Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany (repost)
Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany
PUBLISHER: Putnam Adult | ISBN 10: 0399144978 | 1999 | PDF | 339 pages | 1.5 Mb
PUBLISHER: Putnam Adult | ISBN 10: 0399144978 | 1999 | PDF | 339 pages | 1.5 Mb
Two emotionally weighted projects inform Kempe's thoughtful exploration of present-day Germany. In one, Kempe, editor and associate publisher of the Wall Street Journal Europe, travels throughout Germany searching for the present and future of the country poised to regain its position at the political center of Europe. In the other, he examines his own family's links to Germany's Nazi past. The two-track structure works. Kempe, who was raised in America by German-born parents, introduces us to a fascinating array of characters: ordinary Germans who play on his basketball team; leaders of both the secular and Islamist German-Turkish community; German-born citizens who display thinly veiled racism.