by Stefanie Zweig · Editorial Luis Vives (Edelvives) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426351869
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«Corazón kikuyu» is the young adult novel by Stefanie Zweig, published by Editorial Luis Vives (Edelvives) in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
Vivian, a young German woman, moves with her father to a farm in Kenya shortly before the war, and falls in love with that corner of Africa. She does not understand her father's sadness, but with Jogona, the foreman's son, she will discover the Kikuyu culture and find in it a new way of understanding the world as they grow up together.
Volume number 43 of the Alandar collection. Original title: «Vivian und Ein Mund voll Erde». Translation by María Dolores Ábalos Vázquez.
For young readers looking for novels of friendship, family and adventure set in Africa.
Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. The film adaptation of the novel (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her books have sold more than seven million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages.
