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Before-Before

Before-Before

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1504994760
ISBN13: 9781504994767
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Dec 18 2015
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
These loosely connected short stories describe fragments of an expatriate German family's life in British colonial Africa and a gradual transition to Britishness. A more-systematic memoir from the viewpoint of my mother's family is contained in the earlier Seven Maids, about seven generations of mothers and their eldest daughters. The current collection begins almost a century ago with my father's early days as a shipping agent on the Gold Coast (now Ghana), - this book's cover is based on one of his own photographs from that time. A later stage of my life in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) is enshrined in the general title Before-Before, an attractive idiom for the olden days, as was used by my Zambian cook, Andy.

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