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The Speech

By: Gabrielle Gouch

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Inspired by the life of a real person, this is a story of brilliance and insanity and how one man’s fate impacts on three generations. A tale of love and loss set against the background of politics and the machinations of bureaucracy. Clara, a naïve young woman, leaves her native Amsterdam to live with Peter in Australia. They are happy, but slowly, imperceptibly, change creeps in. It builds up, their love turns to ruins. Separated and with a young daughter who adores her father, Clara is faced with agonizing choices. The contrast between her personal struggles and the concerns of the people around her – career bureaucrats who design services for the vulnerable – could not be more farcical. How does Clara navigate through her web of circumstance? What happens when her decisions escape from the personal and become wide-ranging?

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289

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Australian Self Publishing Group

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0645122866

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9780645122862

Once, Only the Swallows Were Free

A Memoir

By: Gabrielle Gouch

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Once, Only the Swallows Were Free

A Memoir

By: Gabrielle Gouch

Twenty-five years after Gabrielle Gouch left her native land, Transylvania, communism collapsed and the author returned to Romania from Australia to visit her half-brother Tom who told her stories about his life under communism. Though the story is factual, the author uses her strong eye for detail and the techniques of fiction to create this engaging and thought-provoking account about ordinary people in turbulent times. These sad and funny tales are interleaved with the story of the rest of the family from which Tom became estranged. This memoir portrays the exodus of Jewish families from Romania and their arrival in the Promised Land, a dream come true for some but a shock for others. It explores issues of identity, disability, emigration and family relationships against a background of the major political events of the time from a perspective that challenges some accepted views.

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321

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Hybrid Publishers

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1742983340

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9781742983349

Once, Only the Swallows Were Free

A Memoir

By: Gabrielle Gouch

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Once, Only the Swallows Were Free

A Memoir

By: Gabrielle Gouch

If you appreciated Anna Funder's Stasiland, you will find this first - hand account of life in communist Romania fascinating. What was it like to live and love in an atmosphere of mistrust and state paranoia? Twenty - five years after Gabrielle Gouch left her native land, Transylvania, communism collapsed and the author, now an Australian, returned to visit her half - brother Tom. The years of separation are difficult to erase, but he opens up eventually. In a cosy room with red Persian carpets and photographs of his mother, gentle Tom shares stories of his life, often funny, sometimes heartbreaking but never self - pitying. Though the story is factual, the author uses her strong eye for detail and the techniques of fiction to create this engaging and thought - provoking account about ordinary people in turbulent times. These sad and funny tales are interleaved with the story of the rest of the family from which Tom became estranged. This memoir portrays the exodus of Jewish families from Romania and their arrival in the Promised Land, a dream come true for some but a shock for others. It explores issues of identity, disability, emigration and family relationships against a background of the major political events of the time from a perspective that challenges some accepted views.

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424

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ReadHowYouWant

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1459680081

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9781459680081

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The Speech

The Speech

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Once, Only the Swallows Were Free

Once, Only the Swallows Were Free

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