Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General

But Imelda soon finds that life doesn't always go according to plan. Everything is turned upside-down when Imelda moves to England and happens to meet a dashing, rakish Bengali man named Shu Bose. Shu, whose...

Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma -- a city that had previously been removed from the organization's list due to the dangers of operating there.

In this electrifying memoir, written...

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achievements, dubious dabblings, unavoidable foibles, relationships gone sour, and...

The Purewal family tree dates back hundreds of years, and the majority of the people in the village Shankar near the city of Jullundur in the state of Punjab, in India, bear the same last name. In Destiny, author Sukhjit S. Purewal shares his unique family saga beginning with his grandfather, Waryam Singh Purewal.

Born in 1891, Waryam was a subsistence farmer who traveled to the United States searching for a better life. He arrived in 1925 and stayed in California for twenty-eight years while his family remained in India. He initially worked as a farmhand and later owned a vineyard. At...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His mother murdered by a militia, his father somewhere in hiding, he was swept alone into the great wartime migration that scattered the Somali people throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the world.
This extraordinary book tells Asad s story. Tossed from one catastrophe to another, Asad s journey covers countries and continents, from the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Nairobi to the Ethiopian hinterland; and the promises...