Susan Midalia

An Unknown Sky and Other Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Susan Midalia's second collection of short stories offers us an compelling variety of characters, all of them 'travellers' in search of connection and belonging. Tourists in Moscow and Vienna confronted by the weight of history. A young student teacher discovering her capacity for compassion. A teenage boy defending his mother's reputation. A brother anguished by his sister's illness. An ageing widow infatuated with a troubled young man. Conflicts between the silent burdens of the past and the drama of everyday lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: UWA Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742584751
• Artikelnr.: 37971194

Autorenporträt

Susan Midalia is a writer and freelance editor who conducts workshops on short story writing. She grew up in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and has lived in Perth for most of her adult life. Her first short story collection, A History of the Beanbag and other stories, was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2007. Susan studied at the University of Western Australia and Cambridge University and holds a PhD in contemporary Australian women's fiction, and has also taught literature at secondary and tertiary levels over many years.