The fig tree

by Arnold Zable

Paper Book, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

304.8

Collection

Publication

Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2002.

Description

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, singers and poets.

User reviews

LibraryThing member siri51
A good bookclub discussion about migration (and family who stay behind) and descendants who revisit the homeland.
While not an exciting book it contained many evocative descriptions of people and places (eg. Ithaca)

Language

Physical description

222 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

1877008230 / 9781877008238

Local notes

Donated by Judith Wimborne February 2020
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