ISBN: 9781925603798 - always another country: a memoir of exile and home (2 Ergebnisse)

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition (Australia). Fine Condition. An excellent copy 312 pages. "the daughter of South African freedom fighters. Always Another Country is the story of a young girl's path to womanhood - a journey that took her from Africa to America and back again, then on to a new home in Australia. Frank, fierce and insightful, she reflects candidly on growing up an outsider, the naive, heady euphoria of returning at last to her parents' homeland - and her disillusionment with present-day South Africa and its new elites." [Book blurb].…

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Book is pre-owned - please see photos. In Always Another Country, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia, Kenya and Canada, her college years in the USA, and returning to South Africa in the 1990s. She reflects candidly on present-day South Africa, but this is a book about family, romance and motherhood; of childhood jealousies and adult passions, and what it means to be born into a life scored by history. Her memoir is a chronicle of a coming of age, for both a woman and a young democracy.…