Vibrating with life and woven with evocative Arabic fables, these stories are about the differences between Lebanese and Australian culture: between parents and children, new lives and old. With warmth, humour and insight, Sallis s eloquent prose captures the pain as well as the joys of living in a new land.
Description
Zein, Farhan, Rayya and their circle are migrants of the fifties, yearning for both their future and their past. Their children, Salah, Rima, Hussein and their friends are young Australians with a distinctive voice and place, succeeding or failing in the clash between generations, struggling for independence in the face of their parents hopes and dreams. Abdal-Rahman is an Iraqi refugee who has lost everything. And Ali, Ahmad, Akram and Yusuf are children in Palestine and Baghdad who have no future but whose stories soar.
Mahjar is about lives, journeys and stories, about exile and the
experiences that push people to new homelands. Through interwoven
stories and fables, it evokes Australia s intimate connection with the
Middle East. as well as the joys of living in a new land.
Awards
Winner 2004: QLD Premier's Literary Award for the Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award.
Highly Commended 2004: Fellowship of Australian Writer's Christina Stead Award for Fiction.
About Eva Sallis
Eva Sallis was born in Bendigo. She has an MA in literature and a PhD in comparative literature from The University of Adelaide where she now teaches. She won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1997 for her first novel, Hiam. Her most recent novel is The City of Sealions which was published in 2002.
| ISBN: |
9781741140712
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| Australian Pub.: |
April 2003
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| Edition: |
1
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| Publisher: |
ALLEN & UNWIN
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| Imprint: |
ALLEN & UNWIN
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| Subject: |
Literary fiction
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| Edition Number: |
1
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