Immigration & Emigration - History, Australians & Pacific Islanders - Biography, Immigrants - Biography, Australian History - General & Miscellaneous, Australian History - Social Aspects, Immigration & Emigration - Oceania & Australasia
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Overview
Oma, the author's grandmother, is travelling to Australia as a displaced person after the Second World War, her journal full of sharp observations, uncertainty about the future and longing for her homeland Latvia. Her daughter Gunta, a gifted painter and passionate writer, refuses Australia, its landscapes, colours and forms, maintaining a fierce exile that ends only with her early death from cancer. Gunta's daughter Andra, bearer of family expectations and hopes, becomes bearer of ashes and new possibilities as she takes her mother home. Maija, Andra's daughter is travelling into her grief at Gunta's death and her own future as a visual artist.Book Details
Published
July 20, 2004
Publisher
Fremantle, W. Aust. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004.
Pages
255
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781920731380