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Issue Details: First known date: 1984... 1984 Silver City
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Set in a migrant camp during the years following World War II, a period when some four thousand Polish families came to Australia, the narrative focuses on Julian. Although married to Anna and with a son, he falls in love with Nina and she with him. As they and others face the new situations and prejudices that await immigrants and as they take on aspects of Australian culture, old-country values reassert themselves. Julian is eventually forced to make a decision between love and family.

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Works about this Work

Introduction : Displaced Women : Eastern European Post-War Narratives in Australia Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , October vol. 11 no. 4 2014; (p. 375-387)

This collection of essays resulted from a workshop convened at the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University in 2013. Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams writes that the event was organised in part to counter 'the under-representation of writers of Eastern European origin amongst Australian minority writers'.

Sophia Turkiewicz : Australianizing Poles, or 'Bloody Nuts and Bolts' Renata Murawska , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Diasporas of Australian Cinema 2009; (p. 137-146)
Silver City... Jan Goldie , 1990 single work column
— Appears in: Made in Australia : An Anthology of Writing 1990; (p. 60-61)
Sophia Turkiewicz : Australianizing Poles, or 'Bloody Nuts and Bolts' Renata Murawska , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Diasporas of Australian Cinema 2009; (p. 137-146)
Silver City... Jan Goldie , 1990 single work column
— Appears in: Made in Australia : An Anthology of Writing 1990; (p. 60-61)
Introduction : Displaced Women : Eastern European Post-War Narratives in Australia Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , October vol. 11 no. 4 2014; (p. 375-387)

This collection of essays resulted from a workshop convened at the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University in 2013. Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams writes that the event was organised in part to counter 'the under-representation of writers of Eastern European origin amongst Australian minority writers'.

Awards

1984 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Film
1984 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Screenplay Original
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