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Survival in Paradise
Manfred Wolf
其他書名
Sketches from a Refugee Life in Curacao
出版iUniverse, 2014-04-10
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN14917226309781491722633
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FPR1AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Survival in Paradise: Sketches From a Refugee Life in Curaao is a funny, moving memoir of growing up in the Caribbean West Indies, in the aftermath of World War Two. The narrative covers Manfreds childhood and adolescent years in Suriname and Curacao between 1942 to 1951, focusing on his development between the ages of eight and seventeen. In doing so, it renders through specific moments the long, sad shadow cast by the war over the refugees. In Curacao, the Wolf familys life was shaped by three occasionally clashing cultures: colonial Dutch, native Curaaoan, and, of course, the refugee culture itself. The family found itself surrounded by a joyous tropical culture, one to which, as a boy, Manfred yearned to belong. Meanwhile, his parents, each in their own way, brooded about the horrors so recently experienced and never fully left behind.