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The Fig Tree

by Arnold Zable

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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.… (more)
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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) ( )
  siri51 | Mar 23, 2017 |
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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.

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