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Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann; Arnold Zable (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees? Have our past responses bee ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Cafe Scheherazadeis a haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that they and their fellow storytellers have to offer: of Moshe stalking the st ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Xanthe is drawn to Ithaca, the birthplace of her father, Manoli, and her maternal grandfather, Mentor. She is translating Mentor's manuscript, his story of leaving Ithaca and his life in Australia - fleeing the Kalgoorlie riots, working in Melbourne coffee houses with his compatriots, studying in the St ...Show more
The Fig Tree by Arnold Zable
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the best-selling author of Cafe Scheherazade comes this tender book of haunting true stories, filled with memorable people. Zable writes about his own and his wife's family in Australia and Europe, about the lives of Jewish and Greek immigrants to Australia, about refugees and wanderers, actors, si ...Show more
The Fighter - A True Story by Arnold Zable
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen exudes vigour. His life force is strong. It ani ...Show more
The Glass Horse of Venice by Arnold Zable
$27.99 AUD
Category: Childrens Picture Books
A beautiful picture story book from beloved author Arnold Zable, The Glass Horse of Venice is an enchanting tale where glass animals come to life and a young girl travels the night sky on a winged horse. Each morning on her way to school Claudia passes the glassblower's workshop and admires the animals ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
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