by Stefanie Zweig · Editions du Rocher · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782268042909
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«Une enfance africaine» is Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel, published by Editions du Rocher in paperback (330 pages, in French).
In 1938, the Jewish lawyer Walter Redlich flees Nazi Germany and settles in Kenya, where he finds work on an isolated farm. Jettel, his wife, cannot adapt to the new life; Regina, his daughter, discovers the country and its language with Owuor, the family's Luo boy. Through the child's eyes, the novel portrays the exuberant Africa of the Redlichs' exile.
First part of the «Nowhere in Africa» series; translated from German by Jean-Marie Argelès. The original work was published in 1995 as «Nirgendwo in Afrika».
For readers of historical fiction and exile narratives, with an interest in World War II and East 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.
