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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: History
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: General
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
Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home by Mark Dapin (Contribution by); Diane Armstrong (Contribution by); Chris Flynn (Contribution by); Kent MacCarter; Maria Tumarkin (Contribution by); Meg Mundell (Contribution by); Paola Totaro (Contribution by); Catherine Rey (Contribution by); Ali Lemerm; Alison Lemer (Editor); Arnold Zable (Foreword by); Alice Pung (Contribution by); Danny Katz (Contribution by); Amy Espeseth (Contribution by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians.Contributors ...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 Watermill by Arnold Zable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
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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