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Peacekeeper's Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983. Told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl, Peacekeeper's Daughter parchutes the reader into the Lebanese Civil War, the Palestinian crisis, and the wave of terrorism--including the bombing of the American Embassy--that ravaged Beirut at the height of the siege. This novelistic memoir moves from Jerusalem to Tiberius, from the disputed No-Man's Land of the Golan Heights to Damascus, and on to Beirut by way of Tripoli, crossing borders that remain closed to this day. It's June, 1982. Twelve-year-old Tanya and her family are preparing to leave their home in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to move to Israel and Lebanon, where her father will serve a one-year posting with the United Nations. While they're packing up, Israel invades Lebanon. The President-elect of Lebanon is assassinated. Thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children are murdered at the Sabra-Shatila refugee camps in southern Beirut. The Middle East's relative peace explodes into waves of violence. It is in the midst of this maelstrom that the family arrives in Israel, and settles into an apartment. And one day Tanya and her brother walk to school; yet nothing is ordinary, nothing is familiar. The simple act of walking down the street is fraught with peril. Violence may come at them from any direction at any time. Peacekeeper's Daughter is a coming-of-age story, as well as an exploration of family dynamics, the shattering effects of violence and war--and the power of memory itself to reconcile us to our past selves, to the extraordinary places we have been and sights we have seen.… (plus d'informations)
When she was twelve years old, the author moved with her parents and fourteen-year-old brother to the Middle East. Her father was stationed in Israel/Palestine as a UN peacekeeper, serving on the Golan Heights. After a short period, the family moved to Beirut, Lebanon, which was in the midst of a civil war. This book tells of their time there, with the author attending school, trying to make friends and growing up in a foreign, dangerous world.
Ms. Bellehumeur-Allatt wrote this memoir as an adult, based on notebooks she kept as a young girl. She did an excellent job of letting her twelve-year-old voice shine through, not putting an adult's perspective -- or the perspective hindsight gives us -- on the events of the time. In this way, she gives us a seldom seen perspective of the life of a child of soldiers/peacekeepers; a perspective well worth reading. ( )
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The Uses of Sorrow // (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) // Someone I loved once gave me // a box of darkness. // It took me years to understand // that this, too, was a gift. --Mary Oliver
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For Brian, for always believing. Et pour Maman, qui n'a jamais cesse de croire.
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"Here," I say, "this is for you."
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For all those years, we've carried these memories inside us like grenades.
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Peacekeeper's Daughter is the astonishing story of a French-Canadian military family stationed in Israel and Lebanon in 1982-1983. Told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl, Peacekeeper's Daughter parchutes the reader into the Lebanese Civil War, the Palestinian crisis, and the wave of terrorism--including the bombing of the American Embassy--that ravaged Beirut at the height of the siege. This novelistic memoir moves from Jerusalem to Tiberius, from the disputed No-Man's Land of the Golan Heights to Damascus, and on to Beirut by way of Tripoli, crossing borders that remain closed to this day. It's June, 1982. Twelve-year-old Tanya and her family are preparing to leave their home in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, to move to Israel and Lebanon, where her father will serve a one-year posting with the United Nations. While they're packing up, Israel invades Lebanon. The President-elect of Lebanon is assassinated. Thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children are murdered at the Sabra-Shatila refugee camps in southern Beirut. The Middle East's relative peace explodes into waves of violence. It is in the midst of this maelstrom that the family arrives in Israel, and settles into an apartment. And one day Tanya and her brother walk to school; yet nothing is ordinary, nothing is familiar. The simple act of walking down the street is fraught with peril. Violence may come at them from any direction at any time. Peacekeeper's Daughter is a coming-of-age story, as well as an exploration of family dynamics, the shattering effects of violence and war--and the power of memory itself to reconcile us to our past selves, to the extraordinary places we have been and sights we have seen.
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Ms. Bellehumeur-Allatt wrote this memoir as an adult, based on notebooks she kept as a young girl. She did an excellent job of letting her twelve-year-old voice shine through, not putting an adult's perspective -- or the perspective hindsight gives us -- on the events of the time. In this way, she gives us a seldom seen perspective of the life of a child of soldiers/peacekeepers; a perspective well worth reading. (