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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814309803321

Autore

Gaur Albertine

Titolo

Spring and no flowers : memories of an Austrian childhood / / Albertine Gaur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Portland, OR, : Intellect Books, 2006

ISBN

1-280-47739-3

9786610477395

1-84150-952-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

943.60522092

Soggetti

Child psychology

Austria Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title; Contents; Chapter One: The Time in the Garden; Chapter Two: Jesuits and Nazis; Chapter Three: 1945 - Endgame; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Albertine Gaur shares with the reader her childhood memories of the period just before, and during, the Second World War in Austria, her homeland. She relives this time of great social and political upheaval, depicting it through the eyes of a childhood as she passes from infancy to adolescence. It is a unique story, full of naìˆve poignancy, told with a poetic simplicity which helps us have a better understanding of how "events" were seen and interpreted by a young person, struggling with the many diverse problems of "growing up". Incidentally, the book gives us an insight into child psycholog