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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Scraps of Heaven
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It's 1958 and Australia is becoming a different place. The Melbourne working-class suburb of Carlton is now home to many immigrant families trying to begin new lives and make sense of the old. Romek and Zofia, liberated from the camps in Poland, work hard at the local market, but their love is in ruins. Bloomfield is king and custodian of Curtin Square and is rarely absent from his post. The resplendent Valerio, stylish and soccer-mad, has just arrived from Italy. War veteran Mr Sommers sits alone on his verandah, while Yiddish actors gather at the barber's to reminisce and curse. Romek and Zofia's skinny twelve-year-old son Josh takes up boxing and becomes bewitched by the Swedish Girl. But Zofia is tormented, and as she falls further into madness, Josh wonders if she can ever be made whole again. (Publisher's blurb)

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  • Dedication: For asylum seekers and displaced peoples, who continue to risk perious journeys in search of new lives./And for the Wurundjeri, who have known the area we call 'Carlton' for millennia.

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  • Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 1958
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