Casting With a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters And Africa - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0805079564 ISBN 13: 9780805079562

Riassunto

In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister’s tragic death prompts a woman’s unbidden journey into her turbulent African past

A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—behind her. Then one Sunday morning came a terrible phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a lonely road in Zambia. Suddenly unable to ignore her longing for her homeland, she decides she must confront the ghosts of her past.

Wendy Kann’s is a personal journey, set against a backdrop as exotic as it is desolate. From a privileged colonial childhood of mansions and servants, her story moves to a young adulthood marked by her father’s death, her mother’s insanity, and the viciousness of a bloody civil war. Through unlikely love she finds herself in the incongruous sophistication of Manhattan; three children bring the security of suburban America, until the heartbreaking vulnerability of the small child her sister left behind in Africa compels her to return to a continent she hardly recognizes.

With honesty and compassion, Kann pieces together her sister’s life, explores the heartbreak of loss and belonging, and finally discovers the true meaning of home.

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Wendy Kann lives in Connecticut with her husband and children. This is her first book.

Wendy Kann lives in Connecticut with her husband and children. This is her first book.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Data di pubblicazione: 1709
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0805079564
• ISBN 13: 9780805079562
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 284
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia