Martha Gellhorn

The Weather in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Martha Gellhorn’s three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsiders into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It makes an electric theme, which alternates between enchantment and rejection. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures in the great world to their parents’ hotel On the Mountain, where they are caught up in scandalous relationships. A heartbroken woman tries to escape the memory of her son’s death on a doomed holiday By the Sea. A lonely, awkward young Englishman, orphaned by bombs in London, disoriented by years as a prisoner-of-war, seeks a new life In the Highlands.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eland Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781906011888
• Artikelnr.: 44868202

Autorenporträt

Martha Gellhorn (1908?98) published five novels, fourteen novellas and two collections of short stories. She wanted to be remembered as a novelist, yet to most people she is remembered as an outstanding war correspondent. She covered almost every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the American invasion of Panama in1989. For a woman it was completely ground-breaking work, and she took it on with an absolute commitment to the truth. 'All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people,' she said, explaining her paramount interest in war's civilian victims, the unseen casualties. She was one of the great war correspondents, one of the great witnesses, of the twentieth century. She was a woman of strong opinions and incredible energy. Though she turned down reporting on the Bosnian war in her 80s, saying she wasn't nimble enough, she flew to Brazil at the age of eighty-seven to research and write an article about the murder of street children. Touchtyping although she could barely see, she was driven by a compassion for the powerless and a curiosity undimmed by age.