Andrea Goldsmith
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the 2015 Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award.
A novel about memory, music, friendship, family rifts and reconciliation, this is a beautiful, intelligent read.
Nina Jameson, an international consultant on memorial projects based in London, has been happily married to Daniel for twelve years. When her life falls apart she accepts a job in her hometown of Melbourne. There she joins her sister, Zoe, embroiled in her own problems
...Author
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It is the mid-1980s. In Australia, stay-at-home wives jostle with want-it-all feminists, while AIDS threatens the sexual freedom of everyone. On the other side of the world the Soviet Block is in turmoil. Gorbachev has been in power for a year when twenty-four-year-old book illustrator, Galina Kogan, leaves Leningrad - forbidden ever to return. As a Jew she's inherited several generations worth of Russia's chronic anti-Semitism. As a Soviet citizen...
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