Nowhere in Africa An Autobiographical Novel Stefanie Zweig Translated by Marlies Comjean With a new preface Terrace Books “Based on Zweig’s personal experience as a German Jewish refugee child in Kenya during World War II, this novel inspired the Oscar Award winner for best foreign film. Nowhere in Africa, which inspired the excellent film of the same name, is Stefanie Zweig's frankly autobiographical novel about this bewildered, homesick group of refugees."—Rand Richards Cooper, New York Times Book Review. "A remarkable Holocaust memoir. Buy Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel by Stefanie Zweig, Marlies Comjean from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction/5(28).
Nowhere in Africa, an Autobiographical Novel, Stefanie Zweig. Desperate situations create good autobiographical novels. To meet those situations, an individual looks out for desperate remedies. To face worst situations, the best and the bravest within the human personality, surfaces. For the new and unexpected situations solutions are found. Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel Stefanie Zweig Snippet view - Stefanie Zweig was born in Leobschutz, Upper Silesia, in In she and her parents fled to Kenya, as a result of the Nazi persecution of Jews. Her father, a lawyer and notary public, worked as a manager on a farm and earned just enough to finance his. Editorial Reviews. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, among a host of other awards and nominations, Caroline Link's understated and evocative Nowhere in Africa offers an idiosyncratic perspective of the Holocaust. Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Stephanie Zweig, the film traces the life of a middle-class Jewish family as it relocates to Kenya to escape the.
Wolfgang Häfele. Stefanie Zweig (19 September – 25 April ) was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) (), 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. Stefanie Zweig (–), a novelist and journalist, was born to a Jewish family in Germany in , fled with her parents to rural Kenya in , and returned to Germany in Her autobiographical novels Nirgendwo in Afrika and Irgendwo in Deutschland have become European bestsellers. This autobiographical novel, written by Stefanie Zweig, is based upon her family's experience during WWII. Names have been changed and it is not clear to me how much of the book was real vs. fiction. Additionally, it was written many decades after Zweig and her family left Nairobi, and memories become warped over time; as if we are viewing them through muslin, we see the outlines and fill in the gaps.
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