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Otherland
A Journey with My Daughter
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Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family's native country. For Maria the trip back is no simple stroll down memory lane.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE WINDHAM CAMPBELL RPIZE
Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart prize for non fiction and the Community Relations Commission Award in NSW and the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
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Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, the Community Relations Commission Award in NSW, and the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year.
I left too early, before tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and before Gorbachev was put under house arrest in a failed coup. I left before Russia and Ukraine became separate countries, before the KGB archives were opened, before the Russian version of Wheel of Fortune, before the word 'Gulag' appeared in textbooks.
I left before Chechnya, before the mass renaming of cities and streets, before you could go into a shop and actually purchase the books of Brodsky, Pasternak, and Nabokov. I left too early; I missed the whole point. I was not there when my generation was cornered by history.
Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family's native country. For Maria, the trip back is no simple stroll down memory lane. Splintered and scattered across the world, her generation has ended up inhabiting vastly different realities.
Along with exploring the political and cultural fallout of a century of turmoil, Otherland captures the profound personal journey of reconciling one's past with the present.
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Otherland by Maria Tumarkin is praised for its fascinating and exhilarating narrative, underpinned by insightful viewpoints and a touch of Russian humour. The book is noted for its literary beauty, showcasing multiple layers of memory and reflection, and serving as both a personal and historical commentary. It offers a unique blend of anecdotes and cultural insights, acting as a window to significant aspects of 20th-century history.
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ISBN: 9781741666793
Publisher: Random House Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2010
Country: Australia
Imprint: Vintage (Australia)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 162.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 414g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Born in 1974 in the former Soviet Union in a Russian Jewish family, which in 1989 immigrated to Australia. Maria has published two books, "Traumascapes" (2005) and "Courage" (2007). She lives in Melbourne with her two children and is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne on the international "Social Memory and Historical Justice" project.
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