Kvinnedagen

After eight years living in Copenhagen, an English journalist, driven by a passion for languages and mountains, finally rebels. With little more than an assortment of Earl Grey teabags, Danish candles and a map, Georgina Howard abandons her all-too-cosy, cinnamon-scented lifestyle and drives south. The journey leads to wild and craggy landscapes in the Basque Pyrenees on the French/Spanish border, where place names are written in a bizarre, foreign tongue full of 'x's and 'z's.

Losing her heart to this beautiful land and her pride to the inscrutability of the language, Howard moves into an isolated barn in a mountain hamlet. While pagan festivals reverberate through the valleys, her Basque neighbours - farmers, shepherds, a gravedigger and a champion female lumberjack - observe her, bemused. Only when her daughter, Marion, is born - after an unsuccessful relationship with an eccentric Basque miller - do Howard's neighbours drop their reserve and welcome her into their homes.

Taking Marion's upbringing upon themselves, they fatten her up on spicy Basque sausages and black bean stews, teach her Basque nursery rhymes and train her to milk sheep. Meanwhile, Howard converts a barn into the headquarters of an international business providing walking, culture and language tours. Resigned to the ineptitude of their new neighbour, with patience and amusement, the locals tow her car out of ditches and teach her how to stack wood, catch mice, unblock septic tanks and drink wine from a leather gourd.

In the Footsteps of Smugglers follows the adventures of an outsider: a single mother, linguist, cosmopolitan nomad and cultural chameleon who paradoxically makes her home among an indigenous people deeply rooted in their land, with a language and culture dating back to Stone-Age times. Unwittingly, she repays their hospitality by luring anti-terrorist squads, blackmailers and spies into their midst as the dramatic past of the Basque Country proves to have unexpected and far-reaching consequences. An inspiring, humorous travel memoir, Bradt's In the Footsteps of Smugglers weaves behind-the-scenes vignettes of daily rural life and historical research to produce authentic insights on all things Basque, threaded with a rhapsody on the theme of identity.

• Forfatter: Georgina Howard
• Publisert: Jul. 2024
• Innbinding: Heftet
• Språk: Engelsk
• ISBN: 9781804692110

Fire år gammel flykter Lara Rashid sammen med familien sin fra irakisk Kurdistan i 1999 og etter en krevende tid på asylmottak i Nes begynner de et trygt liv på Nesodden. Men snart skal mørke skygger legge seg over det lykkelige rekkehuset de har skaffet seg.
Den 22.juli 2011 blir 18-år gamle Bano, familiens eldste datter drept på Utøya. Fanget i sorg får Lara for seg at hun må overta rollen til storesøsteren. Et valg som får store konsekvenser for hennes eget liv. Hvem er hun nå? Uten Bano? Samtidig er hun fanget i familiens bunnløse sorg. De trodde de hadde kommet til verdens fredeligste land. I stedet har det gode livet de skapte seg blitt en vond drøm både Lara og familien strever med å komme seg ut av.
Hold meg til jeg sovner er en gripende kurdisk familiehistorie, en fortelling om å finne seg selv i sorgen og en bit norgeshistorie vi aldri må glemme.

«En nødvendig bok om tap, identitet og 22. juli. Lara Rashids debut er velskrevet, rørende og svært reflektert. Lara Rashid gir hele beretningen om sitt tap 22. juli en menneskelig autoritet og en historisk dybde som jeg ikke har sett i andre beretninger fra eller refleksjoner rundt det som skjedde. Det mesterlige grepet her, det som virkelig løfter Rashids bok frem som noe helt eget, er at hun tar seg tid til å fortelle om foreldrene og hjemlandet sitt, før hun kommer til den skjebnesvangre dagen. Hold meg til jeg sovner er en nødvendig bok om vi skal komme oss videre, finne nye 'vi'.» Kjetil Røed, Vårt Land.

forfattere: Lara Rashid
Publisert år: 2021
Sider nr: 276

A powerful and intensely human insight into the civil war in Zimbabwe, focusing on a white farmer and his maid who find themselves on opposing sides. One bright morning Nigel Hough, one of the few remaining white farmers in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, received the news he was dreading - a crowd were at the gate demanding he surrender his home and land. To his horror, his family's much-loved nanny Aqui was at the head of the violent mob that then stole his homestead and imprisoned him in an outhouse By tracing the intertwined lives of Nigel and Aqui - rich and poor, white and black, master and maid - through intimate and moving interviews, Christina Lamb captures not just the source of a terrible conflict, but also her own conviction that there is still hope for one of Africa's most beautiful countries.

ISBN: 9780007219391

Forfattere: Christina Lamb
Publisert måned: Des
Publisert år: 2007
Utgave: 1.utg
Sider nr: 290