Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over Tapa blanda - 1999
de Geraldine Brooks
An award-winning foreign correspondent embarks on a human treasure hunt to find her childhood pen friends.
Primera línea
It is a hot spring day and I am in the basement of my parents' house in Sydney, sorting through tea chests.
Descripción de contraportada
Born on Bland Street in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longs to discover the vivid places where history happens and culture comes from. She enlists pen pals who offer her a window on the hazards of adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. With the aid of their letters, Brooks turns her bedroom into the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, the barricades of Parisian student protests, the swampy fields of an embattled kibbutz. Twenty years later - and worlds away from her sheltered girlhood - Brooks is an award-winning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, reporting on wars and famines in the Middle East, Bosnia, and Africa. But she never forgets her earlier foreign correspondence. Traveling full circle to attend her dying father, Brooks stumbles on the old letters in her parents' basement. She embarks on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends, and to retrieve her own lost memories of the shy Sydney girl who wrote to them. One by one, she finds men and women whose lives have been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of a mysterious and tragic mental illness. It is only from the distance of foreign lands and against the background of alien lives that Brooks finally sees her homeplace clearly. This intimate, moving, and often humorous memoir of growing up Down Under speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.
Detalles
- Título Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
- Autor Geraldine Brooks
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición 1st Anchor Books
- Páginas 240
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación January 19, 1999
- ISBN 9780385483735 / 0385483732
- Peso 0.44 libras (0.20 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.94 x 5.46 x 0.65 pulgadas (20.17 x 13.87 x 1.65 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Australian
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- New York Times, 02/07/1999, Page 24
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1999, Page 80
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