Bitter Eden: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (514 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250063760 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bitter Eden was first published when he was eighty years old. Tatamkhulu Afrika was born in Egypt in 1920 of an Arab father and a Turkish mother. At the age of seventeen he published a novel in Great Britain entitled Broken Earth, but did not write again for fifty years. He died in December 2002.. He was brought to South Africa in 1923, orphaned, and raised by Christian foster parents. He serve
From Booklist As Bitter Eden opens, Sergeant Tom Smith and his fellow soldiers are being captured by the Italian army. Afrika explores these relationships in depth, creating a remarkably honest and moving book. --Carol Gladstein . For Tom and his fellow inmates Douglas and Danny, squalor, boredom, pettiness, fear, and hunger fill their days. Originally published shortly after the author’s death in 2002 and based on his experiences as a POW in WWII, Bitter Eden is a beautifully crafted, absorbing read, a careful examination of human relationships, and a rare glimpse into the complexities of life in wartime. Told entirely from his perspective, the novel focuses on the physical and emotional lif
NAMED A STONEWALL HONOR BOOK OF LITERATURE BY THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONONE OF NPR'S GREAT READS OF 2014 A 2015 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A modern classic being introduced to the United States for the first time, Tatamkhulu Afrika's autobiographical novel illuminating the profound and incomparable bonds forged between prisoners of war.Bitter Eden is based on Tatamkhulu Afrika's own capture in North Africa and his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II in Italy and Germany. The complex rituals of camp life and the strange loyalties and deep bonds among the men are heartbreakingly depicted. This frank and beautifully wrought novel deals with three men who must negotiate the emotions that are brought to the surface by the physical closeness of survival in the male-only camps. Bitter Eden is a tender, bitter, deeply felt book of lives inexorably changed, and of a war whose ending does not bring peace.
So amazing. Amazon Customer Heart broken, but lovely.. Defining love A letter and a mysterious package arrive for Thomas Smith, an aging, long-married man living in South Africa. The letter forces unwanted memories to surface, memories of Tom's capture and imprisonment, first by Italians and then by Germans, while serving as an intelligence officer in the North Africa Campaign during World War II. That brief in. Powerful I am drawn to stories such as this which take place in a time when men couldn't openly display love and often didn't even recognize their feelings as love [such a thing never having been made known to them as possible]. Such is the story of Tom and Danny who meet in an Italian POW camp during WWII and spend the next several years as "mates", t