Elämän viidakossa

Dschungelkind #3

by Sabine Kuegler

Knjiga Plenilka in plen je ganljiva pripoved o selitvi Sabine v Evropo, v džunglo zahodne civilizacije, kjer bi se ob trku kultur skoraj zlomila. Ljudje so Sabine neštetokrat spraševali o tem obdobju, vendar se je zavila v molk. Preveč jo je bolel spomin na temna leta razočaranj, ko se je odvračala od sveta, v katerem naj bi živela. Toda ta leta so jo okrepila za življenje med kameno dobo in sodobnostjo, v tem času se je naučila, kako preživeti v džungli in drugod.
Plenilka in plen je iskrena izpoved ženske, ki išče svoj prostor v svetu.


Sabine Kügler se je rodila leta 1972 v Nepalu. Ko je imela pet let je delo njene starše, nemške jezikoslovce in misijonarje, vodilo v džunglo Zahodne Papue. Sabine se je z družino vključila v divje, ljudožersko pleme Faju in postala ena od njih. Prevzela je njihove navade, vrednote in njihov pogled na svet. Pri sedemnajstih se je vrnila v Evropo, opravila maturo v švicarskem internatu in se trdo bojevala, da bi se na Zahodu postavila na noge. Danes s svojimi štirimi otroki živi blizu Münchna. Je družbeno aktivna in se zavzema za pravice plemen.


Pri založbi Učila International sta že izšli knjigi: Otrok džungle in Klic džungle.

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir, German Literature

199 pages

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

uncommon childhood: from age 7 to age 17 she lived with her parents and two siblings in the jungle of West Papua, with the remote tribe of the Fayu.[1]

Her parents were the first whites to live with the newly discovered tribe of about 400 people, who still hunted with bow and arrow, ate snakes, insects and worms, and practiced inter-tribal warfare and revenge killings. The Kueglers were there to study the tribe's language and to evangelize, under assignment of the Wycliffe Bible Translators.[2] Her mother, trained as a nurse, performed midwife duties with the tribe. At age 17, Sabine Kuegler left and attended a Swiss boarding school. She has been married and divorced twice and has four children, two from each husband. Her parents have returned to Germany.

Her best-selling first book Dschungelkind (Jungle Child) (Droemer Knaur, München 2005, ISBN 3-426-27361-6) describes her experiences in the two different cultures and her occasional nostalgia for the simpler, slower life of the tribe. An English translation (Jungle Child, ISBN 1-84408-261-X) appeared in the same year. Her second book, Ruf des Dschungels (Call of the Jungle) (Droemer Knaur, München 2006, ISBN 3-426-27393-4) describes a visit to the Fayu that she undertook in late 2005.

The German group Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker criticized her first book, claiming that it romanticized the life of the Fayu and pointing out that it failed to mention the human rights violations of the Indonesian government against Papua peoples, and their endangerment by clearing of the jungle and industrial projects.[2] In her second book and in public appearances, Sabine Kuegler has since emphasized these political issues and has aimed to be spokesperson for the threatened Fayu

Reviews

[Huguette]

I have great respect for who she is today, after what she has been trugh!

[Hannie]

Hoewel er in dit boek zeker een aantal dieptepunten uit Sabines leven aan bod komen, is het niet een negatief boek. Al is ze soms wel kritisch over de Westerse wereld. Maar later geeft ze wel aan waarom ze er toen zo tegenaan keek. Dit boek geeft antwoord op veel vragen die de andere boeken opriepen. Want daarin komt haar leven in onder andere Duitsland alleen zijdelings aan bod. Als je de andere delen hebt gelezen, dan zou ik dit boek zeker aanraden. De drie boeken vormen samen een mooi geheel.

[Ivanka]

Indrukwekkend waargebeurd verhaal. Geschreven door een krachtige 36jarige die opgroeit in de jungle en vervolgens een weg/plek probeert te vinden in de westerse cultuur.

[Helena]

Makkelijk weg te lezen boek. Een interessant levensverhaal van de schrijfster. Wel een naar mijn optiek wat te veel geromaniseerd verhaal.

[Anna]

Ein Buch mit großer Sogwirkung. Sabine Kuegler ist wahrlich eine wahnsinnig starke Frau!

[Kathrin]

I loved reading more about Sabine's life and how her childhood in the jungle of West-Papua effected her in her young adult years when she returned to live in Germany and Switzerland. I cannot begin to imagine the hardships she has gone through and think of her as a very strong woman - especially for opening up and telling the world so honestly about her struggles in the western world.

If only somebody would invite her for the yearly Emirates Festival of Literature, I would be the first to buy tickets. Would love to meet her one day!!!

[Igor]

A striking story in a short book. Very easy to relate to her pain ... . Inspiring as our society is foreign to almost everybody in some aspect e.g. freedom vs work pressure. While I liked the book, I'm inclined to appreciate that openness, I felt it stuck a bit at narrating the facts.

[Silvereyedlynx]

Todella silmät avaava kertomus. Hämmästyttävää tajuta kuinka vaikeaa ja pelottavaa viidakonasukin on sopeutua nyky-yhteiskuntaan. Koskettava tarina, tätä lukiessa teki monet kerrat mieli heittää kirja nurkkaan ja lohduttaa kirjoittajaa - niin yksin hän ongelmiensa kanssa oli.

[Natasa Tovornik]

I liked the first book the most. This one is also quite good, but there are a lot of things that were repeated from the other two. Still, an easy and enjoyable read.

[Anna Reta Maria]

A really good and fast read! I read it in one day which I usually don't do. After reading Kuegler's two earlier books, this really cleared some things up.

[Caro]

Amazing how the author is able to put her wild emotions and thoughts into writing. Very touching.

[Anne]

4 stars even though the writing style is not that great. but this is more than compensated by the story. read it in one go and now i wish that i have a similar book to read next.