{"product_id":"9781504994774","title":"Before-Before","description":"These loosely connected short stories describe fragments of an expatriate German family’s life in British colonial Africa and a gradual transition to Britishness. A more-systematic memoir from the viewpoint of my mother’s family is contained in the earlier Seven Maids, about seven generations of mothers and their eldest daughters. The current collection begins almost a century ago with my father’s early days as a shipping agent on the Gold Coast (now Ghana), - this book’s cover is based on one of his own photographs from that time.   A later stage of my life in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) is enshrined in the general title Before-Before, an attractive idiom for “the olden days,” as was used by my Zambian cook, Andy.","brand":"AuthorHouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157080490224,"sku":"9781504994774","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781504994774_p0.jpg?v=1763712160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781504994774","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}