
Ahead of Time
The First Century of My Life
Elsie Slonim(Author)
Verlagshaus Hernals
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-3-902975-58-4 (ISBN)
Description
I was conceived during a world war and was born during
a catastrophic revolution. Somehow, I have managed to
survive the most dangerous and violent century of our
time so far. Not only this, but I have suffered a great
many upheavals in my way of life. I was driven out of the
country I loved, and later, was evacuated. I have lived
through two wars and have found myself in many difficult
situations.
My home has been in the heart of a military zone since
1974. I continue to live here now, surrounded by ghost
houses.
I am permitted to travel and return to my home, to this
place which is normally barred to civilians. I think that my
new political classification would probably be 'harmless
relic of long ago, whom no one wants to destroy'.
a catastrophic revolution. Somehow, I have managed to
survive the most dangerous and violent century of our
time so far. Not only this, but I have suffered a great
many upheavals in my way of life. I was driven out of the
country I loved, and later, was evacuated. I have lived
through two wars and have found myself in many difficult
situations.
My home has been in the heart of a military zone since
1974. I continue to live here now, surrounded by ghost
houses.
I am permitted to travel and return to my home, to this
place which is normally barred to civilians. I think that my
new political classification would probably be 'harmless
relic of long ago, whom no one wants to destroy'.
Reviews / Votes
As difficult and wonderful and wholly without exaggerationor propaganda the content, these facts of
the century of European marginalisation, persecution,
extinction, expulsion, war, and genocide are described
from the author's own experience. Remaining faithful to
herself and the plain truth, as in: This is how it happened
to me and in no other way, she writes in a wise and movingly
poetic manner, so experientially powerful that it is
truly unique in literature.
Peter Wawerzinek
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-Winner
More details
Edition
erste Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wien
Austria
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 13 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-902975-58-4 (9783902975584)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Elsie Slonim born in 1917 in the United States of a
Hungarian father and a Bosnian mother. She was the
younger of two daughters, and considers herself a relic
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She spent her childhood
in Baden by Vienna, and had to leave Austria when
the Nazis invaded. She married twice. Her second husband
was a Russian Jewish agronomist, whose family
had come as pioneers from Siberia to Palestine - now
Israel - in 1908. She and her husband lived in Cyprus
where he ran an exemplary citrus plantation which he
began in the early 1930s. They had a son and a daughter.
Elsie now lives alone with her beloved dachshund, Schatzi,
in the family home in north Nicosia, situated in a
Turkish military zone between north and south Cyprus.
Adaption
Leonie Brittain was educated at a theatre and ballet
school, and graduated in Fine Art as a mature student.
She has worked largely in academic organisations, and
her final job before relocating to Northern Cyprus in
2000 was at the medical research charity, The Wellcome
Trust. During her time in Cyprus, she has been working
as a freelance editor, editing newspaper and magazine
articles, academic papers and books.