| Description |
219 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Rosie Scott -- Introduction / Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle -- Once upon a strangers' city / Sophie Masson -- The path / Deepa Agarwal -- Morichjhãpi / Amitav Ghosh -- The sins of the mother / Jamil Ahmad -- Dera Baba Nanak / Joginder Paul -- Remembering TimorLeste / Susanne Gervay -- A wall of water / Michelle Cahill -- The dust of life / Arnold Zable -- Big fish / Anu Kumar -- Life hanging in the balance / Abdul Karim Hekmat -- Ariel's song / Sharon Rundle -- The lost kingdom / Meenakshi Bharat -- Without address, without name / Sujata Sankranti -- The ogre / Ali Alizadeh -- The limp / Bijoya Sawian -- A state of niceness / Tabish Khair -- Rose petal path / Andrew Y M Kwong -- My sister's sister / Julia Mackay-Koelen -- Karim / Linda Jaivin |
| Summary |
This book presents nineteen remarkable stories from acclaimed writers based in Australia and the Indian Subcontinent, which ruminate on the lives of refugees and asylum seekers all over the world. Powerful, poignant and sometimes funny, they tell the tales of brave people who, at great peril to their own safety, seek out a new life in a new land |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Subject |
Political refugees -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Political refugees -- India -- Fiction.
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Refugees -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Refugees -- Fiction.
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Refugees -- India -- Fiction.
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Short stories, Australian -- 21st century.
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Short stories, Indic (English) -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Author |
Bharat, Meenakshi, 1959- editor
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Rundle, Sharon, editor
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| LC no. |
2012358986 |
| ISBN |
0980863937 |
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9780980863932 (paperback) |
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