At Home in Exile : : A Memoir.
This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called 'my spiritual...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Author's Note to the 2021 Edition
- Foreword to the 2021 Edition
- Foreword and Acknowledgements
- 1. A Fountain in the Square
- 2. The Lost Homeland
- 3. Steinkirche
- 4. A Jewel in the Austrian Crown
- 5. Meeting the Relatives
- 6. For the Love of Iran
- 7. To the Bottom of the World
- 8. Das Lager
- 9. His Majesty's Guests
- 10. The Imaginary Homeland
- 11. Shadows and Flames
- 12. After the War
- 13. Stranded in Exile
- 14. Swimming for the Eucharist
- 15. Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam
- 16. Mirror Without Identity
- 17. The Wreck of the Deutschland
- 18. Intelligence Testing
- 19. A Banquet of Life
- 20. Marriage in Rome
- 21. Integration.