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'Sometimes there may be more to things than meets the eye.
'Germany, 1933. Anna Winter returns home to find her father mysteriously disappeared and a note he’s left warning her of grave danger. She flees overnight, taking her precious doll collection with her, and sets sail for Australia to lose herself in the outback. She lands a job at the Birdum Hotel and carves a new life, hiding her past from the world – until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything.
'Australia, 1938. A Yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people. Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he manages his own escape from Europe and arrives in Australia in search of a safe place to call home. When fate leads him to Anna, he’s convinced he’s found his future with her. But a disturbing clue to her dark past threatens to unravel the delicate life she has built on top of the secrets left behind.
'Shifting in time and place, Doll’s Eye weaves an intriguing story of love, loss and survival against a backdrop of war and displacement. Evocative and compelling, it brings into question the gap between what we see, and what we don’t.' (Publication summary)
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Leah Kaminsky : Doll's Eye
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2023;
— Review of Doll's Eye 2023 single work novel 'Part literary romance, part cultural odyssey, Doll’s Eye is a lively challenge to the tropes of contemporary Australian Holocaust fiction.'(Introduction)
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Leah Kaminsky : Doll's Eye
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2023;
— Review of Doll's Eye 2023 single work novel 'Part literary romance, part cultural odyssey, Doll’s Eye is a lively challenge to the tropes of contemporary Australian Holocaust fiction.'(Introduction)
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cGermany,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cAustralia,c
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- 1938