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"In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land."
"Ce livre revient sur un épisode-clé de l'enfance de l'auteure : la Première Guerre mondiale. Son père, Alfred Taylor, blessé à la jambe par des éclats d'obus, fut amputé et obligé de porter une jambe de bois. Sa mère, Emily McVeagh, soigna pendant quatre ans, en tant qu'infirmière, les blessés de guerre. Seule la littérature pouvait lui permettre de se défaire d'un héritage aussi lourd."
"In a personal meditation on family, war, and memory, the author re-imagines the lives of her parents if World War I had not happened, and also relates the facts of their lives in the wake of the war's devastation."
"En la primera parte del libro Lessing inventa para sus padres una vida donde no hubiera existido la guerra mundial, y en la segunda parte cuenta cómo fue su vida en realidad, primero en Inglaterra y luego en África, intercalando en las páginas del texto unas viejas fotos familiares."
"Deels fictie, deels autobiografisch portret van de ouders van de Britse schrijfster (1919- )."
"Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing provides a fictional account of her parent's experiences during World War I, when her father was a farmer turned soldier who lost a leg, and her mother was a nurse stationed at Royal Free Hospital; and also describes their relationship after the close of the Great War, based on the real-life memories of the author."@en
"In this extraordinary book, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both fictional and factual. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, causing the loss of his leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the first half of this book, Doris Lessing imagines the lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war at all. This is followed by a piercing examination of their lives as they actually came to be in the shadow of that war and their move to Rhodesia."
"Examines the lives of Lessing's parents, both irrevocably damaged by World War I. The fictional first half imagines happier lives had there been no war; the biographical second half presents the lives they actually led."
""I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness." In this extraordinary book, the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier life her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war, a story that begins with them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationaship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, the family's move to Africa and the impact of her parent's marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land."

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"Fiction"@tr
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Roman biographique"
"Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
"Romans (teksten)"
"Erzählende Literatur"
"Autobiographie"
"Roman anglais"
"Biography"@tr
"Biography"
"Biography"@en
"Biographical fiction"
"Large type books"
"Large type books"@en
"History"
"Roman historique"
"Herinneringen (vorm)"
"Electronic books"@en
"Electronic books"
"Powieść autobiograficzna angielska"@pl
"Belletristische Darstellung"

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"Alfred i Emili"
"Alfrid wa Imīlī : riwāya"
"[My father and mother] = Alfred & Emily"
"Alfred und Emily"
"Alfred y Emily"
"Alfred y Emily"@es
"Alfred and Emily"
"Alfred and Emily"@en
"Alfred i Emily"@ca
"Alfred i Emily"@pl
"Alfred i Emily"
"Alfred et Emily roman"
"Alfred & Emily"
"Alfred e Emily"@it
"Alfred e Emily"
"Alfred e Emily"@pt
"Alfred und Emily Roman"
"ألفرد و اميلي : رواية"
"Alfred ile Emily : roman"@tr
"ʼAlfrid wa Imīlī : riwāyah"
"Alfred en Emily"
"Alfred et Emily"
"Alfred und Emily : Roman"

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