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This novel suits readers interested in post-war migrant experiences, historical fiction, and character-driven stories exploring family and survival in a changing world.
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See moreIt's 1958 and Australia is becoming a different place. The Melbourne working-class suburb of Carlton is now home to many immigrant families trying to begin new lives and make sense of the old. This is a stunning evocation of a changing world, where optimism is tinged with sorrow at the raw memories of war.
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Romek and Zofia are trying to rebuild a life together, liberated from the shadow of the concentration camps. Merle Shanahan tiptoes around the volatile moods of her husband Miles. Mr Giancarlo, the aging patriarch, watches over the lives of his enormous family. Mr Sommers sits in silence on his verandah, smoking his pipe and remembering the Great War. Weintraub the communist sits in the bar and drinks whisky, all the while singing the Internationale under his breath. And Josh, Romek's twelve-year-old son, avoids local bullies, reads Jack London and tries to understand the world around him.
In the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton in the 1950s, half a dozen families are struggling to survive and begin new lives. With the same keen eye for the power of migrant stories he displayed in Cafi Scheherazade and The Fig Tree, Arnold Zable recreates a lost world and traces the paths of these lives. Scraps of Heaven is a meditation on, and a celebration of, the tales that form us, and it affirms Arnold Zable's status as a master storyteller.
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ISBN: 9781920885922
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 October 2005
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 17.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 193g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Arnold Zable is a highly acclaimed novelist, storyteller, educator and human rights advocate. His books include Jewels and Ashes, The Fig Tree, Cafe Scheherazade, Scraps of Heaven, Sea of Many Returns and Violin Lessons. He lives in Melbourne.
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