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Award-winning author Amra Pajalic showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain.
The Cuckoo's Song-Francesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.
Fragments-Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.
Friends Forever-Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two.
School of Hardknocks-Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life.
Woman on Fire-A young girl lives with her mother's boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:132 pages
- Publisher:Pishukin Press
- Publication Date:05/08/2022
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- ISBN:9781922871039
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:132 pages
- Publisher:Pishukin Press
- Publication Date:05/08/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781922871039
