Drifts
(Sprache: Englisch)
Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family has lived for more than half a century. As a child she realises that she is not from SaudiArabia and, like all ex-pats, she would one day have to leave. Through various departures and...
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Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family has lived for more than half a century. As a child she realises that she is not from SaudiArabia and, like all ex-pats, she would one day have to leave. Through various departures and returns - a year at boarding school in New England, university in London, a small town in Texas where there are more cows than people, back to work in Bahrain - the years of difficulty, isolation and severe anxiety take their toll. Finally, at thirty-seven years old she receives the life-changing news that she is autistic. In Drifts, Burge probes her unfurling awareness by exploring the two ruptured strands of her being: what it means to grow up at the interstices of different cultures, and what it is to experience an undiagnosed condition and late diagnosis of autism. From the cosmopolitan heritage of Muharraq's Pearling Trail to the jebels of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, she charts a new path through the stories of the Arabian Gulf as well as those of autism.
The result is a work of dazzling insight, sensitivity and awareness that explodes our idea of memoir and place.
Autoren-Porträt von Natasha Burge
Natasha Burge is a Saudi-born American writer whose family has lived in the Arabian Gulf for more than half a century. Her work has been published around the world, anthologised, nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and translated into Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. Her areas of interest include psychogeography, autism poetics, mythic fiction, transcultural literature, and discovering the perfect karak chai.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Natasha Burge
- 2023, 159 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 21,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
- ISBN-10: 1804440108
- ISBN-13: 9781804440100
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.03.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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