Hand Me Down World: A Novel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781608197330 (1608197336)
Publish date: October 16th 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
3 1/2 stars, rounded up. The story of an African woman searching for her baby who was stolen from her by the father and taken back to Germany. The story is being told in fragments by all of the various people who came in contact with her on her perilous journey as an illegal alien crossing Europe.I...
An unexpected total delight, original, moving and well written.
Hand Me Down World is the story of one woman's journey to find her child, as glimpsed by the people she meets along the way. "Her story is in the hands of others" as the author himself has put it. A truck driver, a chess player, an alpine guide, a poet-thief, a film researcher, a blind man - otherwi...
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