Cecile Yazbek

Olive Trees Around My Table (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Olive trees around my table is the warm-hearted and, at times, heart-breaking story of Cecile Yazbek; a Lebanese girl growing up in the fifties and sixties under the shadow of the new apartheid system in South Africa. Cecile paints a colourful portrait of her first generation South African Lebanese family: its faults, idiosyncrasies, shameful secrets and strengths. A family aware of the injustices perpetrated in the society, aware enough to take action where possible yet simultaneously benefiting from the privilege, advantages and eventual wealth accorded it, by being part of the ruling elite population. This very human story vividly describes how racism, as it destroys lives around her, intrudes on Cecile's own life through the streams of powerless people seeking out her politically active father. Shattering events at home and brushes with the secret police at university force Cecile to the conclusion that she must leave this society. Cecile ultimately finds refuge in the undulating hills surrounding Australia's Byron Bay but just as she settles into her new life in Australia, her own migration experience begins to resonate with the isolation and alienation of her grandparents in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Suddenly, distant lives become close and Cecile knows she must find a way to put the ghosts of her family's past to rest if she is to find peace in her new life. Sifting through her memories and reacquainting herself with the hilarious, heroic and sometimes scandalous deeds of her extended family's past, Cecile finds harmony as she builds a new life for her children in Australia, her Lebanese-African childhood furnishing her memory and life with a rich and vibrant colour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cecile Yazbek
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780992489267
• Artikelnr.: 74370249

Autorenporträt

Cecile Yazbek was born into a Lebanese family in East London, South Africa. She studied social sciences at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.

She was a voluntary community worker in Cape Town and migrated to Australia with her young family in 1986. While working as a volunteer co-ordinator, she ran a cooking school and catering service.

Between 2000 and 2003, she published A Tribute to Garlic, Eggplant, Mezza, Beans and Peas 4 recipe booklets for her cooking students.

In 2007, Olive trees around my table Growing up Lebanese in the old South Africa, was published by East Street Publications, Adelaide, South Australia.

In 2011, Mezze to Milk tart From the Middle East to Africa in my vegetarian kitchen was published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide, South Australia.

In 2015, she published Voices on the Wind - a novel set among early Lebanese migrants to South Africa. Young Australian Eva journeys deep into the heart of another time to find her family and her history in a place where strangers made new lives together.

Marketing her books, Cecile appears at libraries and bookshops around Australia.