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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. ' (Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
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Australia,c
:Pishukin Press
, 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.-
The Cuckoo's Song,
single work
short story
'Francesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.'
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Fragments,
single work
short story
'Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.'
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Friends Forever,
single work
short story
'Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two.'
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School of Hardknocks,
single work
short story
'Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life.'
- Woman on Fire, single work autobiography
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Dyslexic edition.
Last amended 9 Dec 2022 09:32:43
