by Stefanie Zweig · Lübbe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783404920464
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«Doch die Träume blieben in Afrika» is the novel by Stefanie Zweig, published by Lübbe in paperback (334 pages, in German).
Lawyer Paul Merkel leaves behind his family and his job in Germany to travel to Kenya, the country where he grew up, and search for his roots. Surrounded by African nature, far from his previous life, he again feels hopes and emotions he thought were lost, in a story of adventure and self-discovery.
The work originally appeared in 1998; this Lübbe paperback edition is from 2000 and belongs to the BLT collection (no. 92046).
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.
