Scraps of Heaven

Fiction & Literature, Literary
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Author: Arnold Zable ISBN: 9781921799471
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Publication: May 16, 2010
Imprint: Text Publishing Language: English
Author: Arnold Zable
ISBN: 9781921799471
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publication: May 16, 2010
Imprint: Text Publishing
Language: English

It's 1958 and Australia is becoming a different place. The Melbourne working-class suburb of Carlton is now home to many immigrant families trying to begin new lives and make sense of the old.

Romek and Zofia, liberated from the camps in Poland, work hard at the local market, but their love is in ruins. Bloomfield is king and custodian of Curtin; the resplendent Valerio, stylish and soccer-mad, has just arrived from Italy. Romek and Zofia's skinny twelve-year-old son Josh takes up boxing and becomes bewitched by the Swedish Girl. But Zofia is tormented, and as she falls further into madness, Josh wonders if she can ever be made whole again.

Scraps of Heaven is a stunning evocation of a changing world, where optimism is tinged with sorrow at the raw memories of war. Arnold Zable's irresistible storytelling becomes a celebration of survival, a reminder that scraps of heaven can be found everywhere.

'An affectionate recreation of the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1958, it is overflowing with authentic details.' Sydney Morning Herald

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It's 1958 and Australia is becoming a different place. The Melbourne working-class suburb of Carlton is now home to many immigrant families trying to begin new lives and make sense of the old.

Romek and Zofia, liberated from the camps in Poland, work hard at the local market, but their love is in ruins. Bloomfield is king and custodian of Curtin; the resplendent Valerio, stylish and soccer-mad, has just arrived from Italy. Romek and Zofia's skinny twelve-year-old son Josh takes up boxing and becomes bewitched by the Swedish Girl. But Zofia is tormented, and as she falls further into madness, Josh wonders if she can ever be made whole again.

Scraps of Heaven is a stunning evocation of a changing world, where optimism is tinged with sorrow at the raw memories of war. Arnold Zable's irresistible storytelling becomes a celebration of survival, a reminder that scraps of heaven can be found everywhere.

'An affectionate recreation of the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton in 1958, it is overflowing with authentic details.' Sydney Morning Herald

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