by Stefanie Zweig · Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co KG · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453124295
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«Nirgendwo in Afrika» is the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig, published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in paperback (364 pages, in German).
The novel, autobiographical in basis, follows the Jewish Redlich family, who flee Oberschlesien in 1938 and settle on a lonely farm in Kenya. While Walter and Jettel Redlich long for Germany, their young daughter Regina falls in love with the landscape, the animals and the people of Africa, and finds a home there.
First installment of the «Nowhere in Africa» series by Stefanie Zweig, originally published in 1995.
For readers of historical fiction and narratives about Jewish exile during World War II.
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.
