Amra Pajalic

The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin's Voices of Diversity, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning author Amra Pajalic showcases her gritty, poignant and sometimes bruising voice in this eclectic short story book of previously published and prize-winning stories. Featuring powerful and moving stories of family dissolution, deprivation of war, tenderness of family and the heart-rending experiences of mental illness. Thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, this collection will delight and entertain.

The Cuckoo's SongFrancesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.

FragmentsSeka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.

Friends ForeverTwo lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two.

School of HardknocksAmina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life.

Woman on FireA young girl lives with her mother's boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pishukin Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780645331004
• Artikelnr.: 63175518

Autorenporträt

Amra Pajalic is an Australian author of Bosnian background who has been traditionally published and is making her debut as an indie author with this short story collection. Her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her debut novel The Good Daughter (Text Publishing, 2009) won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award and she is co-editor of the anthology Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014) that was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards. Her short stories and non fiction articles and essays have been been published in anthologies, journals and shortlisted in writing competitions. She works as a high school teacher and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at La Trobe University.