Bøger af Corri van de Stege

In Neshnafad, in Iran, Katie is writing a story about a Dutch girl called Anna, whilst all around her the country is slowly heading towards turmoil. She hides her notes secretively although her husband Mike knows that her dream is to become a full-time writer and that she is working on a novel set in the Netherlands. After their daughter is born and life in his home country descends into full blown revolution, Mike finds Katie's notebooks and speculates that she is writing a story about something that has happened to her, an event she has concealed from him throughout their time together. What is the truth and what is fiction? What will Mike do and how will Katie later explain to her daughter what happened and what she did? A thought provoking novel that illuminates the day to day lives of girls and women during the mid 20th century in a Calvinist dominated 'bible belt' of The Netherlands, and at the same time deals with subsequent issues of migration and displacement, and the despondency of being homeless and out of kilter with the world around.

What was it like to live in Isfahan as the foreign wife of an Iranian University professor in the run up to and during the revolution of 1979, when the Shah was overthrown and Khomeini created the Islamic Republic of Iran? Corri van de Stege a Dutch national lived, studied and worked in London for eight years, married her Iranian boyfriend and moved with him to Isfahan early in 1977. Initially suffering from homesickness for London she adapts and makes new friends amongst the community of 'foreign wives' and becomes a teacher at the British Council. But then she finds herself in the middle of a revolution in an alien country with her husband and baby son, without internet, social media or even a telephone in her house, and where television and radio broadcasts are censored so you never know what is true and what is gossip. The author evokes the stark contrast between the everyday life on the campus and the escalation of violence both across the country and in Isfahan, the town where she lives. She worries about the increasing demonstrations of hatred against foreigners, in particular Americans, and the English language. You feel the tension grow between friends and colleagues who will have to decide whether they can live in an Islamic Republic, their unease aggravated by increasing uncertainty about what will happen to the American hostages held in Tehran. HALF THE WORLD is a gripping and unique account by a foreigner living through the turbulence of revolution and the emergence of the Islamic Republic of Iran