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Klappentext Fifty-five authors of many different nationalities write about living with two worlds in one partnership and their love relationships which required crossing cultural frontiers. Their observations are reported with heartwarming candor. Inhaltsverzeichnis Beyond Frontiers (Warming Up; Does Anybody Speak Bimoba?; Kaleidoscopes; Belly Dancing and Football; Three Times an Angel); Thresholds (Bella Figura; A Tale of Two Weddings; The Sparkle; What's in a Kiss?; A Moving Experience; Marriage Made in Heaven; Love and Scrubbing Steps; Expected Response Syndrome); Children (Penny in Samoa; Chop Suey; Mothers Know Best, Or Do they?; Adopting New Cultures; Beauty or Beast?; My Little Polyglots; Cultivating Clarissa; Samir Bewteen Two Worlds); Food (Goulash; Ode to the Potato; Of Bread, Rice and Spice); Language (Words as Bridges, Words as Snares; Saying No; Tangled Lines of Communication; Words of Love; At Home in Two Language); Coping with Differences (Touching Experiences; Christening in a Kimono; Hail Britannia; Squeezing In; En Vogue); Family Influences (Life with the Family; Maryam and Me; Castaways and Breaking Conventions; Daughterly Love; How Far is it to Zurich?; Return to the Ganges); Coping with Crisis (Caress; Dream 1002; Fences; Nights of Wine and Roses; The Door; Common Ground; Somebody Elsea's Life, Dilemma); Identities (Banana Peel Bridges; Mistaken Identity, My Family and Other Foreigners; Some Roots Start in Pockets; Black and Gold, German Love); Advice from the Clever and Wise (Heavy Matters; Two Stones; Oral Affairs; Whose Rules to Live and Love By; Thy Country a Tis of Me): Afterword; Acknowledgements; List of Authors
