Mother Contry

Jeremy Harding is the author of Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa's Disputed Nations (1994) and The Uninvited, a report on clandestine migrants and asylum seekers in Western Europe, which won the Martha Gellhorn Award for journalism in 2001. His translations of Rimbaud's poetry were published by Penguin in 2004. He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. Klappentext When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he was adopted. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was - and the benign make-believe world she'd built for herself and her little boy. Mother Country by Jeremy Harding is a hugely moving and affecting literary memoir of adoption, secrets and the need to belong. Zusammenfassung When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother Maureen told him he was adopted. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was - and the benign make-believe world she'd built for herself and her little boy.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Harding, Harding Jeremy
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780571212941
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21294-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 195 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, True stories: general, Sociology: family & relationships, c 1950 to c 1959, Sociology: family and relationships, C 1945 To C 1960, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Adoption; Childhood; Deception; Secrets