Summary
The past shapes the present—they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn’t live in little zoo enclosures. Half the time, this past is nothing less than the beating heart of the present. So, how to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past—ours, our family’s, our culture’s—wields in the present?
Stories are not enough, even though they are essential. And books a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761043581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761043587 |
| Author: | Maria Tumarkin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 136mm x 13mm |
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About The Author
Maria Tumarkin
Born in 1974 in the former Soviet Union in a Ukrainian-Jewish family, which in 1989 immigrated to Australia, Maria has published four books, Traumascapes, Courage, Otherland and most recently Axiomatic. All have received multiple award shortlistings. In 2020 Maria was awarded the prestigious Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She lives in Melbourne.
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