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Mama Dear

Memoir of a Postwar Childhood in Europe

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  • 209 páginas
  • 8 horas de lectura

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Christine Haidegger has Irene, her protagonist, tell in her own words her story of living in World-War-II Europe and the aftermath. Irene, in acquiring language, also acquires her view of the strange circumstances around air-raid shelter, front, concentration camp. As her language grows up, so do her the end of the war, the arrival of the American soldiers, her mother's daily struggle for survival, the meanness of most villagers toward her mother, a born German in reborn Austria and a Protestant exposed to the bigotry of Roman Catholic institutions. -- A keen observer and an avid reader, Irene at age ten receives a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school. Separated from her beloved mother, hounded by never-ending rules and orders, pressured by her own desire to achieve, Irene, still a child, still wanting to understand, is slowly destroyed.

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Mama Dear, Christine Haidegger, Heidi J. Petermichl

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Publicado en
2002
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Título
Mama Dear
Subtítulo
Memoir of a Postwar Childhood in Europe
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Ariadne Press
Publicado en
2002
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
209
ISBN10
1572411031
ISBN13
9781572411036
Serie
Descripción
Christine Haidegger has Irene, her protagonist, tell in her own words her story of living in World-War-II Europe and the aftermath. Irene, in acquiring language, also acquires her view of the strange circumstances around air-raid shelter, front, concentration camp. As her language grows up, so do her the end of the war, the arrival of the American soldiers, her mother's daily struggle for survival, the meanness of most villagers toward her mother, a born German in reborn Austria and a Protestant exposed to the bigotry of Roman Catholic institutions. -- A keen observer and an avid reader, Irene at age ten receives a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school. Separated from her beloved mother, hounded by never-ending rules and orders, pressured by her own desire to achieve, Irene, still a child, still wanting to understand, is slowly destroyed.