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Unrooted Childhoods
Faith Eidse
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Description for Unrooted Childhoods
Paperback. With their identities built piece by cultural piece, the authors of these stories recall the benefits and the pain of growing up without the chance to put down roots. They are unrooted children who grow up without having the sense of home and often without knowing who they are. Editor(s): Eidse, Faith; Sichel, Nina. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and first-time authors (many published here for the first time) make universal the story of growing up without the opportunity to ever feel rooted. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. The memoirs touch on both the benefits ... Read more
A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and first-time authors (many published here for the first time) make universal the story of growing up without the opportunity to ever feel rooted. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. The memoirs touch on both the benefits ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857883381
SKU
V9781857883381
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Ref
99-10
About Faith Eidse
Faith Eidse is an award-winning writer and author. The recipient of the Kingsbury Award and nominated for the Bellwether Prize, she grew up in Congo/Zaire, Canada, and the U.S. Nina Sichel was born in the U.S. and raised in Venezuela, is a writer, former editor and ESL teacher.
Reviews for Unrooted Childhoods
A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heart—and the heart’s quest and longing for that universal place called home.
Ken Wells, Front Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal Unrooted Childhoods offers exquisite illustration of the global nomad experience. Readers who lived the life will…see reflected the many dimensions of their own unrooted childhoods.
Barbara Schaetti, Ph.D., The ... Read more
Ken Wells, Front Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal Unrooted Childhoods offers exquisite illustration of the global nomad experience. Readers who lived the life will…see reflected the many dimensions of their own unrooted childhoods.
Barbara Schaetti, Ph.D., The ... Read more