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  • Paperback: 318 pages
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; 1 edition (29 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857883381
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857883381
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 286,136 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and first-time authors (many published here for the first time) make universal the story of growing up without the opportunity to ever feel rooted. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. The memoirs touch on both the benefits and the difficulties of growing up in the ever changing landscape of diplomatic, military and other expatriate communities.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-opening accounts of global childhoods, 15 Jan 2004
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This book can be read on many levels. On a basic level, it can be read merely as a collection of entertaining stories of the childhoods of various people. On deeper level, it can be seen as a fasinating study into how the cultures in which we grow up shape our adult lives; and how children with no particular affiliation towards any country forge their own identities.
In this age where travel has never been easier and people are increasingly mobile, this book poses the question - what does nationality actually mean, and what happens when that is taken away? An important book for our time.
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