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- English
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Meet Me in Buenos Aires
About this book
An intensely personal and revealing biography of life with one of the 20th Century's most influential intellectuals. A rich and fascinating life, from pre-war Vienna via an émigré childhood in the UK and on to Italy, the Congo and the US. At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history but was witness to it, from Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara's interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a Jazz journalist for the New Statesman. In later years he became a Companion of Honour. This is the story of his family life. Marlene Hobsbawm grew up in a comfortable middle class Jewish home in Vienna but that life was shattered by the rise of Nazism. Age five she fled the country with her family and settled in the UK. A talented linguist, Marlene worked post-war for the UN in Italy helping to rebuild the country then on to the war-torn Congo. Returning to the UK she met Eric Hobsbawm. This is the story of their rollercoster life together much of it spent under the scrutiny of M15.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction: Claire Tomalin
- 1: Vienna Beginnings
- 2: Wartime Children: The ĂmigrĂ© Child and my Education
- 3: Secondary School: Teens and Young Adults at Home
- 4: A Student in Paris
- 5: Working in London and Secretarial College
- 6: My Dolce Vita
- 7: The Congo
- 8: Back Home and CBC
- 9: Meeting Eric
- 10: Being Married
- 11: A New Family
- 12: Clapham, Part I Cottage in Wales and Massachusetts
- 13: Clapham, Part II Cambridge-in-the-hills and Schoolchildren
- 14: Our New House
- 15: Home, Sweet Home
- 16: Academia
- 17: Sabbatical in Latin America en famille
- 18: Bourgeois Life in the Seventies
- 19: Martinâs âAt Homesâ
- 20: My Music Career
- 21: Manhattan
- 22: Our Italy
- 23: Mature Lives
- 24: Age of Glory Travels
- 25: Hospital Years
- 26: Death
- 27: What Remains
- 28: Ericâs Legacy to Me
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Credits
- Plates
- Copyright