NOWHERE IN AFRICA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL BY STEPHANIE ZWEIG (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)
Today I shall review another autobiographical novel....and what a wonderful novel it is! Written by Stephanie Zweig, it tells a tale of a German Jewish family surviving in Kenya during the Second World War. I would especially recommend it to German readers, as they can read it in the language it was written it. There is also an awarded movie version for those of you who aren't exactly bookworms. With the expectation of Slaughterhouse 5 that I read and reviewed fairly recently (also set in WW2), it's really been a while since I read an autobiographical novel and I was really up for it. It was one of the first books I've read this summer and now as the summer is slowly but surely coming to its end, it's time for me to review it. Nowhere in Africa is a novel about a Jewish family that escapes Nazi Germany and flies to Kenya to an uncertain future. It's an autobiographical novel, meaning that the author based it on her own experiences. It's beautifully written ...