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Ruus, Syr.
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Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
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Ruus, Syr.
Ruus, Syr -- Childhood and youth.
Ruus, Syr -- Family.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Refugees -- Estonia -- Biography.
Refugees -- Germany -- Biography.
Refugees -- Austria -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
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Krambambuli : a memoir / Syr Ruus.
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Ruus, Syr.
Inanna Memoir Series, 2018.
Call #:
818
.603
R982k
Subjects
Ruus, Syr -- Childhood and youth.
Ruus, Syr -- Family.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Refugees -- Estonia -- Biography.
Refugees -- Germany -- Biography.
Refugees -- Austria -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781771335737 (pbk.)
Description:
217 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Krambambuli is a memoir of the author's childhood experiences during and subsequent to World War II. She documents three stages of displacement due to war: escaping destruction in Estonia, living as a refugee in Germany and Austria, and beginning a new life as an immigrant first in the United States, and later in Canada. Krambambuli is not meant to be a historical account. Rather, it offers a child's perspective of the situations and people making up her early existence: her handsome and charming father, Isa, who sweeps into her life at intervals but provides no financial support; her disciplinarian mother, Ema, an optimist and extremely competent survivor who uses her creativity to make even a small rudimentary space attractive and homey; the hated Onu Gusti; and the many others who pass through this transitory time dominated by war. The book is a moving account of child's experience in a camp for displaced persons and of growing up as a displaced child and daughter of a single mother in America. Totsu, the child, is terrorized by the war and the disruption and fears losing her mother's love to a male lover and the possibility of being displaced by a half-sibling. She endures multiple new school and language situations and the added angst that being a displaced person can add to the life of a teenager. With such different personalities, she and her mother live their lives in both conflict, and in the knowledge that they are all each other has."--From publisher.
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