Helen Van Slyke

Etwas von der Madchenschule Msimbazi Seit viekn Jahren gehen Madchen der Stadt Dar es Salaam und Umgebung zu den Schwestern in Msimbazi in die Schule. In den obern Klassen lernen sie auch kochen, backen, náhen, stricken usw. Das alles bringt Sr. M. Notkeris Grütter von Andwil unsern schwarzen...

1 January 1969 In January, New York takes on the sullen aspect of a brooding empress, her massive frame wrapped in stark steel gray, her cold glass façade brittle and hurtful to the touch. Icy ruts pockmark her face, with black beauty-spots of soot emphasizing its ugliness. Like some...

Chapter 1 Lam*a's first thought when she awakened in the darkness of that pre-dawn October morning was that in two days she'd celebrate fifty years of marriage to Sam Dal-ton. Fifty years. Half a century. Five decades with the same man. Perhaps she'd make a little speech about that at the...