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Mangoes and Five O'Clock Tea
Memoirs of a Childhood in Singapore
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ISBN: 978-3-940280-03-9
Price: € 11,95
Language: English
248 pages
Mangoes and Five O'Clock Tea is the nostalgic, humorous and often moving account of how Nina Scheicher, at the young age of five, is unexpectedly uprooted from the familiar environment of her peaceful German hometown, and replanted in the bustling Asian metropolis of Singapore where her parents have taken on a six-year assignment to cover the Vietnam War.
Too young at the time to fully understand the impact of this geographical and emotional change, Nina is torn between the culture she grew up in - a culture still nurtured in her new home - and the English culture she experiences in completely foreign Asian surroundings.
With much love and detail, Nina offers us a glimpse into a time and place long gone - Singapore of the early seventies. In this wonderful collection of anecdotes those far-off childhood days suddenly come alive once again.
Sample Pages in PDF-Format (left-click to open or right-click to save)
The chapter "Visitors from Germany"
