Ernholder

ISBN: 0595218709

Author: Sadi, Hendrik

Condition: New

Product Description This is a seasonal book, starting with spring and returning to spring, during which, three boys, living in an orphanage home in southern Norway during the late 1940's, learn the value of work and play as they do chores on the farm that is part of the home and go to school. And when one of them is drawn to the character of an older, carefree, scheming boy who lives with his father outside the home, he, in more than one incident, finds himself duped by the boy, and schemes to get back at him. From the Author Ernholder is a fictional name for an area outside the town of Arendal, Norway during the 1940s. It comprises the orphanage home I lived in until I was ten and the nearby places I would go to, like the school I attended and the playground where I played soccer. It is also a fictional account about the time I spent in the home, going to school and doing chores, and the friendship and the excitement we orphans had with one another inside and outside the home. From the Inside Flap This is a seasonal book, starting with spring and returning to spring, during which, three boys, living in an orphanage home in southern Norway during the late 1940's, learn the value of work and play as they do chores on the farm that is part of the home and go to school. And when one of them is drawn to the character of an older, carefree, scheming boy who lives with his father outside the home, he, in more than one incident, finds himself duped by the boy, and schemes to get back at him. About the Author My name is Hendrik Sadi. I grew up in southern Norway in the 1940s and lived in Cairo, Egypt, Istanbul, Turkey and Beirut, Lebanon in that order between the ages of 10 to 13. I served in the US Coast Guard for 4 years when I was seventeen and attended Columbia University where I also worked as a research technician in the late 1960s. I have always loved reading fiction throughout my life and have been influenced a lot in my writing by William Faulkner and Knut Hamsun, though I did not start seriously writing until I was in my late thirties when I wrote my first novel, Kickapoo.I invite you to visit me at my website ernholder.com. Thank you.