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Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Cafe Scheherazadeis a haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that they and their fellow storytellers have to offer: of Moshe stalking the st ...Show more
Cafe Scheherazade: Text Classics by Arnold Zable
$12.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade. Thus begins Arnold Zable's haunting meditation on displacement, and the way the effects of war linger in the minds of its survivors. In this deeply moving book we meet Avram and Masha, proprietors of the cafe, and hear the tales that ...Show more
Jewels and Ashes by Arnold Zable
$26.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Another time, another place, another war, combining outstanding writing about travel, relations with parents and journey of historical discovery.
Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home by Mark Dapin (Contribution by); Diane Armstrong (Contribution by); Chris Flynn (Contribution by); Kent MacCarter; Maria Tumarkin (Contribution by); Meg Mundell (Contribution by); Paola Totaro (Contribution by); Catherine Rey (Contribution by); Ali Lemerm; Alison Lemer (Editor); Arnold Zable (Foreword by); Alice Pung (Contribution by); Danny Katz (Contribution by); Amy Espeseth (Contribution by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
These are stories about what they found, who they became and what they now think of Australia - stories that provide entertainment, perspective and cause to celebrate our increasingly diverse nation. This is an insightful, compelling and sometimes confronting collection for all Australians.Contributors ...Show more
Scraps Of Heaven by ZABLE Arnold
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
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. This is a stunning evocation of a changing world, where optimism is tinged with sorrow at the raw memories of w ...Show more
Sea of Many Returns by Arnold Zable
$23.95 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Xanthe is drawn to Ithaca, the birthplace of her father, Manoli, and her maternal grandfather, Mentor. She is translating Mentor's manuscript, his story of leaving Ithaca and his life in Australia - fleeing the Kalgoorlie riots, working in Melbourne coffee houses with his compatriots, studying in the St ...Show more
The Fig Tree by Arnold Zable
$23.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
From the best-selling author of Cafe Scheherazade comes this tender book of haunting true stories, filled with memorable people. Zable writes about his own and his wife's family in Australia and Europe, about the lives of Jewish and Greek immigrants to Australia, about refugees and wanderers, actors, si ...Show more
The Fighter - A True Story by Arnold Zable
$27.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
So it’s come to this. Sixty-seven years old and he labours on the docks. Cropped grey-white beard, ex-boxer’s pug nose, he is wiry, rotund and short. His strength is sensed rather than seen, belied by age and excess weight. Vigour is the word. Henry Nissen exudes vigour. His life force is strong. It ani ...Show more
The Glass Horse of Venice by Arnold Zable
$27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books Hard Back
A beautiful picture story book from beloved author Arnold Zable, The Glass Horse of Venice is an enchanting tale where glass animals come to life and a young girl travels the night sky on a winged horse. Each morning on her way to school Claudia passes the glassblower's workshop and admires the animals ...Show more
The Watermill by Arnold Zable
$32.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Ranging from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and Indigenous and present-day Melbourne, Arnold Zable's quartet of stories depicts the ebbs and flows of trauma and healing, memory and forgetting, the ancient and the contemporary. And ever- ...Show more
Violin Lessons by Arnold Zable
$29.95 AUD
Category: Short Stories
From the songs of Arab diva Umm Khultum on the banks of the Tigris to the strains of a young boy playing the violin for his mother in Melbourne, to the swing jazz of the nightclubs and cabarets of 1940s Baghdad, a fisherman playing a flute on the banks of the Mekong, and Paganini in the borderlands of e ...Show more