Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

ISBN-13: 9780747596707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Christina Thompson

Opis

A book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounter

Recenzje

'A highly unusual blend of personal memoir, travel writing and anthropology' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times

O autorze

Christina Thompson was born in Switzerland in 1959 and grew up in a suburb of Boston. In 1984 she received an ITT International Fellowship from the Institute of International Education in New York. She also received a fellowship for graduate study at the Univesity of Melbourne, where she later did a PhD. She is author of numerous essays, stories and reviews, and her work has appeared in literary and scholarly journals. In 1998, Christina and her family returned to the United States after a decade in Australia. She is currently editor of the Harvard Review.