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Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Regina immediately embraces the country - learning the local language and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's cook. As the war rages on the other side of the world, the family's relationships with their strange environment become increasingly complicated, as Jettel grows more self-assured but Walter is haunted by the life in Germany they left behind.

Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel

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Paperback / softback by Stefanie Zweig , Marlies Comjean

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    Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
    Publication Date: 30/07/2007
    ISBN13: 9780299199647, 978-0299199647
    ISBN10: 299199649

    Number of Pages: 304

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    Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel, and their five-year-old daughter Regina each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. Regina immediately embraces the country - learning the local language and finding a friend in Owuor, the farm's cook. As the war rages on the other side of the world, the family's relationships with their strange environment become increasingly complicated, as Jettel grows more self-assured but Walter is haunted by the life in Germany they left behind.

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