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Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs

Jakob, Out of the Village

by (author) William Driedger

Publisher
Your Nickel's Worth Publishing
Initial publish date
Apr 2007
Category
Personal Memoirs, Mennonite, Religious
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781894431422
    Publish Date
    Jul 2012
    List Price
    $9.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894431132
    Publish Date
    Apr 2007
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

In the strict confines of a small Old Colony Mennonite community in rural Saskatchewan, the precociously observant Jakob Schellenberg, middle son of a God-fearing farming family, grows increasingly aware of the outside world from the pictures in the Eaton's catalogue, the weekly farm paper and the city folk who occasionally stop by and dazzle him with their shiny new cars, fancy clothes and perfume-scented skin.

Jakob's instinctive, exuberant response to the daily events of prairie life during the Dirty Thirties somehow holds him apart from both family and community, causing him to look further, to yearn for something more. His poignant, often humorous, coming-of-age leads him out of the village, only to discover that the village will be with him wherever he goes.

About the author

William Driedger (1922-2010) grew up in an Old Colony Mennonite village on the Canadian prairies during the '30s and '40s.

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