| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
284 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Lauren -- Childhood -- War -- America -- Luke. |
| Summary |
"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"--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Kann, Wendy.
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Zimbabweans -- Connecticut -- Biography.
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Sisters -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
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White people -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
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Zimbabwe -- Biography.
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Connecticut -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0805079564 |
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9780805079562 |
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0312425724 sc |
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9780312425722 sc |
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