I will fourth
Homage to Catalonia.
With my two remaining nominations, I throw in two titles more to remind myself that I want to read them than for a real chance, as it is really late, but here I go, just in case
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How we survived communism and even laughed , by
Slavenka Drakulić, is a recollection of life under communism in what was at the time Yugoslavia. From goodreads:
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Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.
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Lastly, I will nominate
Memoirs of a dutiful daughter, by
Simone de Beauvoirs, hte french philosopher and novelist. Blurb from Goodreads:
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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time
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