The German crocodile : a literary memoir / Ijoma Mangold ; translated from the German by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mangold, Ijoma, author.

Contributor:

Kemp, Ruth Ahmedzai., Translator.

Standardized Title:

Deutsche Krokodil. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mangold, Ijoma--Childhood and youth.

Mangold, Ijoma.

Multiracial people--Germany--Biography.

Multiracial people.

Mangold, Ijoma--Family.

Authors, Black--Germany--Biography.

Authors, Black.

Multiracial children--Germany--Biography.

Multiracial children.

Multiracial children--Germany--History--20th century.

Social classes--Germany--History.

Social classes.

Germany--Race relations.

Germany.

German literature--Translations into English.

German literature.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

322 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Surrey : DAS Editions, 2021.

Summary:

"Ijoma Mangold, today one of Germany's best literary critics remembers his youth in this compelling coming-of-age memoir of growing up different in 1970s Heidelberg, and his contrasting experiences during momentous visits in early adulthood to the USA and Nigeria. His own story is inextricably linked with that of his mother, a German from the eastern province of Silesia, forced to escape as a refugee in the expulsions from 1944, and to start afresh in utter poverty in West Germany. His Nigerian father came to Germany to train in paediatric surgery but returned before Ijoma was old enough to remember him. His reappearance on the scene forces a crash collision with an unknown culture, one he grew up suspicious of, and a new complex family history to come to terms with. "-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Joan Detz.

ISBN:

9781838221508

1838221506

OCLC:

1263810593