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Biography
At ShopiPersia we sell a great list of Biographies & Memoirs books of the greats of Iran or Persia to help you understand the Iranian culture, society and history of Persian.
Beethoven by Arthur Eaglefield Hull and Romain Rolland
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
€106.60
Darkness Visible Book by William Styron (Farsi)
The memoir Darkness Visible by William Styron is about his experience and struggle with depression. William suffered through many tough days where he felt worthless and hated himself. Along with these thoughts, he developed a dependence on other people where he was afraid of losing things or people close to him.
€28.00Escape from Camp 14 Book by Blaine Harden
Noted journalist Blaine Harden tells the saga of Shin Dong-hyuk, a boy who grew up in a North Korean labor camp for political dissidents. He was raised in deprivation, depravity and hopelessness, and endured punishments so relentless you will wonder, as you read, why he didn’t kill himself.
€32.24You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, and loss from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award winner. When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this stunning memoir. Featuring 78 poems, 78 essays and intimate family photographs, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine–growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents.
€29.51Dostoevsky Book by André Gide (Farsi Edition)
Gide’s brilliant study of the great Russian novelist. This is a fine portrait which throws light on both subject and author, and it has been long missed by admirers of either. Gide’s mind is at its sharpest, most penetrating and positive and this analysis reveals him at his critical best. It cannot be said that the public for this will be large, but it will be choice and enthusiastic.
€32.24A Promised Land Book by Barack Obama (Farsi)
A Promised Land is a memoir by Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. … Remaining focused on his political career, the presidential memoir documents Obama’s life from his early years through the events surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.
€63.05Speak Memory Book by Vladimir Nabokov (Farsi)
Speak, Memory is an autobiographical memoir by writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book includes individual essays published between 1936 and 1951 to create the first edition in 1951. Nabokov’s revised and extended edition appeared in 1966.
€30.36Khaterat-e Safarkhan by Ali Ashraf Darvishian
The book “Khaterat-e Safarkhan (Safar Khan Memories)” is the result of a conversation between “Ali Ashraf Darvishian” and “Safar Khan Ghahremani”. “Dervishian” had spent a long time with him in “Qasr”, “Evin” and “Joint Committee” prisons and he is familiar with him.
€34.84Leonardo da Vinci Book by Sigmund Freud (Farsi)
Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood is a 1910 essay by Sigmund Freud about Leonardo da Vinci. It consists of a psychoanalytic study of Leonardo’s life based on his paintings.
€30.55No One Writes to the Colonel Novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so that people would read No One Writes to the Colonel.
€28.60Living to Tell the Tale Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Living to Tell the Tale is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003.
€37.70Confessions Book by Jean Jacques Rousseau (Farsi)
The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from Saint Augustine’s Confessions.
€42.25