Kirjahaku

Diese fesselnde Abenteuergeschichteim 17ten Jahrhundert lasst einenWendepunkt der europaischen Geschichtelebendig werden.Es geht um langst vergangene ZeitenWissen und Interessen in Nordeuropanach dem 30jahrigen Krieg.In der Zeit von Bach, Handel und derneugegrundeten Englischen Royal Societywird ein deutscher Waisenknabe mitden UEbeltaten seines Vaters konfrontiert.In der Hoffnung, seine ererbte Schuldzu uberkommen, reist er in denneuentdeckten sudlichsten PunktSudafrikas und lernt in einersich verandernden Welt zu leben.

An account of seven mothers and their first daughters begins in Slovenia in 1880 with murder and suicide and near-asphyxiation of a new-born in the snow. This true story soon shifts to WW1 when the third of the 'seven maids' is still only a child. Eventually she will experience life under British Colonial rule on the Gold Coast (Ghana) and not much later the outbreak of WW2 while living in South Africa. Germans were enemy aliens in Commonwealth countries. Repatriation to Germany revealed the chaos of 1944/45, the SS, a Terror raid, invading Russian troops. There are unusual insights into the British occupation.DNA mingled from places as remote as Pomerania in Germany Austria(Slovenia) as well as the Lebanon and Wales ends up in three mothers and daughters who are completely British. This book explores 'another' Germany, but above all the gradual change to British-ness.The AuthorInge Borg's early life was split between South Africa and war-torn Germany. Later, studying at Cape Town University, she shocked her family by marrying a Lebanese, with whom she lived in Central Africa. It was the sixties; a time of social unrest and emerging African independence. A decade later she escaped to London to become a professional musician. With diplomas in violin and piano and a marriage to an English civil servant she began a new life experiencing the upheavals of independence in Zambia, Kenya and Nigeria; also life in Brazil, Canada and the fall of Communism while in Poland. Meeting the Great and the Good during the 70's and 80's, top artists, musicians and politicians, she eventually found a toe-hold in London, where she has lived with a new partner for the past twenty years.

This 17th century adventure brings to life a turning point in European history: forgotten times, knowledge, and concerns in Northern Europe after the Thirty- years war.An orphaned German boy, alive in the time of Bach, Handel and the newly founded Royal Society in England, must face facts about his own father's evil deeds. Hoping to overcome 'inherited' guilt, he travels to the newly discovered southern tip of Africa and learns to live in the changing world around him.

Secrecy, adultery, jealousy and guilt play their part in the story of Finuala, a Catholic girl who breaks all the rules.Played out against the backdrop of Apartheid South Africa, she covers her tracks successfully until her death, when she leaves behind a cache of letters, from which, to the amazement of her family, comes this true story.A) Female fulfilment, with a bit of luck, andB) getting all one needs: a story of adultery and jealousy.C) Breaking the rules but hedging ones bets.D) Mistakes, and almost getting away with them, then:E) the reckoning and counting the cost:F) Tarnished love, propped up as best one canG) along with an awful lot of Latin, Afrikaans and guilt:H) a thought -provoking read, right to the bitter end.