resenhas
3.9