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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 and Politics
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
Jewels and Ashes by Arnold Zable
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Another time, another place, another war, combining outstanding writing about travel, relations with parents and journey of historical discovery.
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: History and Politics
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
Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
We follow the lives of two brothers, who, as teenagers in the 1930s build a boat and ferry freight and passengers across the Ionian Sea until one brother leaves for Australia. We meet Antonios Lekatsas and learn of his partnership with architect Walter Burley Griffin to design some of Melbourne's most c ...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: 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: 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
Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisherman playing a flute on the banks of the Mekong, and Paganini in the borderlands of e ...Show more
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