The The Reed Warbler (Paperback)

Ian Wedde

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Te Herenga Waka University Press, Wellington, 2020

177656300X / 9781776563005

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Paperback. And how could she go on living between two worlds, one she knew and understood but could no longer be in, and another that she was in but was not permitted to know? Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. She finds refuge with her sister's Danish family in Sonderborg, then in Hamburg with a philanthropic businessman and, later, a radical journalist and his sister. In 1880 the worsening political situation forces this makeshift family into exile - and a new life in a small farming settlement in the Kaitieke valley in New Zealand. Accompanying Josephina on the journey is an ancient sewing sampler given to her by her grandmother. In its lovingly stitched pictures she finds a way of mapping the world she has come from - and that is traversed by the birds of her childhood, the Rohrsanger or reed warblers, which migrate yearly from the salt marshes near her home to 'somewhere nice and warm where the oranges grow'. Josephina's story is framed by the reunion of Frank and Beth, descendants of two of her three children by different fathers. It is Beth's discovery of the reason for the disappearance from the family story of Josephina's third child that unlocks memory and meaning from the intricately stitched story of the migrating reed warblers. The Reed Warbler is a beautiful and rich family saga that weaves together the lives of six generations, overseen, as Josephina's son Wolf would observe at a family reunion in 1915, by 'Ma with that glint in her eye'. 'Epic, engrossing and richly patterned, The Reed Warbler explores complex migrations: the way human lives move inexorably towards their futures while at the same time doubling back on their pasts. In tracing the story of Josephina and her family, Ian Wedde invites us to consider the threads that tether us to our own histories.' -Catherine Chidgey Pregnant after rape, seventeen-year-old Josephina Hansen is exiled from her family home in Kiel in the north of Germany. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Titre
The The Reed Warbler (Paperback)
Auteur
Ian Wedde
Éditeur
Te Herenga Waka University Press, Wellington
Année de publication
2020
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
177656300X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781776563005

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