Ann beaglehole (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. An examination on the accomodations and adjustments made by the Jewish people living in New Zealand, isolated as they are from larger centres of Jewish life. This study is largely based on 93 interviews conducted in the 1990s with current or ex-New Zealand Jews of widely differing backgrounds. Cove a little worn. 146 pages.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 200 pages. writing on inside coverNazi persecution, oppression behind the Iron Curtain, the struggle of strange rs in a strange land. This sombre history haunts the adults in Ann Beaglehole's novel Replacement Girl while their children expand into the bright, wide open la ndscape of their adopted country.Set in fifties to seventies Wellington, Replace ment Girl vividly brings the immigrant experience to life. The story moves back and forwards in time and between New Zealand and Budapest, as Eva grows up in a family struggling with the after-effects of earlier losses and adjustment to a n ew culture. Eva and her group of four friends, all immigrant children and 'diffe rent', have to make their own adjustments and choices to survive and thrive in 1 950s Wellington. They just want to leave the parents' past behind and live the c arefree life of their schoolmates.With sensitivity and humour, Ann Beaglehole ta kes the reader inside the immigrant experience so that we see mid-century New Ze aland through their eyes. Replacement Girl explores the tensions between generat ions and cultures. It is a story of love, relationships and cross-cultural marri age.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 209 pages. V slight crinkling to spine head and front cover near spine - clean, tight interior.Focuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions an d experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their p arents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them we re painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversit y. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very di fferent ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of inter views as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. tidy copyFocuses on the lives of the children of wartime immigrants, whose perceptions an d experiences of both the old and the new world were very different from their p arents'. At school, in the neighbourhood, or on the sportsfield, many of them we re painfully aware of being 'outsiders' in a society unused to cultural diversit y. Yet their need to belong was frequently complicated by loyalty to the very di fferent ideals and expectations of their parents. Based on a wide range of inter views as well as documentary evidence from second-generation refugees worldwide, this is an account of the lives of immigrant children growing up in the decades between the 1940s and the 1960s.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorAnn Beaglehole was born in Hungary and came to New Zealand with her parents in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Union. Her publications include A Small Price to Pay and Facing the Past (Allen and Un.

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