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As Lauris Edmond writes, du Fresne's work is a tapestry of the past and present, storying immigrant life. Flitting in and out of the past is shown to be one way of coming to terms with the present and of understanding the importance of home, as is evident in The Book of Ester and Frederique , both centering on the manifold, complex European cultural traditions that were often overlooked in settler countries. Another is to be an inquisitive spy on the land like the child narrator, Astrid Westergaard, in du Fresne's magnificent stories, many of them originally radio broadcasts, which depict life in a small Danish community in the Manawatu in the 1930's, often in a humorous and ironic manner. --

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 For was I Not Born Here
  • Author : Anne Holden Rønning
  • Release : 21 September 2024
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • ISBN : 9789042029576
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Total Page : 202 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 10,8 Mb

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