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Softcover ISBN:
9780999406946
About the Book
Paperback edition. Leaving Guanabara details the idyllic growing up years of a young French girl born in Brazil while Europe, Asia and Africa are being destroyed by the Second World War. Unknown to the narrator, her father's family is being murdered in France by that same war. It takes the death of her mother to waken the narrator to the fact that her mother's dying wish will also make the narrator and her sister lose their country, friends, languages, music, foods, the caretakers they love, and their continent. The narrator's life becomes one of displacements, and a quest to discover the genealogy her parents felt should be kept secret. Guanabara, the magnificent bay that defines Rio's geography becomes a metaphor for those who lose what is most precious.
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Features & Details
- Primary Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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Project Option: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm
# of Pages: 238 -
Isbn
- Softcover: 9780999406946
- Publish Date: May 29, 2019
- Language English
- Keywords Coming of Age, World War II, Brazil
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About the Creator
Of Brazilian-Chilean-French origins, fluent in four languages, and a traveler to the seven continents with her husband and children, Denise B. Dailey adapts easily to international subjects. Her ability to listen to people in multiple languages, and her passion to share their stories, inform and propel most of her writing, from short stories to travel journals, the most recent being 'Listening to Pakistan' (available on Amazon). Denise has a B.Sc. from McGill and an MFA from Columbia Universities. She has taught English as a Second Language at UN schools and in the School of General Studies at Columbia University.