The Cuckoo's Song
Author(s): Amra Pajalic (Original Author, Designed by, Cover Design by)
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. As well as suspenseful new thriller stories with a twist of vindictiveness and retribution, and love stories that make the heart sing, Pajalic will delight and entertain.
The Cuckoo's Song-Francesca is ten when a gypsy fortune-teller told her the day and the hour of her death and she has been waiting since.
Fragments-Seka and her brother forage for books in a bombed-out school in Srebrenica during the Balkan war.
Friends Forever-Two lifelong friends share a room at a nursing home, as well as a secret or two.
School of Hardknocks-Amina is a new high school student after migrating from Bosnia and struggles to acclimate to the Aussie way of life.
Woman on Fire-A young girl lives with her mother's boyfriend when her mentally ill mother is admitted into hospital.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Amra Pajalic
- : Pishukin Press
- : 213.0
- : 01 January 2022
- : 203mm x 127mm x 203mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Amra Pajalic (Original Author, Designed by, Cover Design by)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 220
- : FYB